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mahnamahna rated No Bad Parts: 3 stars
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz Ph.D.
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind―and healing the many parts that make you who you are. …
mahnamahna rated 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10: 4 stars
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 by Nick Montfort
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.
This book takes a single …
mahnamahna rated The Quantum thief: 4 stars
The Quantum thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Jean Le Flambeur, #1)
A breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who …
mahnamahna rated Starter Villain: 3 stars
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there are the things you'd expect. …
mahnamahna rated Further Explorations: 5 stars
Further Explorations by Aaron A. Reed
Further Explorations: 50 Years of Text Games collects even more stories and history from the definitive look at interactive fiction’s …
mahnamahna rated Wild Massive: 2 stars
mahnamahna rated 50 Years of Text Games: 5 stars
50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A. Reed
Since a winter morning in 1971 when a teacher wheeled a teletype into his classroom to debut a game about …
mahnamahna rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 4 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick
If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the …
mahnamahna rated To Say Nothing of the Dog: 4 stars
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic …
mahnamahna rated Apple II Age: 3 stars
Apple II Age by Laine Nooney
Publisher’s description: An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from …
mahnamahna rated Prayer for the Crown-Shy: 2 stars
Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
mahnamahna rated Allow Me to Retort: 5 stars
Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal
An analysis of how diseased seeds grow crooked trees, with an emphasis on the Bill of Rights and the Supreme …
