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Steve Krug. Fantastic book. Straightforward, entertaining, useful. Two thumbs up.

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John Scalzi. A very fast hard sci-fi read. Humans are colonizing the galaxy, in competition with hundreds of other species. The seemingly universally violent contact between species is carried out by soldiers who are largely retirees who have been given new bodies. Not bad in terms of characterization and interesting relationships, but a big thumbs [...]

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Justina Robson. An engaging read, with some surprising character sympathies.
What will happen as mechanical, electronic, and genetic enhancements to the human body and mind become more common? What kind of class and power struggles will arise? Natural History asks these questions on an earth of the future where "unenhanced" humans who have created the "forged," [...]

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