Feb '23 Notable Books: Colin Winnette, Sally Adee & Salman Rushdie
A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...
Victory City - Salman Rushdie (Feb. 7) - In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.
Users - Colin Winnette (Feb. 21) - In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates — with both humor and creeping dread — how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.
We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds - Sally Adee (Feb. 28) - In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee takes readers through the thrilling history of bioelectricity and into the future: from the Victorian medical charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure everything from paralysis to diarrhea, to the advances helped along by the giant axons of squids, and finally to the brain implants and electric drugs that await us—and the moral implications therein.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Victory City - Salman Rushdie (Feb. 7) - In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.
Users - Colin Winnette (Feb. 21) - In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates — with both humor and creeping dread — how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.
We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds - Sally Adee (Feb. 28) - In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee takes readers through the thrilling history of bioelectricity and into the future: from the Victorian medical charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure everything from paralysis to diarrhea, to the advances helped along by the giant axons of squids, and finally to the brain implants and electric drugs that await us—and the moral implications therein.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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