My Brother's Keeper by Charles Sheffield

I am going through the Sheffield books I missed when they came out.  Despite its age, this one is still not bad, 3/5 stars.

Polysporangiophyten

Not bad, 3/5 stars

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Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

Pretty good, but way too much romance and sex, 3/5 stars.

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Triggers, Mission 1, basiert auf der Hörspielserie "Generation 6″ von Erik Albrodt

High-quality community created fan fiction radio show, gripping, great acting, 3/5 stars.

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Zu spät für Paris - Kriminalhörspiel von Christian Nowack

​Rare treat from 1990 newly-reunified Germany, 4/5 stars.

12 Rules for Life by Jordan B Peterson

Too much Christian dogma and 20th century pseudo-science Psychology; occasional flashes of evidence-based and numerical reasoning at the beginning and towards the end.  2/5 stars, not worth the time.

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Transcendence by Charles Sheffield

Great conclusion, 5/5 stars.

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Brief Candle in the Dark by Richard Dawkins

One of my favorite nieces (definitely the nicest) gave me a signed first edition hardback of:

this new volume of Dawkins' autobiography as he galavants in prose and rants about his contributions to biology.  Dawkins is a fantastic writer and his first book changed my life in 1977.  He has become pedantic, shrill, and pretentious as he goes through his seventh decade. And his atheism activism never interested me that much.  Still, his writing is delicious and fun so I do recommend it, 3/5 stars.

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Site of Proteus by Charles Sheffield

I am rediscovering Charles Sheffield's books.  Fantastic but a little dated 4/5 stars.

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Everybody Lies by Seth Davidowitz

​I head extremely high expectations and loved learning all the counter-intuitive results.  I especially loved the abstractions and catalog of important, relevant areas that better analysis will unlock about the "softer" sciences (psychology, sociology, politics).  I did not like the ending and sometimes the humor fell flat.  4/5 Stars.  Very fun book.