Boris Cherny: evaluation

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…I love this. A never before mentioned book. My favorite. Oh, amazing. Amazing. Okay. Second one is Accelerando by Stross. My big genre is sci-fi. Probably sci-fi and fiction. Accelerando is just this incredible book. And it's just so fast-paced. The pace gets faster and faster and faster. And I just feel like it captures the essence of this moment that we're in more than any other book that I've read, just the speed of it. And it starts as a lift-off is starting to happening, and is starting to approach the singularity. And it ends with this collective lobster consciousness orbiting Jupiter. And this happens over the span of a few decades or something. So, the pace is just incredible. I really love it. Maybe I'll do one more book. The Wandering Earth. Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin. So, he's the guy that did Three Body Problem. I think a lot of people know him for that. Actually I think Three Body Problem was awesome, but I actually liked his short stories even more. So, Wandering Earth is one of the short story collections, and he just has some really, really amazing stories. And it's also just quite interesting to see Chinese sci-fi, because it has a very different perspective than western sci-fi, and the way that, at least, he, as a writer, thinks about it. So, it's just really, really interesting to read, and just beautifully written. It's so interesting how sci-fi has prepared us to think about where things are going. It creates these [inaudible 01:18:21] models of like, "Okay. I see. I've read about this sort of world."…

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