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Catch-22 (miniseries) (2019)

By Leli July 23, 2020

astonishingly well -made, -acted, -written, but about twice as depressing as the book, so consider yourself warned.

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By Leli July 12, 2023

Both the sci-fi elements and the scientist characters are really fun and involving in this carl sagan book adaptation - but on the other hand the love interest is really annoying and the movie should’ve been 30 minutes shorter.

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The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies

By Leli February 01, 2025

This nonfiction treatise on systems, communication and accountability is bold in its breadth, smoothly written and researched, laid out in a confusing and silly way, occasionally under-edited, but also fascinating, fun, and particularly impressive at the end.

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Maelstrom by Peter Watts

By Leli May 04, 2025

Watts’s second entry in the Rifters series doesn’t quite have the same unique magnetic characters of the first (and maybe it has slightly too many characters in general) but what it lacks in story it makes up for in prediction and world - read this to wallow in a truly terrible future dystopia that feels extremely likely.