Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of …
I've been looking forward to this one for quite some time.
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A health services researcher and educator from Sydney, Australia. I like imaginative fiction and a smattering of non-fiction, and I have a genuinely shameful number of unread books in my to-read pile. I'm also on Mastodon.
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66% complete! Ben Harris-Roxas has read 12 of 18 books.
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Ben Harris-Roxas started reading The Vorrh by B. Catling
"The Vorrh follows a brilliant cast of characters through a parallel Africa where fact, fiction, …
I read his book Hollow, which was a bizarre trip but one that's stuck with me. Wish me luck as I've bought the trilogy!
Ben Harris-Roxas finished reading The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In …
Ben Harris-Roxas finished reading Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
Complicated feelings about this one. I probably need time to digest before reviewing.
Holds up better than I'd guessed
4 stars
Ben Harris-Roxas finished reading Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle) by Robert Silverberg
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading The Write Structure
Ben Harris-Roxas rated Karachi Vice: 4 stars
Ben Harris-Roxas finished reading Karachi Vice by Samira Shackle
Ben Harris-Roxas stopped reading Weaponized by Neal L. Asher
A bright new future for humanity – or a dark and inescapable past.
With the …
Not for me. I have it 100 pages but it was like a poor, seventh-generation photocopy of his earlier work.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle) by Robert Silverberg
I found this in a secondhand bookstore on holidays recently, so I decided to re-read it 25+ years later. What a delight! The nineties are back, baby.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Weaponized by Neal L. Asher
Weaponized by Neal Asher
A bright new future for humanity – or a dark and inescapable past.
With the advent of new AI technology, …
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Karachi Vice by Samira Shackle
Reading it for nerd book group
Ben Harris-Roxas reviewed Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling
Brilliant and enduring
5 stars
Ben Harris-Roxas finished reading Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling
Brilliant, and I think of it every time I use Gemini and enter circumlunar space.