Michael Chorost Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Writer and technofuturist. Author of WORLD WIDE MIND and REBUILT, and a third book in progress. I'm refreshingly deaf, but hear with two cochlear implants.
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Stuart StevensMichael Chorost@suzost Excellent thinking. Turn off Fox. Better yet, turn off the TV entirely and try reading a few books by people who have figured things out. "It Was All A Lie" by Stuart Stevens might be a good place to begin.
Paperback, 2021
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Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
Ian MorrisMichael Chorost@ltelkins Basically all of it. Agriculture, energy production, knowledge production, transportation, and more. Ian Morris has an excellent discussion of these kind of hockey-stick graphs in WHY THE WEST RULES--FOR NOW, chapter 3.
Paperback, 2011
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Physics and Metaphysics: Theories of Space and Time
Jennifer TrustedMichael Chorost@FreelanceAstro Just read your @sciam story “The Origins of Space and Time” (Feb ‘22). So well written and accessible. You anticipated the questions a layperson would ask and skillfully answered them. One of the few articles on this topic that I actually understood! Many thanks.
Paperback, 2014
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The Martian
Andy WeirMichael Chorost@elakdawalla I had a lot of fun listening to the Audible versions of Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY and Michael Chabon's THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY. Both are very well performed. Weir, as in THE MARTIAN, is exceedingly clever at setting up and solving problems.
Paperback, 2014
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Big Bang: Imagining the Universe
Thomas HertogMichael Chorost@sanjanacurtis I would agree with @hahnscratch—physics does have an aura of revelation, though of course it’s based on reason. I’m reading Thomas Hertog’s book on the Big Bang and now I sorta understand how when the Higgs field became nonzero, boom the origin of mass. Whoa.
Hardcover, 2022
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Project Hail Mary
Andy WeirMichael Chorost@elakdawalla I had a lot of fun listening to the Audible versions of Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY and Michael Chabon's THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY. Both are very well performed. Weir, as in THE MARTIAN, is exceedingly clever at setting up and solving problems.
Paperback, 2022
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Michael Chabon's the Escapist: Amazing Adventures
Michael ChabonMichael Chorost@elakdawalla I had a lot of fun listening to the Audible versions of Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY and Michael Chabon's THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY. Both are very well performed. Weir, as in THE MARTIAN, is exceedingly clever at setting up and solving problems.
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