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Stories of Your Life and Others
“Chiang is the closest thing to a modern Jorge Luis Borges in melding high concepts with literature”
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Worm
Worm
“addictive superhero SF posing as fantasy; it is long, of consistently high quality”
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Star Maker
“Star Maker is one of the very few SF books that I'd place up there with Blindsight”
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
“This was really really good, as in, maybe the best book I've read that year.”
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
“Very good: much better than Jared Diamond's Collapse”
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The Wages of Destruction
“Nazi Germany's militarization based on debt induced competing arms races / instability”
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
“I enjoyed this tremendously for revealing a new world to me where I thought I already knew the lay of the land.”
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The Origins of Political Order
“It is, overall, an excellent book and one of the better ones on grand history I've read”
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The Discovery of France
“one forgets the underlying demonstration and just basks in the knowledge of how the past is a very foreign country”
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Bias in Mental Testing
“One of the classics in the field...hardly anything substantive I can object to”