Non-fiction
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum. It looks at the embrace of authoritarianism by the far right, using Poland as a warning of how illiberal movements can exploit populism to subvert the media and the courts and snuff out democracy. Applebaum shows that a great many people are so desperate for simple solutions that they will willingly cede authority to nationalist strongmen.
Fiction
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. Weird and dark hard sci-fi. The science is front and centre, in a far future where transhumanism, generation ships, and nano-plagues have transformed humanity. This isn’t Star Trek or the The Expanse. Very dense and challenging.
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