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<div>On the topic of recommended reading: <br></div><div><br></div><div><span>Nudist On The Late Shift & Other True Tales by Po Bronson</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Bronson collected many true anecdotes of life in Silicon Valley and wove them into a great read. My wife read it and kept prompting me to read it. Once I started, I couldn't put it down.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Another book by the same author is "The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest". This is a novel, but it captures the feeling and manipulations of high tech companies. <br></span></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, April 26, 2019, 10:20:31 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> -----<br><br>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:16:24 -0700<br>From: Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:skeptic@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">skeptic@linuxmafia.com</a><br>Subject: [skeptic] The Expanse volume 8 (penultimate volume), 'Tiamat's Wrath'<br><br>Last night, I finished the last-but-one novel in James S.A. Corey's _The<br>Expanse_ series, _Tiamat's Wrath_ -- and can say it's a winner. Eva<br>raised the question of this current space-opera science fiction series<br>earlier, and got recommendations from several people including me. <br><br>Overall series description:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_</a>(novel_series)#Plot<br><br>One problem is that you cannot really consider the eighth novel in a<br>nine-novel series as if it were a separate work, and this one is a case<br>in point. I can say that the plot lines came together extremely well<br>with quite a few very impressive set-pieces -- while setting up an 'Oh<br>my god' climax for the as-yet-unnamed concluding volume (#9).<br><br>Here's a review that covers volume #8 pretty well without spoilers:<br><a href="https://theillustratedpage.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/review-of-tiamats-wrath-by-james-s-a-corey/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theillustratedpage.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/review-of-tiamats-wrath-by-james-s-a-corey/</a><br><br>For completists, a timeline-based reading order (including short stories<br>that are available online).<br><br>Volume Type Title<br>0.1 Story Drive<br>0.2 Story The Churn<br>0.3 Story The Butcher of Anderson Station<br>1 Novel Leviathan Wakes<br>2 Novel Caliban's War<br>2.1 Story Gods of Risk<br>3 Novel Abaddon's Gate<br>3.1 Story The Vital Abyss<br>3.2 Story Strange Dogs<br>4 Novel Cibola Burn<br>5 Novel Nemesis Games<br>6 Novel Babylon's Ashes<br>7 Novel Persepolis Rising<br>8 Novel Tiamat's Wrath<br>9 Novel [not yet named, and no release date yet]<br><br>_Tiamat's Wrath_ took the co-authors (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck,<br>writing as 'James S.A. Corey') a bit under two years, until it was<br>released a month ago, so we'll all probably need to wait until 2021<br>for volume #9. Dammit.<br><br>I'll be _very_ impatiently waiting for it.<br><br>-- <br>Cheers, "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; <br>Rick Moen I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."<br><a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a> -- A. Whitney Brown<br>McQ! (4x80) <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>skeptic mailing list<br><a href="mailto:skeptic@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">skeptic@linuxmafia.com</a><br><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic</a><br>To reach the listadmin, mail <a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a> <br><br>----- End forwarded message -----<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>conspire mailing list<br><a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br></div>
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