The Iron King - Maurice Druon

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Start-up Nation - Dan Senor and Saul Singer

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iWoz - Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith

I imagine it is pretty hard not to love this guy.

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Rogues - George R R Martin

As I have come to expect from a GRRM anthology, mostly awesome stories in here.

• Tough Times All Over by Joe Abercrombie
• Bent Twig by Joe R. Lansdale
• What Do You Do? by Gillian Flynn
• The Inn of the Seven Blessings by Matt Hughes
• Tawny Petticoats by Michael Swanwick
• Provenance by David W. Ball
• The Roaring Twenties by Carrie Vaughn
• A Year and a Day in Old Theradane by Scott Lynch
• Bad Brass by Bradley Denton
• Heavy Metal by Cherie Priest
• The Meaning of Love by Daniel Abraham
• A Better Way to Die by Paul Cornell
• Ill Seen in Tyre by Steven Saylor
• A Cargo of Ivories by Garth Nix
• Diamonds From Tequila by Walter Jon Williams
• The Caravan to Nowhere by Phyllis Eisenstein
• The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives by Lisa Tuttle
• How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman
• Now Showing by Connie Willis
• The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Rogue Prince" by GRRM

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Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jeth

I found this book pretty frustrating (and not in the way you are imagining).

It seems like there is plenty of evidence that the "standard narrative" (assuming the whole concept is not a straw man as has been argued elsewhere) is incorrect in its view that humans evolved in purely monogamous societies.

It then leaps from that premise to the idea that, in a post agricultural world, humanity should abandon monogamy because it creates a conflict with our evolved selves. This seems absurd to me. The book argues that monogamy is a "Culturally imposed aberration". Even if that is so, it doesn't make it any less necessary in the post agricultural/industrial, highly populous world that we live in. No solution is offered to this dilemma that is, in my experience, not a dilemma at all.

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