I’m a fan of David Walton and his near-term sci-fi books. In 2015, I read a few of his books, wrote a post titled Awesome Near Term Sci-Fi – David Walton , and promptly forgot about him. Eleven days ago, I got the following email from David. Mr. Feld: Since you’ve enjoyed my books in the past (e.g. Superposition), I’m letting you know I have a new one out. No worries if you’re not interested; just letting you know. Hope all is well with you and yours. ...
To clean my palate after reading Comey’s A Higher Loyalty , I settled onto the couch on Sunday after my run and gobbled up John Scalzi’s Head On: A Novel of the Near Future . It was delicious and I gave it to my partner Ryan McIntyre at dinner last night (he and Katherine are in a nice rhythm of taking care of me Sunday night when Amy is away.) ...
My idea of a really good afternoon on a three day weekend is to lay on the couch and read a book. Other than a nap in the middle of the experience, that’s what I did today. I read the Supersymmetry by David Walton . It’s the sequel to Superposition , which I read earlier this year. They are both excellent near term sci-fi in the action/adventure save the world while learning physics genre. ...
Yesterday at the end of the day I was sitting in Greg Gottesman ‘s office at Madrona catching up on email before dinner. Greg walked in with Ben Gilbert from Madrona Labs . We started talking about sci-fi and Greg said “Are you into Ingress ?” I responded “Is that the Google real-world / augmented reality / GPS game?” Greg said yes and I explained that I’d played with it a little when it first came out several years ago since a few friends in Boulder were into it but I lost track of it since there wasn’t an iOS app. ...