I recently decided to go back in time and re-read some science fiction that I enjoyed as a teenager. The author of interest is Jerry Pournelle. In my teens, I read a couple of the books he co-authored with Larry Niven: The Mote in God’s
I’ve gone through a period of reading some rather poorly-chosen books. After completing Toland’s biography of Hitler – a book I first read in high school during my first fascination with the second world war – I turned back to what I hoped would be
I interrupted my chain of thought on the philosophy of mathematics by reading some published material on that topic. I had “told myself” that I should avoid doing this, in the interest of keeping my thoughts fresh and free of any confusion that could come