Crucial Confrontations

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There is no other book that I can point to with such clarity and say "I learned X from this and I'm better for it". If you wish you would fare better in difficult conversations, personal or professional, read this.

When we cease to understand the world

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Brutal, poetic, true, false, everything

Permutation city

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While it may seem more interested in its concepts than its characters, the concepts are worth it

The Unfolding of Language

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I like learning about language evolution and this one gave me a whole new meta on it

Exhalation

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The rare book that touches both the depth of my despair as well as my hopes and dreams!

The City & the City

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Took me surprise, a police procedural turns strange in a place that is divided on a whole nother level

Stories of Your Life and Others

Axiomatic

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A great collection of Black Mirrors

Infomocracy

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What a world. More interested in systems of poli(tics)/(cy) and their consequences than scaring us with another intricate dystopia (though it is intricate and at times dystopic)

Maniac

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I trailed off a bit in the middle, maybe that was intended bc of the delulu subject matter but it hooked me again towards the end.