I'm about to finish reading Robert J. Sawyer's Factoring Humanity. I've read his most recent Neanderthal Trilogy, and I randomly picked up this book, written in 1998 at a used bookstore. It's neat to see ideas that I was reading about at the time it was published, like quantum computing mixed with ideas from things that interest me, like his references to Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind, Noam Chomsky, and tesseracts. And of course the were references to Neanderthals and quantum computers foreshadows the more recent books of his I've read.

Above it all, I find the concept of the Four Dimensional Overmind delightful, considering my fascination with Redwood trees, and the idea that a forest of ancient trees can actually be a single organism.

I really like how Sawyer grounds his Science Fiction by making one of the major subplots be about a very personal human issue. Now to finish reading.

Listening to Hot Fuss by The Killers and a playlist that focuses on Muse,Modest Mouse,Morrissey, and other bands I've been introduced to over the last year or so. Not all start with M.