I'm reading Galileo's Dream. Ask me anything!

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[YankeyMCC]

1. I hear good things

How are you liking it?

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2. So far it's a thumbs up...

The basic plot is a more or less classic "engineer the timeline of human history" kind of plot. People from the future are mucking about with the Scientific Renaissance. In this respect, it's making me wish I remembered more about Galileo's actual biographic history. I'm somewhat in the dark about what is being changed, with reference to our actual history.

I'm not feeling very enthusiastic about his cosmology. I like the idea of time actually occupying 3 dimensions. However, I feel as though he designed a structure of time in one of those attempts to explain human cognitive experience. In other words, it's yet another example of linking human cognition directly to Deep Physics. (I blame Hofstadter for this trend, at least as a contemporary influence. My views of cognition align more closely with a guy like Greg Egan) But it's his cosmology, and I'm willing to suspend my disbelief in the name of enjoying his story.

It's definitely a bit darker than his other stuff. I like that, it's my kind of aesthetic.

There is clearly a lot that hasn't been revealed yet. I'm about halfway through. Not Everything Is As It Seems.

Galileo is an awesome character. Funny, Brilliant, Arrogant, Caring, Sadistic, Damaged... You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl.