Posts tagged Peter Frankopan
Cameron's Book Round-Up, October and Early November 2023
Cameron's Book Round-Up, October and Early November 2023

I have a bad habit of letting these sit too long. The links go to bookshop, but maybe consider donating to something that might help deal with the human suffering and ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine before grabbing one of these.

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Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersLand: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, Simon Winchester, The Nineties: A Book, Chuck Klosterman, Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment, Destination: Void, Pandora Sequence, Frank Herbert, The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, The Dead Take the A Train, Cassandra Khaw, Richard Kadrey, Hell Followed With Us, Andrew Joseph White, Chainsaw Man, Tatsuki Fujimoto, Dreadnought, Clockwork Century, Cherie Priest, The Subprimes, Karl Taro GreenfeldComment
The World Builder's Bookshelf, Part 1
The World Builder's Bookshelf, Part 1

Now, I’ve had a lot of thoughts on genre fiction in the past, and this list is going to be more useful for people interested in writing a secondary world story, with a particular (but not exclusive) eye towards fantasy fiction. As a result of a number of factors, there are going to be several works that I often make use of in my political thoughts, but this list isn’t primarily or solely focused on that.

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Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron SummersWorld Building, The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft from the Ice Age to the Present, Chris Gosden, Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga, Work: A Deep History, James Suzman, Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott, Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, David M. Perry, Matthew Gabriele, Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Wengrow, A Burglar's Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception, Carolly Erickson, The Medieval Machine, Jean Gimpel, The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel, Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de CastroComment