I’ve started reading that book a while ago. It’s opening scenario is really scary. Don’t know why, but I have forgotten to read it to it’s end. Thanks for the reminder 
Currently I started listening to the following as an audiobook (Murder Mindfully), at least the german version is really funny.
Several years old, and (slightly) dated as a result, but still highly relevant given what’s afoot in the world today…
do we also count E-books?
I don’t believe the thread is confined by physical medium i.e. hardbound, stitched book. So yes.
Finished the ebook version of Exhalation by Ted Chiang last night.
I want to send the paperback to my son… but the (greek) cover is so good ( 
what kind of mother am I…)
I’m currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and I’ll start reading 1984 tomorrow. Heard good things about both.
Easy solution to that: Get a second copy so both of you can have it! 
I know that from my son: He “borrowed” my Stephen Hawking – The Universe in a Nutshell and my Tracy Kidder – The Soul of a New Machine for years now. I will have to get hold of another copy of these, too…
But I’m of course happy that all my children turned out to be bookworms, too!
No, no, no… My special edition from 2001, the first worldwide hardcover etc. …after my death 
The cover is a little worn, and I signed it with my favorite verse, at the time, from Deep Purple…
PS. He has read all my books on astrophysics when he was at high school, including this one. (but I like to be drama queen, it was the healthiest way to survive kernel panics from 2001 till now 
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Read both in my teens. I remember Dorian Gray to be very entertaining and an easy read, and 1984 to be rather a shock to my system; I really thought that things couldn’t ever get to be as Orwell depicts them - boy, was I wrong. There is a line in 1984 (I won’t repeat it here, as I don’t want to spoil your experience) that is so very pertinent to current times that it is almost uncanny.
Have fun with both books!
Never heard of this writer - I’ll have a look. Thanks for the heads up.
I’m rereading a lot of D i c k e n s* lately - it’s my mode of escapism, I think.
He is a science fiction writer. The book is a collection of short stories.
Short stories collection is and his other book Stories of Your Life and Others
The movie Arrival is based in one of these stories.
He is exploring conventional tropes of science fiction (time, destiny, free will, societal impact of technology…) in highly unconventional ways.
Chiang has published 18 short stories, to date, and most of them have won prestigious speculative fiction awards - including multiple Nebula Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, and British Science Fiction Association Awards, among others. His short story “Story of Your Life” was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He has never written a novel but is one of the most decorated science fiction writers currently working.
Chiang’s first eight stories are collected in “Stories of Your Life, and Others” and the next nine, in “Exhalation: Stories”.
I’m just contemplating to buy the 22-book Humble Bundle “Tachyon—30 years of speculative fiction”…
Wonder what “Auf DRM-frei einlösen” shall mean… bloody page won’t open in English and no setting to find…
EDIT: Actually had to set the browser to “preferred website language: English”, and now it says “DRM FREE: Read on any device”. Now that sounds good. Different icon even. German shows a key, you’d assume “locked”, English shows a “DRM free” icon. Darned AI translations…
EDIT 2: Why can’t I resist books? Bought them all. 
Some light SF/Fantasy can never hurt…
It is full moon. No European can have any idea of what this means on the smooth frozen surface of the earth. It is as though we were dissolving in moonlight…. One’s entire consciousness is penetrated by the brightness; it is as though we were being drawn into the moon itself…..
A much-needed escape from the hot Mediterranean sun 
Looks interesting. May try to get this in the German version soon. Thanks!
Nice read.
Also on Gutenberg project i believe
Audiobook (for chores): Now listening A Clash of Kings
Physical book (for nostalgia, because witcher 3 was the favorite game of my oldest son who now is away for his PhD) : I’m reading Sword of Destiny
Ebook: Started/Finished yesterday We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984
I’m currently preparing an e-book release of The Jargon File (aka The New Hacker’s Dictionary), and find myself actually reading it again…
22 years after the last edition, I think it has deserved it—kinda historical document in it’s own right. And still an enjoyable read, especially if you’ve been there, done that…
(Cover from the 3rd and last printed edition 2003).
Too bad some of the original build tools have gone missing, and nobody uses PageMaker anymore, of course. So it requires some manual editing, not all could be done by “just converting” it.
It’s a documentation as well as a large, heavily cross-referenced glossary, so one will need an e-reader capable of jumping back from links (PocketBook and KOReader make a good job here).
