We’re finally hitting the summer, and so it’s time to talk about summer reads!
I’ve given a few highlights from my own reads. How about yours?
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These are posts about books from the blog Base and Superstructure. Occasionally I’ll read a book worth talking about, and write some thoughts on it. These cover a wide range of topics from the blog.
Welcome to our fifth reading list of 2026, where we’re well into spring, the semester has ended, and we’re all ready to get down to business and read!
This month’s list is a mix of politics and everyday life. It’s also a mix of good and bad reads. Hope you enjoy!
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Welcome to our first full spring edition of the reading list here at Base and Superstructure! Here are some of the things that I’m reading as we build into warmer weather and more sunshine.
Hope you enjoy!
We march on to our third entry in this year’s reading list. Hopefully we do so with an eye toward spring. But I suppose we’ll see.
This month’s list is especially eclectic. In it, we’ll see everything from politics and philosophy to literature and medicine. Let’s get to it!
I recently re-read Cal, one of Isaac Asimov’s final short stories. It was published in the 1995 collection Gold, which is a hit-or-miss collection of unpublished Asimov stories sitting around near the end of his life, paired with essays on sci-fi as a genre and writing as a practice.
That’s enough by way of an intro. Here’s the point: In the story, Asimov lays out a scenario involving a robot that learns how to write. As the robot becomes more complex, its writing becomes better than the writing of its master. The master worries that the robot will come to overshadow him. In response, he calls a technician to dumb down the robot’s programming.
This produces a crisis in the first law of robotics.
Sound familiar?
