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Luca

salga@bookwyrm.it

Registrato 4 mesi, 3 settimane fa

I love all literary genres, with a preference for quality fiction, sci-fi and history. I love technology, and I am old enough to remember how rosy the future looked when the Internet started becoming widespread, and the end of the cold war was at hand. I hope to be able to help new generations to go back to having a rosier look at the future, as I had the privilege of having when I was their age.

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Libri di Luca

Obiettivo di lettura 2025

90% completato! Luca ha letto 18 di 20 libri.

ha recensito Old Man's War di John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)

John Scalzi: Old Man's War (Paperback, 2007, Tor)

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about …

Interesting SF take on what makes us "human"

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.

Isaac Asimov: The End of Eternity (1955, Fawcett Crest)

Humanity has found the ultimate way to fix its own mistakes, make them never happen. …

A masterpiece from a master

I think this is by far the best piece of SF on the time travel subject that I have ever read. The philosophical questions that it addresses, not merely about the paradoxes of time travel, but more so about the relationship between need, risk and progress, are worth the read by themselves. The excellent writing, still incredibly fresh after more than 70 years, make it a masterpiece, almost suspended in a timeless world.