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Just finished; The Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. Enjoyed it very much but probably should have let some distance pass between this and the other two books of his that I've read recently. As it was, it felt like parts of the book were just repetition of points from the other two books. Which is useful as a reminder if six months or so had passed, but a week or so wasn't quite enough. Mutineer's Moon by David Weber. I always like David Weber, and I liked this novel a lot, though I felt like the main character was too often shunted aside and didn't really do anything until the end. In progress: Space Chronicles by Neil Degrasse Tyson. Love this book, love his writing style, his moments of gentle 'dad' humor, and agree with nearly all of his arguments for expanding the space program. The Armageddon Inheritance by David Weber. The sequel to Mutineer's Moon. So far it's good and seems to have more of a focus on the main character (in the first book the main character instigates the action and then lets someone else plan the action and other people carry out the action until the end, in this one he is planning his own actions and acting on them himself. So far). There was a Star Trek book I read a while back where it said the Captain would be a fool if he lead away missions and the Captain was too important to risk like that. Which might have influenced the first couple of seasons of TNG where Picard kind of looks weak and uninspiring. Not coincidentally the show got much better when they got rid of that philosophy (which absolutely makes sense in a real world setting but not as much sense in a story telling world).
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