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I need to be more diligent about updating this place. So, here goes:

For Xmas, Jessi got me a $100 gift card for Barnes and Noble. With that, I got around a dozen books that I plan on reading over the course the year (if not sooner).

I’m starting with this one (click pic for details from B&N):

It’s a pretty cool detective novel set in the 25th century. It’s the kind of story I like - one with “big ideas”. Sci-Fi is about the only place you can find books like that now. In this one, death is almost non-existent. A tiny chip at the base of your skull can record your thoughts, dreams, consciousness, etc. and be installed into new bodies if you meet an untimely demise. How cool would that be? In this book, a former military officer (Takeshi Kovacs) has his chip pulled out of the penal storage system and inserted into a new body to find out why there was an attempt on a wealthy, 300+ year old man. The cops say it was suicide - the man says “no way”.

Any “big idea” novels you I like? Let me know in the comments.

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