Saturday, December 16, 2017
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:@WilliamBaude: Book recommendations from me and my colleagues
Posted:Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:28:00 -0500
Every year, the Chicago faculty collects some of our favorite books of the year with recommendations for anybody who might be interested. This year, I had two:
Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
I am a sucker for time travel novels, but this excellent new caper is not an ordinary time travel book. It explores the surprising reason for witchcraft's demise, the dynamics of government bureaucracy, and the corruption of academia by the military industry complex. And yet it is light, funny, and not particularly mystical. If you've read the authors' work before, you might be able to guess how they pull this off. If not, now is the time to start.
I usually run out and buy any new Stphenson, but I haven't read his various co-written ones.
This one looks interesting.
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