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Head On - Book Review

Head On, by John Scalzi, is an SF/police novel and a sequel to Lock in. In Lock In, a disease (Haden) struck people around the world that makes them unable to move or communicate in any form. Someone develops hardware that enables people to access a VR world and command robots (there are actual diseases that cause this, but thankfully none are as widespread as in this series). The second volume, Head On, follows the same FBI agents as the first in a new case, involving a sport specially played by Haden robots. I liked it. It has a good flow, but seems to be a little too complicated. Overall I like it, but read the first book first.

Children of Time - Book Review

Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a wonderful, non-cliche SF novel. In the book, men have an empire with a few colonies, and is in the middle of an experiment to uplift monkeys in a terraformed world, by using virus to make them sentient within a few generations. Everything goes wrong, but not on the regular cliche way. Instead, we get an wonderful, creative description on how the uplifted society and individuals slowly evolve. All of which leads to a great ending. Really worthy of the awards it received.

Homo Deus - Book Review

Home Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by Yuval Noah Harari is a very interesting book that talks both about our future, and the past trends that made it and allows to imagine what our future would be like. It was full of insights  on how things are, and on the current state of the art tech and what it means for our future. Overall, very interesting, strongly recommended.