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Stanislaw Lem Dead
Published on 27 Mar 2006 at 4:15 pm.
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It’s a sad day for sci-fi fans - Polish author Stanislaw Lem has died.
He’s probably best known for Solaris, a great book that spawned not one but two unwatchable movies. (Lem himself called the Tarkovsky version “Crime and Punishment in space”.)
I first came across his works in one of my favorite books: the Mind’s I […]
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Published on 22 Sep 2005 at 8:50 am.
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising is along the same lines as the popular Worst Case Scenario series. I like this one better though, because a) it is written by an actual roboticist, and b) there are interesting stories of actual robotics scattered throughout the survival advice.
This book gives you the know-how to defeat all […]