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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28 (discuss.online)

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Back to reading Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series). Only read couple of pages, but things are setting down so should be getting back to reading more.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Reading The Fall by Neal Stephenson. It's a sequel to REAMDE, which I really enjoyed reading for the second time this year—the first time being eight years ago (I think?). So far, The Fall is exploring a lot of the same concepts as the animated series Pantheon: life after death, uploaded consciousness (or intelligence), physical reality vs perceived, immortality. The series started production in 2018, and the book was published in 2019; these ideas must have been in the zeitgeist I guess.

Considering the genre of the first book (MMORPG hacker spy international criminals thriller), I'm really surprised Stephenson was able to adapt and develop these characters into a story with this kind of theme. Digging it.