Tag Archives: San Francisco

Book Review:  Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

If there is such a thing as literary comfort food, this science fiction novella qualifies. It tastes good and goes down smooth and easy. Ostensibly it’s a dystopia; after all, California has recently broken away from the rest of America, … Continue reading

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Book Review:  Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia by Brian Barth

I have great sympathy for the homeless, or as the author of Front Street says is more politically correct, the unhoused. For years, during my road days, I had no dwelling place to call my own. I would simply roll … Continue reading

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Book Review:  Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel by Cory Doctorow

It’s been decades since I became absorbed enough in a novel series to read one book after another as soon as they came out. I thought those days were behind me. But then along came Cory Doctorow and his novels … Continue reading

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