The This by Adam Roberts
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rule 34 by Charlie Stross
Bardo it Not Bardo by Antoine Voladine
The Happier Dead by Ivo Stourton
Foe by Ian Reid (it's like the chiral version of the film, which I also liked)
Under The Skin by Michel Faber (the book is terrifying)
I've kept it short and relatively contemporary because there's likely an overlap with lots of other people and I've usually read lots of that author. So I've avoided obvious or the popular sci-fi classics but have often read or attempted them.
I'm not comparing the present UK government to China, nor do I think it's intentions are wholly about control, but it doesn't take much imagination to see how a future government could misuse such laws.
Wordle 1,303 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Four is the most likely score and I wouldn't share other than it bugs me how close I was in this one. I've got 3 in similar circumstances next time though.
I completed this in 31 seconds, can you beat me?* - https://news.sky.com/puzzles/word-ladder/2025-01-10
* You probably can, just use the pause button, it's often limited by ability to thumb type. Word ladders were invented by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1877. Which predated algorithmic information theory. Assembly Theory FTW.
A fun one.
Daily Extreme Octordle #1080
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Score: 67
