
Sci-fi
Many scientific discoveries originate from books such as A thousand leagues under the sea, and around the world in 80 days. The books below could serve as a hope to what the future can bring, or simply for imaginative exploration
How High We Go In The Dark
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star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Reading length: medium (300pages)
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Amazon pricing: $13
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Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu
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“no-no stuff” : moderate
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One sentence: Speculative fiction made fun and witty

“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.”
This is how you lose the time war
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star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Reading length: short (223 pages)
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Amazon pricing: $9
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Author: Amal El Mohtar and max gladstone
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“no-no stuff” : just wholesome
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One sentence: Writing letters as a mode of communication could never be any nicer as shown here

“When you go back, no matter how hard you try, the present will not change.”
“I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.
Before the Coffee gets cold
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star rating: ⭐⭐⭐
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Reading length: short (272 pages)
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Amazon pricing: $14
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Author: Toshikazu Kawaguch
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Primary countries in the book: Japan
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“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
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One sentence: Popular and also relatable

“When you go back, no matter how hard you try, the present will not change.”
““Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. ”
The Circle
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star rating: ⭐⭐⭐
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Reading length: long (630 pages)
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Amazon pricing: $13
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Author: Dave Eggers
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Primary countries in the book: America
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“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
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One sentence: Very interesting futuristic concepts on offer

“It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No one needs the level of contact you’re purveying. It improves nothing. It’s not nourishing. It’s like snack food. You know how they engineer this food? They scientifically determine precisely how much salt and fat they need to include to keep you eating. You’re not hungry, you don’t need the food, it does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories. This is what you’re pushing. Same thing. Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent. And you calibrate it so it’s equally addictive.”

