Book mini-review: "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By Samrat Man Singh in book review on 19 Dec 2024

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…

Book review: The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut

By Samrat Man Singh in book review on 23 Nov 2024

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…