What am I reading: Updated

and here I am again... Recently, I have been catching up on my Science Fiction, ater so much time spent reading real science. so, it's been the time of Evolution, a majestic plot which takes something like one billion years to unwindle, following a dinasty of primates from small critters at the foot of dinosaurs to man, to an ending I don't want to reveal... it certainly is interesting, although some of the theories exposed inside I don't particularly agree with, especially after reading the red queen... but it's an interesting read, although may be a little below Baxter standards. Too much time is spent, in my opinion, on the 'human' persons (I actually skipped this part ah ah) and I'd have loved to see something more on the primeval mammals, who scuttled at the feet of dinosaurs since 200 millions years ago... but hey, may be I'll get to write my own book about them, one day...

the part I appreciated most where those about the Antarctica T-Rex (cool), but most of all the
brief story about the Jurassic Hunters, intelligent and self-aware dynosaurs who hunted diplodocus and made simple tools... I wish he could extend on them... and I wish I could know whether something of what we are doing now will be left over to be found by our successors in another hundred million years...

Now, I'm almost done with stephen johanson's book Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. I'm reading it in the italian version, though. excatly the same book I read when I was fourteen and started my long lasting interest in paleonthology/paleoanthropology...