Darwin's Radio

Last Nebula Awards winner of this year, I'm near to finish the pack I got some years ago, but until I read the 2018 winner, I think I have still lots of winners left.

This one is about genetics and human evolution, a new turn of clock to Darwin's theory, it's science fiction, so the idea is quite interesting, knowing the little time we have in this world it would be nice to see things like the explained in the book, well if you are not one of the first ones to suffer the xenophobia that always appears against anything new and difficult to understand.

This year I haven't read many books, perhaps too much blog posts, and too much Twitter, whose better definition I read about was "Facebook is the network of the friends you already have, and Twitter is the network of the friends you'll like to have".

About this year, what can I say, I lost my income base only months after having achieved my long time work to achieve it. I've had to return to be an employee to not go bankrupt. I'm a better dancer than last year. I've lost contact with most of my friends. As I'm older things get worse as it was supposed to be, sad to say that.

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler

I read this book because it's another Nebula Awards winner, I didn't check if it was part of a saga, I've just discovered it, so as far as I can tell, you can read the book which is the second of the saga and not miss the previous book.

It's a good novel of a distopian future where the US have collapsed and a christian fundamentalist movement reach the power and enslaves those they don't like. Torquemada's inquisition back in the 21st Century, it's easy to imagine for those who live nowadays in Catalonia and see how those christian inquisitors are still in their chairs ruling Spain.

So I would recommend everyone this book, as a reminder of what can happen if we choose rulers who don't invest in education.