A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World was really enjoyable. I haven’t run into a lot of people who’ve read it.
I also really liked Project Hail smart, which I quite popular but haven’t got any of my friends to read it so far.
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I *adored* The City that Would Eat the World by John Bierce. It’s about two women who live in a world where after anyone dies, they become a god, able to give minor powers and benefits to their followers. Centuries ago, an ordinary watchman died, and the god he became gave immortality to everyone who was on duty watching the city walls.
… It kind of spiraled from there. By the time the book starts, the city is basically an engine dedicated to expanding its walls— the more wall there is, the more wealthy citizens can “guard” it. One of the protagonists comes from the outside world that the city is swallowing. One is from the city, born and bred on its walls, and spends her job maintaining its ecosystems.
And then the two of them find an artifact that can kill gods— including, maybe, even the watchman god whose blessing drives the walls onward.
I love the worldbuilding. It’s such a loved in, well thought out world. The protagonists are great too- you learn more about them as you learn more about the city. The book’s not for everyone, but I really enjoyed it.
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The parrot’s theorem by Denis Guedj : When a family inherits a Parisian bookshop, they stumble upon a cryptic letter that sends them and their talking parrot on a globe-spanning quest to uncover the secrets of the greatest mathematical minds in history. It’s a mystery with elements of maths and travels.
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The Infernal Machine, about the movement of anarchism, the fight against oppressive industrialization and the billionaires of the time, and the modernization of the police force to deal with the “threat” of subversive politics.
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The Tunnel by Bernhard Kellermann
It was written in 1913 (so before WW1) and is about an engineer who wants to build a train tunnel between America and Europe so you travel faster between the continents. (Well, faster than by ship. Planes are not yet an option)
The book describes how the economy and society of the whole word changes because of this project. And the problems and their implications feel so realistic that I had to remind myself several times that this is a fiction book.
It was one of the most sold books in the begining of the 20th century and now almost nobody has heard of it
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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World was really enjoyable. I haven’t run into a lot of people who’ve read it.
I also really liked Project Hail smart, which I quite popular but haven’t got any of my friends to read it so far.
I *adored* The City that Would Eat the World by John Bierce. It’s about two women who live in a world where after anyone dies, they become a god, able to give minor powers and benefits to their followers. Centuries ago, an ordinary watchman died, and the god he became gave immortality to everyone who was on duty watching the city walls.
… It kind of spiraled from there. By the time the book starts, the city is basically an engine dedicated to expanding its walls— the more wall there is, the more wealthy citizens can “guard” it. One of the protagonists comes from the outside world that the city is swallowing. One is from the city, born and bred on its walls, and spends her job maintaining its ecosystems.
And then the two of them find an artifact that can kill gods— including, maybe, even the watchman god whose blessing drives the walls onward.
I love the worldbuilding. It’s such a loved in, well thought out world. The protagonists are great too- you learn more about them as you learn more about the city. The book’s not for everyone, but I really enjoyed it.
The parrot’s theorem by Denis Guedj : When a family inherits a Parisian bookshop, they stumble upon a cryptic letter that sends them and their talking parrot on a globe-spanning quest to uncover the secrets of the greatest mathematical minds in history. It’s a mystery with elements of maths and travels.
The Infernal Machine, about the movement of anarchism, the fight against oppressive industrialization and the billionaires of the time, and the modernization of the police force to deal with the “threat” of subversive politics.
The Tunnel by Bernhard Kellermann
It was written in 1913 (so before WW1) and is about an engineer who wants to build a train tunnel between America and Europe so you travel faster between the continents. (Well, faster than by ship. Planes are not yet an option)
The book describes how the economy and society of the whole word changes because of this project. And the problems and their implications feel so realistic that I had to remind myself several times that this is a fiction book.
It was one of the most sold books in the begining of the 20th century and now almost nobody has heard of it