Books
Books that sound interesting, in no particular order!
Future Reading:
Fiction
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Italo Calvino
- Cosmicomics
- t zero
- Invisible Cities
- If on a winter's night a traveler
- Gregory Benford
- Timescape
- The Martian Race
- Beyond the Fall of Night
- Beyond Infinity
- The Galactic Center Series
- Across the Sea of Suns
- Great Sky River
- Tides of Light
- Furious Gulf
- Sailing Bright Eternity
- Katherine Neville
- Michael Crichton
- Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicron
- Zodiac
- The Baroque Cycle
- Quicksilver
- The Confusion
- The System of the World
- Orson Scott Card
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- Ender's Shadow
- Arthur C. Clarke
- The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars
- Childhood's End
- The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
- Cradle (with Gentry Lee)
- Imperial Earth
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Carl Sagan
- Frank Herbert
- The Jesus Incident (with Bill Ransom)
- Lazarus Effect
- The Ascension Factor
- Children of Dune
- God Emporer of Dune
- Heretics of Dune
- Chapterhouse: Dune
- Dune: House Atreides
- Douglas Adams
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Larry Niven
- Neutron Star
- Ringworld Engineers
- Robert Heinlein
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Friday
- Time Enough for Love
Non-Fiction
- Daniel Dennett
- Andy Clark
- Fux: Gradus Ad Parnassum (need to do more of the exercises)
- Peter Westergaard: An Introduction to Tonal Theory (an amazing book; working through it slowly)
- Gregory Benford
- Chris Kraft -- Flight: My Life in Mission Control
Read Recently
Fiction
- Arthur C. Clarke
- The Fountains of Paradise
- Against the Fall of Night
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- A Fall of Moondust
- Earthlight
- Benford
- In the Ocean of Night
- Eater
- Shiva Descending
- Artifact
- Cosm
- Stephenson
- The Diamond Age
- Snow Crash
- Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game
- Speaker for the Dead
- Frank Herbert
- Destination: Void
- The Godmakers
- The Santaroga Barrier
- Whipping Star
- The Dosadi Experiment
- The Eyes of Heisenberg
- Larry Niven
- Douglas Adams
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Nonfiction
- Mark Buchanan: Nexus
- Steven Johnson: Emergence
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Le Ton Beau de Marot
- Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
- David Cope et al