What I've been reading

"City at the End of Time" by Greg Bear, as an audiobook. This is about people in the far-future and approximately present day dealing with the fact that the world "lines" are collapsing and the world is about to end. Bear is playing with the idea of multiple universes, and so it's fairly hard science fiction and yet has some fantastical and horror-like elements, too. I"m not surprised the author said he was influenced by Lovecraft. I would recommend this book highly and plan to seek out more by the author.

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"Figuring: The Joy of Numbers" by Shakuntala Devi. Devi is extremely well known in India and somewhat less so around the world as being the world's "fastest computer." This book is very accessible to the average reader and I think it should be shared more widely in math classes and with children who think they aren't good at math, because it makes it fun and interesting in a way that the average text book doesn't.

My full comments on both books here.