random books

Here is a series of books about clones by Steven L. Kent. A brief outline is that the government has invented clones to do the military dirty work. In the beginning a series of clones were built but later destroyed because they were too sentient. All these clones were destroyed except for Wayson Harris, the ultimate fighting machine. ‘The Clone Republic’ is the first book in the series.



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Here is another set of books worth a read. The late Robert Anton Wilson’s “ The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles.” A trilogy that was meant to be four books but Wilson died in 2007 before he could complete the series.


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Started listening to Ian W. Toll's Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942. Excellent content. It provides the most colorful and detailed description of the Pearl Harbor attack I have ever encountered. The prologue is also distinctive in that it reaches back to the Russo-Japanese War and Teddy Roosevelt's attitudes towards, and dealings with, Japan. This, the first of a trilogy about the Pacific War, also has an excellent narrator, Grover Gardner. He also did The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 and Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 are the 2nd and 3rd of that trilogy. I also enjoyed Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

Excellent writer, very engaging
 
Off the old bookshelf. Not bad, more a 'this is the future' story from a 1952 p.o.v. Easy to brush past things we take for granted that they certainly didn't at the time
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Author John Brunner

"The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.[1][2] It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool,[3] perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market."


Can't forget this one - About 35 years ago I was trading in used books when I stepped on a break in the sidewalk and twisted my ankle so bad I could hardly walk - Happened to have this book handy and I read it in one day !

Fascinating and ahead of its time - The World was controlled by what we now call the internet.
In this book the hero wins and the internet losses !
 
Here is a classic dystopian short novel that everyone should read and you can read it in a matter of hours.

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"A stunning and brilliantly realized future world in which individuality has been crushed is the theme of Ayn Rand's bestselling masterpiece, "Anthem." Rand presents her tale of a man who dares to make individual choices, to seek knowledge in a dark age, to love the woman of his choice. In a society in which people have no name, no independence, and no values, he is hunted for the unpardonable crime: having the courage to stand above the crowd. Introduction by Leonard Peikoff."
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A friend of mine lent this to me years ago. It touches on topics like artificial intelligence and god worship. There are additional sequels but I didn’t read those.


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Doesn't have the depth of 11/22/63 that I just read and I burned through this one quick. I remember the TV movie and would suggest it's best avoided. Liked the book though. May have to pick up The Stand again sometime soon - rather find the actual book I have here somewhere than Kindle.
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I ordered the hardcover copy of this book, The Electric State, and it arrived yesterday, containing excellent illustrations accompanying the text storyline, I have just begun reading it...

The Electric State is a striking and strangely compelling work of science fiction gothic. Providing a series of snapshots of an alternate Earth of yesteryear, it tells the story of how that world ended
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A runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
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I have a fascination with the Pacific theater of WW2. No idea why, past life maybe. What I do know is the Pearl Harbor - Coral Sea - Midway - Guadalcanal arc is so absolutely chock full of drama and suspense you couldn't write better fiction. At random I picked this one up and it flows nicely and gives great explanations of what's going on in readily understandable terms. Some are so detailed you tend to get confused by the density of the information.

I'd love to be a time traveler observer and witness some of the naval action standing next to Raizo Tanaka or Willis Lee, or sitting in the jungle at night gripping a rifle waiting on The Ichiki Detachment at Alligator Creek. It didn't actually have any alligators in it.

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Maybe a 5/5. AI bought it because the description say 'World War Z meets The Big Red One' and yup, that's about it. The author has an extensive military background and writes in incredible detail, and does so quite well. if they made it a movie it would be great, a real nail biter, but you'd have the plot figured out in the first five minutes. Quick read anyway and Kindle cheap.
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Just started listening to the audiobook version of The Serpent and the Rainbow , which argues for the reality of a certain type of mind controlled zombie produced through a exotic combination of organic substances plus cultural belief. Sounds great so far.
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Listening to an audiobook about the battle for Wake Island, and the aftermath. It's covered in every WW2 history, but Sloan goes into great detail, incorporating recollections from the Marines who lived through it.
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