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This is an essential instrument to understand China, its people and its culture through its long history. Wood paints a grand portrait, aimed at showing how the history, especially in China, is deeply intertwined with cultural, natural and societal issues. Especially for a westerner, where we get few, if any, reviews of Chinese history in school, this book is an eye opener. Wood's style makes it almost a novel, although sustained by an authoritative historical methodology. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding what China is, and how it came to be the nation that it is today.

Scalzi's book starts from a well explored premise: the abundance of life in the universe makes its finite resources a scarce commodity, and therefore the space-faring species are engaged in battles to share them. The metaphor to the way humans must learn to share Earth's finite resources is obvious but not gratuitous. The interesting take is on what makes us human: what is the relationship between our consciousness, our experience, and our body? Well written and engaging, a bit too humorous at times, but nevertheless a very good read for lovers of SF.

Uno dei più bei libri di fantascienza, specie sul soggetto "viaggio nel tempo", che abbia mai letto. Non per niente Asimov è l'indiscusso maestro del genere. È quasi surreale pensare che ha più di 70 anni. Forse Asimov aveva accesso a qualche macchina del tempo per scrivere così bene del "futuro"...