Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Dec 30th, 2009 | Viewed 475 times
A very different book by Alastair Reynolds. In this book humans have long colonized our galaxy and split into many different sub-species and sub-civilizations. One such sub-civilization is the shatterlings. They are clones who’s purpose are to explore the galaxy. The particular faction we follow are all clones of a woman who’s childhood is one [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Dec 30th, 2009 | Viewed 487 times
Catching up on my book reviews, so here is yet another book I just read by Alastair Reynolds. This book is the continuation of the story in “Redemption Ark”. In that book we left a shipload of refugees on a habitable planet after fleeing from the Inhibitors, a machine intelligence who’s task is to prevent [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 728 times
Well, since I’m on a book review roll here, I might as well review another book I read this summer (mostly on the train to and from Oslo). “Pushing Ice” is one of the books by Alastair Reynolds who does not take place in the Revelation Space universe. It was published in 2005.
Summary: The story [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 594 times
Revelation Space is the first of (so far) five Sci-Fi books by Alastair Reynolds that take place in the same universe, but only book one (Revelation Space) and book three (Redemption Ark) are about the same people. Reynolds have also written several other Sci-Fi books in other variations of a future universe. Reynolds has a [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 583 times
I’m currently reading the “Altered Carbon” trilogy by Richard K. Morgan. (On the second book at the moment.) This is high quality Sci-Fi. Raw and brutal and yet it makes you wonder how the future of humanity will turn out.
In Morgan’s universe human consciousness is stored in a small chip at the back of the [...]
Posted in Books, Religion, Science on Jul 19th, 2009 | Viewed 407 times
The Bible Unearhed is a book written by the archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. It covers the historical parts of the old testament of the Bible and how it fits into the picture archaeology in the Middle East paints of its ancient history. Not surprisingly it turns out that most of the early [...]
Posted in Books on Jul 19th, 2009 | Viewed 378 times
Just gone through the Golden Compass trilogy by Philip Pullman on audiobook. Although these books are childrens books (or I’d say youth), they are still great reads for adults. Not at least because of his amusing and unusual nderlying philosophy about religion. In his world God is the villain and the fallen angels are the [...]