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
  • The Eight
• Michael Crichton
  • Prey
  • Timeline
• 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
  • Blue Mars
  • Green Mars
• Carl Sagan
  • Contact
• 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
  • Consciousness Explained
  • Kinds of Minds
• Andy Clark
  • Mindware
• 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
  • Deep Time
• 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
  • Ringworld
• Douglas Adams
  • The Hitchhiker "Trilogy"
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Red Mars

Nonfiction

• Mark Buchanan: Nexus
• Steven Johnson: Emergence
• Douglas Hofstadter
  • Le Ton Beau de Marot
  • Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
• David Cope et al
  • Virtual Music