Month: March 2026

Dr. Don Lincoln‘s Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos (2004) is a masterwork of scientific exposition that takes readers on a journey spanning 2,500 years. It starts with early thinkers like Democritus and goes all the way to modern particle physics.

Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in modern science fiction globally. His writing is deeply rooted in hard science, with an equal weightage to philosophy, cosmology, human nature, existential inquiry and the nature of existence itself.

This is my second read from Peter Watts’ collection. I thoroughly enjoyed in fact, marinated myself with the ideas that he presented in Blindsight. And I got equally invested in this book also.  So far, Starfish sets itself apart from other science fiction books I have read because of the philosophical depth that lies beneath its veneer of speculative biology. On the surface, it appears to be a hard science fiction story about human modification and deep-sea adaptation. In reality, it’s a psychological descent into the fundamental question, which is,…

Peter Watts’s Blindsight explores the deep philosophical questions about consciousness, to a thought-provoking perspective, What if consciousness is a liability rather than an asset? 

I was just thirty pages into Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and I knew I’m gonna love this book. I picked this novella expecting a standard space opera, perhaps some faster-than-light travel and a galactic empire in decline. Instead, I found a book that didn’t just invite me into a story, it invited me into a completely different way of thinking about space, time, intergalactic internet, different levels of thought and consciousness, and yes AI of course.