I haven't really enjoyed Ballard's novels, but his short stories fall somewhere between Phllip K. Dick and Bradbury & Asimov.
He is also a fan (as am I) of using a $10 word where a $1 word would have sufficed.
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12% complete! Ian Brown has read 3 of 24 books.
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Ian Brown finished reading The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard
Ian Brown started reading The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard
SS-GB by Len Deighton
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at …
Ian Brown finished reading SS-GB by Len Deighton
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, …
In the end, everyone just goes along.
Ian Brown rated Cheap Land Colorado: 4 stars
Ian Brown set a goal to read 24 books in 2025
Ian Brown finished reading Cheap Land Colorado by Ted Conover
A pretty nuanced and literate take on the off-the-grid culture of Colorado's San Luis valley. Also it has a brief appearance by a Juggalo!
Ian Brown finished reading Programming Heterogeneous Hardware via Managed Runtime Systems by Juan Fumero
Finally found the downtime to complete this fantastic survey of managed runtimes (e.g. the JVM) and heterogeneous hardware (e.g. CPUs and GPUs or FPGAs) by @snatverk@mastodon.online, @thanos_str@mastodon.sdf.org, and @kotselidis@mastodon.online.
Required reading for those who want a look at the future of software development.
Ian Brown started reading SS-GB by Len Deighton
SS-GB by Len Deighton
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at …
Ian Brown started reading Cheap Land Colorado by Ted Conover
Ian Brown started reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Ian Brown finished reading Character Limit by Kate Conger
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the …
A pretty good account, though it focuses on much of the high-level C-suite shenanigans as opposed to Zöe Schaffer’s excellent, employee-focused "Hardcore Engineering". Worth a read for sure.
Ian Brown started reading Character Limit by Kate Conger
Character Limit by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and …
Ian Brown rated A View from the Stars: 3 stars
A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times …