The Age of Spiritual Machines

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Title: The Age of Spiritual Machines [$]
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Pages: 400
Part of the problem with books making predictions about the future is they only have two markets: (1), people who want to read predictions about the future, and (2) [...]

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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15
Title: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [$]
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Orb Books
Year: 1966/1997
Pages: 384
Heinlein is known as the father of science fiction, but it’s obvious to anyone who reads him that lumping him with mere storytellers like David Drake or [...]

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Galatea 2.2

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Title: Galatea 2.2 [$]
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Picador
Year: 1995/2004
Pages: 336
I received Galatea 2.2 as a birthday gift from my brother—previously, I had never heard of Powers, which now surprises me insofar as he seems the sort of enigmatic literary marvels that I [...]

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