Children of Ruin is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. It follows another branch of the terraforming project that began in the first book. Interesting read with non-human intelligences which feels relevant because of all the recent AI buzz and the apparent imminence of…
Children of Time is a science fiction story about the evolution of intelligent spiders on a planet terraformed by humans. I found it enjoyable throughout but the ending is particularly beautiful. If you like the Three Body Problem or Greg Egan's "Diaspora", you'll love…
Historical fiction about von Neumann and AI. This felt different than other historical novels I've read because as far as I could tell, there was no fictional plotlines introduced to the history. The fictional bit is just the first-person narratives from people around von Neumann that never actually…