Musings of a Babylon Lurker

More Books I Intend to Read

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 | books, science, scifi, space

I just started reading Dan Simmon’s book “Hyperion”, and I still have along way to go. I think it is interesting enough for me to read all the way through, though I am going at a slow and steady pace.

Listening to the podcast ‘Dragonpage Cover to Cover‘ I was listening to their Library segment. This is one of the few cases where I felt the enthusiasm for a book so contagious that I went to order it immediately.

The book in question is Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Galileo’s Dream”. The theme of Galileo having a peep into the future he, along with other great scientists created the basis for, is intriguing to me.

As a final note, here is a quote attributed to Galileo Galilei :

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Tags: Galileo, Hyperion

4 Comments to More Books I Intend to Read

Hakan
2011/01/20

Hi Jan, After you finish it, head over to good old Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas and listen to their first show ever!

http://www.kickassmysticninjas.com/2005/10/16/show-1-hyperion/

lurker
2011/01/21

Hi Hakan,

I think I will,.

Please don’t get me hooked on yet another podcast. Got too many already.

Compound Fracture
2011/02/27

Hey B-Lurk! Looking forward to that blogging we discussed over at the other place.

lurker
2011/02/27

Welcome CF, to my blog

You shall be welcome to comment on anything I wrote here

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