Michael Busch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Busch

@r0toodle @mcnees Gary Paulsen published "Hatchet" in 1987. There were some sequels in the 1990s, which mutually contradict one another.

Michael Busch

@TsundokuPuzzle @ouranosaurus @alinapete Niven's politics are also on full display, along with Jerry Pournelle's, in their adaptation of Dante's "Inferno". The same is of course true of Dante's original. But neither of them write like Dante.

Michael Busch

@kevinwardrop @JamesGunn Charlie Jane Anders; Seanan McGuire; Naomi Novik; and I hear good things about Tracy Deonn's "Legendborn". Not N.K. Jemisin, because The Broken Earth already has an adaptation pending and the Fulcum is not a school. And that's just recent books.

Michael Busch

From this week's stack of children's books from @stpaullibrary: "Rockets: Defying Gravity", by Anne & Jerzy Drozd. Explaining rocketry with a cast of anthropomorphized animals. And with a foreward by @elakdawalla. Huh.

Michael Busch

I am working through Michael Byers' & Aaron Boley's new "Who Owns Outer Space" overview of space law: https://t.co/EomiiaNEkR . I am reminded that as well as lying a lot; Elon Musk demonstrates very little understanding of anything his businesses do.

Michael Busch

@davidgerard Stories may always be political, but the relevant modifier there would seem to be "badly written"? Then we may invoke Theodore Sturgeon and allow that for every Ursula K. Le Guin there are several James P. Hogans.

Michael Busch

@SarahTaber_bww For an asteroid impact hazard book, I recommend @listen2spacepod's "Asteroid Hunters" - https://t.co/SpcVvKpgcH (Professor Nugent also has a TED talk). See also Don Yeoman's more dramatically-titled "Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us".

Michael Busch

I notice a pattern to this podcast episode: Randall Munroe asks "what if language did X?" and the linguistics experts immediately have examples of times when a language does X. https://t.co/0jDqcRFh6a

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Michael Busch

@IBJIYONGI For non-fiction: Modibo Kadalie's "Intimate Direct Democracy", studying communities at Fort Mose and in the Great Dismal Swamp. And I am about to start @erikanesvold's "Off-Earth". For fiction: @SAChakrabooks's "The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi".

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Michael Busch

@TsundokuPuzzle @ouranosaurus @alinapete Niven's politics are also on full display, along with Jerry Pournelle's, in their adaptation of Dante's "Inferno". The same is of course true of Dante's original. But neither of them write like Dante.