This week has been rather intense, at least as it goes for word consumption. Aside from my daily reading of blogs, news, and other crap, I've read two novels in quick succession.
«I»Evolution«/I» by Stephen Baxter, and «I»Darwin's Radio«/I» by Greg Bear. Both deal with the subject of human evolution, both past, present, and future. Bear writes about a case of punctuated equilibrium in modern times, and is mistaken for a diseases that strikes women and causes miscarriages. Only handful of people know what is really going on, blah blah blah, typical science iction fare in that respect, but the premise of thebook is intellectually interesting. Baxter's book is a psudohistory of primates from the time of the KT impact event to 500 million years from now, a sort of life and times of humans and their social environments. It ends in a typical Baxter fashion, however...all the humans are dead at the end, leaving only hardy species that can't stop the sun from expanding into a red giant, although bacteria survive, just like in «I»Titan«/I», another Baxter book.
Next week will be science magazines and Star Trek novels. And Clancy. They make for decent bus ride reading.