cdeane61's review against another edition
5.0
Took me a while to get through this one, I kept hitting the renew limit at the library and having to return it and take it out again.
Well worth it though. A comprehensive review of events that can and have caused extinctions on our planet and the ways we might avoid or a least survive the next one.
Interesting in that it is pre-Covid but espouses many of the measures that were in fact taken.
I viewed it as mostly an optimistic book and it still stands as such, but with a tinge of pessimism too, as some of the steps being described as measures towards survival are still not in place even though the publication date is 2013.
Could we move a little faster please....
Well worth it though. A comprehensive review of events that can and have caused extinctions on our planet and the ways we might avoid or a least survive the next one.
Interesting in that it is pre-Covid but espouses many of the measures that were in fact taken.
I viewed it as mostly an optimistic book and it still stands as such, but with a tinge of pessimism too, as some of the steps being described as measures towards survival are still not in place even though the publication date is 2013.
Could we move a little faster please....
marielaiko99's review against another edition
3.0
I love the idea for this book, but I don't think it was extremely well-executed. I found it hard to get through and took many breaks from reading it.
author_d_r_oestreicher's review against another edition
3.0
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz is an anthology of contemporary ideas on the future of Earth and homo sapiens. Most of the book is based on interviews and published books, by scientists and science fiction authors. For example, Newitz recaps several of Octavia Butler’s novels. Unfortunately, if you are interested in the topic you will know about most the ideas presented…for example: synthetic biology, climate simulation, space elevators, and uploading brains.
If you’d like to read the current thoughts about the future of humanity all in one place, this is the book for you.
For my detailed report: http://1book42day.blogspot.com/2018/08/scatter-adapt-and-remember-by-annalee.html
Check out https://amazon.com/shop/influencer-20171115075 for book recommendations.
If you’d like to read the current thoughts about the future of humanity all in one place, this is the book for you.
For my detailed report: http://1book42day.blogspot.com/2018/08/scatter-adapt-and-remember-by-annalee.html
Check out https://amazon.com/shop/influencer-20171115075 for book recommendations.
ckcombsdotcom's review against another edition
5.0
My head is filled with so many ideas for new stories, fueled by the mass quantities of great information in this book. Newitz has a talent for bringing even the most complex concepts back to Earth, even when the topic is interstellar travel. Well written, excellent research.
kajh23's review against another edition
2.0
Ok, so I skimmed through a lot if this book. Read the stuff I found interesting. It wasn't as compelling as I hoped it would be.
allie_rose's review against another edition
3.75
Very interesting to read both Newitz’s nonfiction and fiction—you can see where she gets a lot of her fictional plot points from.
sizrobe's review against another edition
4.0
At times fascinating, but also a bit dry at times. I was hoping for more posthumanist stuff that the few chapters at the end. One thing I found interesting is that there's a chapter about pandemics that still holds up after COVID, even endorsing social distancing.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
4.0
A big concept book that really shouldn't have worked but kind of did, mostly because it was just very readable. How do you get away with looking at the history of all major mass extinctions, early human migrations including interactions with Neandertals, the scattering of the Jews, building underground, surviving/avoiding asteroids and migrating to space all in a book less than 300 pages long? First by being fairly shallow and presumably assuming that the reader can follow along. This ought to have had a better bibliography, and it could have been multiple books. But it was quite good enough.