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Olga Werby
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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Harvest
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2019
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Becoming Animals
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The Fatoff Conspiracy
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2015
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God of Small Affairs
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2019
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Twin Time
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2016
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Pigeon (The Ornis Experiment #1)
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2015
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Suddenly, Paris (Many Worlds, One Life #1)
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Lizard Girl & Ghost
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Good Girl
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Mirror Shards
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Inventors and Inventions
Inventors and their inventions are never divorced from the cultures and problems they were trying to solve. Both inventors and their creations are shaped by their environments. It’s not a surprise that seemingly identical inventions pop up almost simullataniously around the world. The ideas “come to mind” at the same moments in human history, driven by similar cultural pressures and similar proble
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| A thoughtful discussion about history, politics, and AI. Harari gives lots of examples and scenarios of human interactions and group dynamics and how the introduction of AI may influence those. Leaves lots of room for thought. I'd give it 4.5 stars. ...more | |
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| I really liked this book...but I wished it was a bit better (4.5 stars). The idea of actually taking time out of normal stream of life to deal with one’s issues is intriguing. Everyone needs such sidelines from time to time, but most of us don’t have ...more | |
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| I’m might be a bit late to this story, but I was busy 23 years ago when it came out. This story was an interesting take on love as fate. This is also an unusual take on sci-fi time travel trope -- it was about human relationships, not tech. I find th ...more | |
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It's hard to call a chronicled life of an immortal a "coming age" story, but this is what it felt like reading about Circe, the famed witch of Aiaia. It takes most of us decades to figure out who we, why should it be different for a god? For those wh ...more |
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| This is a first contact story, and as such, it explores communication barriers between two very different species that evolved on different planets, with different DNA, with vastly different biological morphologies, and different languages. When such ...more | |
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| The premise is intriguing and leads to many different possibilities. But the story, ultimately, didn’t take the full advantage of idea and ended up losing its way scientifically, turning into a travelogue, and getting preachy. But such a fun premise. ...more | |
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“Societies continuously try to recreate themselves — shared holidays, shared news, shared traditions, shared language, shared music, shared myths, shared victories, and shared griefs. Shared origins… So by telling each other stories, we recreate ourselves over and over again. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Who are our heroes? Who are the villains? These stories pass our values as a society from one generation to the next. It’s how we understand each other.”
― Twin Time
― Twin Time
“Short stories are very different from novel-length works. From the structure point of view, there are fewer characters, no subplots, and a lot less description of the setting and the characters populating the story. A short story simply doesn’t have room for world building… obviously. You grab the story with the first few words and don’t let go or digress for a minute. There is no room for exposition… or pretty descriptions of fashion or cool explanations of scientific principles on which the story is based or commentary of how computer interfaces changed in the future. A novel has room to think, to orchestrate multiple melodies on a theme, whereas a short story is a driven commentary on a single cord.”
― Twin Time
― Twin Time
“Our memories are not static. Each time we reach for one, we refresh and form new neuron connections, in fact changing the memory itself via our contemplation of it. Like Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle — we can observe a particle’s momentum or its position but not both simultaneously — each time we recall a particular event, we change it due to that recollection. After the mental touch, the memory is no longer the same. And this is true not just in some metaphorical sense, but in a real, tangible, physical way — the act of recall alters the neuron structures forever! And yet we eagerly recollect our favorite memories, and we just as eagerly try to forget the painful ones (and the very act of thinking of those painful memories makes them that much stronger, that much more connected and integrated into our neural memory networks).”
― Becoming Animals
― Becoming Animals
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“Having had some experience as a sci-fi writer myself, I found Suddenly Paris to be a very nicely written, YA Sci-Fi novel that turns the story of THE MATRIX on its head. It explores the following question. What if, instead of being people trapped in a synthesized dream world, we only think we are real? The ethical and existential questions that go along with computer generated characters inside a simulation acquiring self-awareness without an awareness that they are living in a simulated world are dealt with in a very entertaining story. Enjoy.”
― The Second Ship
― The Second Ship
“When I think of cyberpunk, I inevitably relive in my mind the awesomeness that was William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk masterpiece, Neuromancer. That book changed the way I looked at science fiction and revitalized the promise it held to the world. Lizard Girl & Ghost comes as close to that experience and that promise as anything I've read since.”
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“Becoming Animals" is a very interesting, enjoyable, and thought-provoking read; a brilliant addition to the libraries of science fiction and fantasy fans, as well as anyone who simply enjoys a good story.”
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“Harvest" is a deep and meaningful exploration of the complexities regarding the origins of the human race as well as the intentions of an alien species.”
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