It's by the guy who runs / draws xkcd.com web comics, and gives serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. For example: Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?

Questions are weird like that, but the science is real, so an interesting read. Specially if you are a fan of xkcd.

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

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[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Finished "crossing power"by Scott Moon. It's scifi pulp as I mentioned last week. There's also quite a few errors (spelling) in the book, which gets on your nerves eventually. Decided I had enough of that, so finished "The shattering peace" by John Scalzi. It's a great installment in the "old mans war" series, and it has some great humor with a character of the "Obin" race. Not so fun fact; Scott Moon's books get higher ratings on goodreads than John Scalzi's, there's definitely something fishy going on.

Currently reading "service model" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. From what I gather this isn't a typical Tchaikovsky book, but I like this one a lot (I think I have two of his books in the unfinished pile because I couldn't get the hang of it).

[–] dresden@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could be number of people reading Scott Moon vs John Scalzi, also it's possible that Scalzi is more popular so many people read it just because of popularity and end up not liking it, while only the people who like Moon's book read them.

Just guessing randomly...

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think Scott Moon's books are free on Kindle unlimited a lot, so the price/quality ratio might be a factor?