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Taylor, Joseph E. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. University of Washington Press, 1999. A very well-written history of willful ignorance on the part of government and business leaders regarding the decimation of salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest. (Finished)

Egan, Timothy. The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest. Vintage Departures, 1991. A classic "following in the footsteps" travelogue and a snapshot of the PNW at the end of the logging era and before tech became the major industry. (Finished)

Spiedel, William C. Sons of the Profits or There's No Business Like Grow Business: The Seattle Story 1851-1901. Nettle Creek, 1967. A rather sarcastic look at the greed and rapaciousness in the colonization and early history of Seattle. (Finished)

Harvey, Samantha. Orbital: A Novel. Grove Press, 2024. The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, and so far, evocative novel about what it means to be human when you are so far removed from most of humanity. (Finished).

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus. Algonquin Books, 2003. A Bildungsroman in a time of crisis in Nigeria and in the narrator's family that takes a dark turn.

Bleecker, Julian and Nicolas Nova. "A Synchroncity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing." Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5, editors Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, and Mark Shepherd. The Architectural League of New York, 2009. Before IOT really took off, Bleeker and Nova published this discussion of what on the creative possibilities and undesirable outcomes from location-based and spatial computing technologies.