The Plucky Programmer

Rating: 7.5/10 When you think of science fiction, you probably conjure an image not very different from this: There is a Han Solo-like gung-ho captain swinging from the carbon nanoutube ropes of his solar sails, a gleaming spaceship rendered with a lot of blue, robots that could perform radical brain surgery on you in record time if you wanted them to, and invariably- various depictions of aliens.This is the traditional  [ Read More ]

“Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel” by Michio Kaku My rating: 8.5/10 I saw this book in Crossword (New Delhi), was not very sure if I would be able to/wanted to read it, but picked it up anyway because since it had already been recommended to me by more than one person and I had liked the author’s  [ Read More ]