What are you reading?

[billiebn151]

Harry Potter

[Genady]

Axler, Sheldon. Linear Algebra Done Right.

[exchemist]

Pickwick Papers and Dava Sobel’s biog of Marie Curie.

[TheVat]

Pathogenesis.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenesis:_A_history_of_the_world_in_eight_plagues

 

 

[Moontanman]

 I am rereading The Across Real Time series By Vernor Vinge 

[TheVat]

The bobbles?  I read the one (Marooned) that was serialized in Analog.  Good stuff.  

He died of Parkinson's last Spring, RIP.  I also liked A Fire Upon the Deep, in his Zones of Thought series.

A former GF met him at a sci-fi conference, apparently by means of squeezing through a crowd and under David Brin's armpit en route.  I cannot vouch for the veracity of this account.  

[Moontanman]

11 hours ago, TheVat said:

The bobbles?  I read the one (Marooned) that was serialized in Analog.  Good stuff.  

He died of Parkinson's last Spring, RIP.  I also liked A Fire Upon the Deep, in his Zones of Thought series.

A former GF met him at a sci-fi conference, apparently by means of squeezing through a crowd and under David Brin's armpit en route.  I cannot vouch for the veracity of this account.  

I thought the bobbles was a great plot idea as well, such a simple device to form a story around.