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What is wrong with fiction?
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...there's too much fiction in the fiction.
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...there's too much fiction in the fiction.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:22 PM
What is wrong with fiction?
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...there's too much fiction in the fiction.
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...there's too much fiction in the fiction.
Book review: The Science of Story Telling by Will Storr
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How to tell stories that people want to read.
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How to tell stories that people want to read.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Book review: The Science of Story Telling by Will Storr
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How to tell stories that people want to read.
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How to tell stories that people want to read.
Book review: The Cat who Saved Books
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More kawaii cat stories, comes with depression and abuse of books.
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More kawaii cat stories, comes with depression and abuse of books.
Book review: The Cat who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa | Neil Hopcroft
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January 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Book review: The Cat who Saved Books
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More kawaii cat stories, comes with depression and abuse of books.
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More kawaii cat stories, comes with depression and abuse of books.
Book review: All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
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Some more so than others.
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Some more so than others.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Book review: All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
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Some more so than others.
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Some more so than others.
Book review: Idoru by William Gibson
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Coming of age in a cyberpunk future.
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Coming of age in a cyberpunk future.
Book review: Idoru by William Gibson | Neil Hopcroft
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January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Book review: Idoru by William Gibson
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Coming of age in a cyberpunk future.
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Coming of age in a cyberpunk future.
While everyone else is thinking about the new year, I'm thinking about books:
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The best and the worst.
Happy new year.
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The best and the worst.
Happy new year.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
While everyone else is thinking about the new year, I'm thinking about books:
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The best and the worst.
Happy new year.
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The best and the worst.
Happy new year.
Book review: Jet Man by Duncan Campbell-Smith
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How we got the jet engine.
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How we got the jet engine.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Book review: Jet Man by Duncan Campbell-Smith
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How we got the jet engine.
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How we got the jet engine.
Book review: Islands of Abandonment - Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
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Reclamation by nature
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Reclamation by nature
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Book review: Islands of Abandonment - Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
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Reclamation by nature
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Reclamation by nature
Book review: We'll Prescribe you Another Cat by Syou Ishida
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More kawaii prescriptions from the elusive Nakagyu Kokoro Clinic for the Soul
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More kawaii prescriptions from the elusive Nakagyu Kokoro Clinic for the Soul
Book review: We’ll Prescribe you Another Cat by Syou Ishida | Neil Hopcroft
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November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Book review: We'll Prescribe you Another Cat by Syou Ishida
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More kawaii prescriptions from the elusive Nakagyu Kokoro Clinic for the Soul
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More kawaii prescriptions from the elusive Nakagyu Kokoro Clinic for the Soul
Book review: Spacefarers by Christopher Wanjek
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Getting out of our gravity well.
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Getting out of our gravity well.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Book review: Spacefarers by Christopher Wanjek
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Getting out of our gravity well.
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Getting out of our gravity well.
Book review: John Dies at the End by David Wong
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I don't want to let go of this mad universe.
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I don't want to let go of this mad universe.
Book review: John Dies at the End by David Wong | Neil Hopcroft
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November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Book review: John Dies at the End by David Wong
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I don't want to let go of this mad universe.
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I don't want to let go of this mad universe.
Book review: Ripples in the Chronostream
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No blueprints for the tardis contained within.
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No blueprints for the tardis contained within.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Book review: Ripples in the Chronostream
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No blueprints for the tardis contained within.
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No blueprints for the tardis contained within.
Book review: Why Planes Crash by David Soucie and Ozzie Cheek
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Searching for the root cause of air disasters.
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Searching for the root cause of air disasters.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Book review: Why Planes Crash by David Soucie and Ozzie Cheek
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Searching for the root cause of air disasters.
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Searching for the root cause of air disasters.
Book review: Healing Hands by J Bernard Hutton
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A tale of a spirit doctor and his medium.
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A tale of a spirit doctor and his medium.
Book review: Healing Hands by J Bernard Hutton | Neil Hopcroft
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October 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Book review: Healing Hands by J Bernard Hutton
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A tale of a spirit doctor and his medium.
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A tale of a spirit doctor and his medium.
Book review: Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz
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Light the candle, roll the dice, hold your breath and pray - what the space race was really made of.
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Light the candle, roll the dice, hold your breath and pray - what the space race was really made of.
Book review: Failure is not an Option | Neil Hopcroft
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October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Book review: Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz
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Light the candle, roll the dice, hold your breath and pray - what the space race was really made of.
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Light the candle, roll the dice, hold your breath and pray - what the space race was really made of.
Book review: The Island House by Mary Considine
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Don't give up everything to live on an island without reading this book first.
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Don't give up everything to live on an island without reading this book first.
Book Review: The Island House by Mary Considine | Neil Hopcroft
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September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Book review: The Island House by Mary Considine
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Don't give up everything to live on an island without reading this book first.
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Don't give up everything to live on an island without reading this book first.
Book Review: Bracing for Impact, true tales of Air Disasters and the People who Survived them
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Harrowing, as you might expect.
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Harrowing, as you might expect.
Book review: Bracing for Impact | Neil Hopcroft
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August 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Book Review: Bracing for Impact, true tales of Air Disasters and the People who Survived them
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Harrowing, as you might expect.
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Harrowing, as you might expect.
Book Review: A Fools Wisdom by Steven Young
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A fools wisdom indeed. The least science-y science book I've ever read.
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A fools wisdom indeed. The least science-y science book I've ever read.
Book review: A Fools Wisdom by Steven Young | Neil Hopcroft
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August 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Book Review: A Fools Wisdom by Steven Young
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A fools wisdom indeed. The least science-y science book I've ever read.
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A fools wisdom indeed. The least science-y science book I've ever read.
Book review: We'll Prescribe you a Cat by Syou Ishida
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Mysterious doctor prescribes cats with good results.
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Mysterious doctor prescribes cats with good results.
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August 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Book review: We'll Prescribe you a Cat by Syou Ishida
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Mysterious doctor prescribes cats with good results.
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Mysterious doctor prescribes cats with good results.
Book review: Ignition by John Drury Clark
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Directed pyromania masquerading as science
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Directed pyromania masquerading as science
Book review: Ignition by John Drury Clark | Neil Hopcroft
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July 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Book review: Ignition by John Drury Clark
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Directed pyromania masquerading as science
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Directed pyromania masquerading as science
Book review: Virtual Light by William Gibson
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She stole some glasses because someone annoyed her and spent the rest of the book regretting it.
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She stole some glasses because someone annoyed her and spent the rest of the book regretting it.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Book review: Virtual Light by William Gibson
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She stole some glasses because someone annoyed her and spent the rest of the book regretting it.
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She stole some glasses because someone annoyed her and spent the rest of the book regretting it.
Book review: Skunkworks by Ben R Rich
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How to make a stealth aircraft without being bogged down in paperwork.
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How to make a stealth aircraft without being bogged down in paperwork.
Book review: Skunkworks by Ben R Rich | Neil Hopcroft
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July 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Book review: Skunkworks by Ben R Rich
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How to make a stealth aircraft without being bogged down in paperwork.
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How to make a stealth aircraft without being bogged down in paperwork.
Book review: Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero by Bianca Nogrady
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Plenty of facts, not much character.
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Plenty of facts, not much character.
Book review: Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero | Neil Hopcroft
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July 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Book review: Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero by Bianca Nogrady
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Plenty of facts, not much character.
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Plenty of facts, not much character.
Book review: The Cat with Three Passports by CJ Fentiman
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English couple move to Japan, accidentally inherit four cats and plan their escape with one of them.
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English couple move to Japan, accidentally inherit four cats and plan their escape with one of them.
Book review: The Cat with Three Passports | Neil Hopcroft
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June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Book review: The Cat with Three Passports by CJ Fentiman
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English couple move to Japan, accidentally inherit four cats and plan their escape with one of them.
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English couple move to Japan, accidentally inherit four cats and plan their escape with one of them.
Book review: The Broken Rung
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I was looking for a management/business book written by a woman. This was not the book I was looking for, I'm not sure the book I'm looking for exists - I want the book that tells me what I (as a white male) can do to help.
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I was looking for a management/business book written by a woman. This was not the book I was looking for, I'm not sure the book I'm looking for exists - I want the book that tells me what I (as a white male) can do to help.
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May 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Book review: The Broken Rung
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I was looking for a management/business book written by a woman. This was not the book I was looking for, I'm not sure the book I'm looking for exists - I want the book that tells me what I (as a white male) can do to help.
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I was looking for a management/business book written by a woman. This was not the book I was looking for, I'm not sure the book I'm looking for exists - I want the book that tells me what I (as a white male) can do to help.