The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

The best books that I read this year were Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (this book is about Theranos and is absolutely insane, it reads like a thriller) Educated by Tara Westover (this is a fascinating memoir about a woman who was raised by fundamentalists and "escaped" to BYU) The Undoing Proect by Michael Lewis (about the relationship between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and their research together) The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson (I love all of his books)

Isaac Asimov is one of the classics, of course. I'm particularly fond of the robot novels (all four of the Elijah Baley ones especially) and the entire Foundation series. Of course, you also can't miss the robot short stories. Oh, and The End of Eternity! At some point I found Charles Stross' Accelerando, which is freely available online (along with a bunch of other short stories), and found everything I've read (which is most of it at this point, I think) enjoyably fast-paced. In particular the Laundry series (of which I've bought every iteration as soon as they came out over the past few years) -- though arguably these maybe cross-over from SF into fantasy a bit -- and the Halting State trilogy.…

Re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson, because it's so god damn good. The Mandibles recently. It was okay. The economic ideas were interesting, but the story dragged. The Accusation by Bandi was good if you like North Korea stuff. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O - Was decent for a Stephenson novel, but definitely niche sci-fi/fantasy. The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse. Didn't like it. Really didn't like the ending.