Category: Reviews
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Terra Nil
Terra Nil is an inverted city-builder game. Rather than placing buildings to create an ever growing metropolis, you place buildings to clean up the environment, rewild it and then recycle everything you placed – leaving no trace behind. The whole game is basically sold upon this schtick, but it is such a cool one I…
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The Soul of a New Machine
I’ve just finished reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder. It’s a brilliantly written non-fiction account of creating a new computer in the late 70s under massive time constraints. It describes the characters involved, their leadership styles and creative processes, and has a healthy but very readable dose of technology. Lots of it really…
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The Circle
David Egger’s The Circle is a fast paced and addictive read, it’s a blunt satire of the pervasiveness of social networking and people’s need to share. The Circle is an internet company that has replaced Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Justin.tv and more. As such it knows a lot about a lot of people. The novel…
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The Illiad
I’m not sure that given all of the attention and scholarly works about the Iliad, what I can really add, but it has made me think and I’ve really enjoyed it. The below does contain “spoilers” (the story is nearly 3000 years old!). I assume not much of an introduction is needed, it’s a testament…
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A long path
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Wow. This is a Star Wars RPG that like a good book, I couldn’t put down. The game is essentially an adapted set of dungeon and dragons rules set in the Star Wars universe. However all the geeky dungeons and dragons dice roles etc has been hid away….and…
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IOU: The debt threat and why we must defuse it
IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It IOU is a book by Noreena Hertz about third world debt, she discusses the different methods countries acquire debt, how those methods come to be and the downsides of each one. She then goes on to talk about why the developed world should care –…
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Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything
I’ve just completed A Short History of Nearly Everything, after having plenty of time stuck at Birmingham New Street to read it. Basically it is an ‘easy to understand’ explanation of many scientific discoveries and theories on a huge varying subject matter, from the big bang theory, to the discovery of atoms, to the birth of…
Dean Sas 