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I hadn't realised until recently that the fleet that Nelson destroyed at Trafalgar was on its way to the English Channel to help Napoleon's army to cross to England. In that way the battle of Trafalgar is directly comparable to the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the Battle of Britain in 1940.

A few years back I was reading 'Rivers of London' by Ben Aaronovitch on the London Underground on my way to work when I realised he was talking about a body being found in the actual tunnel I was passing though at the time.

Just finished 'Subtle is the Lord - The Science and Life of Albert Einstein' by Abraham Pais. Easily the best biography of Einstein.

Currently reading: 'Inhibitor Phase' by Alastair Reynolds (60% read), 'Wayward' by Hannah Mathewson (50%), '10,000 Light Years from Home' by James Tiptree Jnr (50%), 'Rust for Rustaceans' by Jon Gjengset (20%), and 'Hands-on Rust' by Herbert Wolverson (10%).

I couldn't finish Ministry for the Future; I found it just too depressing. And I like Kim Stanley Robinson but I just couldn't believe in the solutions he proposes for climate change. I think the problem is too big for us to solve and that humanity is almost certainly in for a few rough centuries while we adjust. A lot of people are going to suffer.