Just started this one:

What can we do?

I picked up A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge after listening to this podcast with the author of The Simulation Hypothesis where he references Vinge. It seems like all of Vinge's works earned him some kind of an award and I've never read him.

I am reading High Road Leadership by John Maxwell! It is a really good back about taking the high road despite the Low Road Leadership we are experiencing today in politics.

I highly recommend his books! The thing is, John Maxwell is well past his retirement age and he continues to write books and speak. I love learning from people who have found their spark and continue to inspire others.

The series begins at the onset of a civil war between the United Earth Forces (UEF) and the Colonization Industrial Companies (CIC), which comprises the various outposts and colonies beginning at the planet Saturn and beyond.[1] The civil war begins when it is discovered that an immense black wall appears near Saturn, cutting the Solar System in two. The black wall absorbs all light and matter. Enormous, incomprehensible and terrifying, "the wall" is centered on Uranus's moon Oberon, cutting off access to any planet beyond Saturn. Admiral Von Richtburg discovers that the CIC was attempting to begin a civil war, and orders the Purgatory Squadron, a band of soldiers given a second chance after courts-martial, to investigate the phenomenon known as "the wall".[1]

After the Purgatory Squadron devises a method of breaching and investigating the wall, they are fired upon by a vessel of unknown design.[1] Admiral von Richtburg orders his UEF 3rd Fleet into the wall, and thus begins the First Universal War.

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