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* 07/2023 “Reasonable People” (Kate Kasten)

Books To Read

Books I finished, going back to 09/1992:

…started The Peripheral

10/2022 Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspective (Neal deGrasse Tyson)
09/2022 Upgrade (Blake Crouch)
04/2022 Foundation and Chaos (Greg Bear)
02?/2022 Foundation's Fear (Gregory Benford)
02?/2022 Prelude to Foundation
01/2022 Foundation and Earth
12/2021 Foundation's Edge
11/2021 Second Foundation
10/2021 Foundation, Foundation and Empire
xx/2021 ^^^ all the Foundation books (6?) + started on the follow-on trilogy by different authors
xx/2021 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
05/2021 Hail Mary by Andy Weir
02/2021 Ready Player Two
xx/2020? Born Standing Up
xx/2020 2010
xx/2020 2001
10/2020 The Catcher in the Rye
09/2020 Recursion: A Novel (Blake Crouch)
07/2020 "Forward Collection": The Last Conversation (Paul Tremblay)
07/2020 "Forward Collection": You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Amor Towles)
07/2020 "Forward Collection": Emergency Skin (N. K. Jemisin)
07/2020 "Forward Collection": Summer Frost (Blake Crouch, editor of the collection)
07/2020 "Forward Collection": Ark (Veronica Roth)
07/2020 "Forward Collection": Randomize (Andy Weir)
xx/2020 Atmosphaera Incognita (Neal Stephenson)
07/2019 God’s Debris (Scott Adams)
07/2019 Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)
10/2018 The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1)
10/2018 Masters of Space
09/2018 Press Start to Play (anthology of computer-game-themed sci fi stories)
06/2018 Armada (Ernest Cline)
06/2018 Artemis (Andy Weir)
04/2018 Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
xx/2017 A Mango Shaped Space
08/2017 The Princess Bride (William Goldstein)
07/2017 Accelerando (Charles Stross)
06/2017 Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People (Stephen Wolfram; Kindle Edition)
06/2017 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
12?/2016 Stories of Your Life (Ted Chiang)
11/2016 Glasshouse (Charles Stross)
07/2016 The Martian (on Kindle)
07/2016 Transparent Computers by Erik T Mueller (short, disappointing that it didn't go into more depth)
07/2016 Natural Language Processing With ThoughtTreasure (Erik T. Mueller)
05/2016 Statistical Snacks (Metin Betkas)
09/2015 Failure Is Not an Option
01/2015 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World (by John D. Barrow)
09/2014 Cryptonomicon
0x/2014 Wozpak
11/2013 Hacking Electronics (Simon Monk)
10/2013 WozPak Special Edition
12/2012 I Am A Pole (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
12/2008 Late Show Fun Facts
03/2007 Electronic Sensor Projects for the Evil Genius
02/2007 iWoz, ISBN 0393061434 (alternate, search)
12/2005 Revolution in the Valley (Andy Herzfeld), ISBN 0596007191 (alternate, search); text online at http://www.folklore.org/
08/2005 Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity (Joel Spolsky), ISBN 1590593898 (alternate, search); http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
07/2005 Paperboy (Henry Petroski)
05/2005 Smart Home Hacks, ISBN 0596007221 (alternate, search)
03/2005 Test-Driven Development By Example (Kent Beck), ISBN 0321146530 (alternate, search)
08/2004 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, et al), ISBN 0201485672 (alternate, search)
06/2004 What If...? Intriguing Answers for the Insatiably Curious (Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks)
02/2004 What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World (Derrick Niederman, David Boyum), ISBN 0-767-90999-2 (alternate, search)
02/2003 Hacker's Delight (Henry S. Warren, Jr.), ISBN 0-201-91465-4 (alternate, search). http://www.hackersdelight.org/
01/2003 Slant (Greg Bear) (recommended to me by Peter Mc)
08/2002 Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
08/2002 A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
06/2002 Building Natural Language Generation Systems (Ehud Reiter & Robert Dale); b-day from amazon list from M&D
04/2002 Darwin's Radio (Greg Bear)
03/2002 Dylan reference manual (from 1991 or so)
01/2002 Dilbert "Don't Step in the Management"
12/2001 How Much Does the Earth Weigh? (Marshall Brain)
05/2001 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (Feynman)
04/2001 The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
12/2000 6xH (Robert Heinlein): The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag; The Man Who Traveled in Elephants; "All You Zombies"; They; Our Fair City; "And He Build a Crooked House"
11/2000 Trails and Campfires (William D. Lyons)
11/2000 I Am Not Spock (Leonard Nimoy, 1975)
11/2000 HAL's Legacy: 2001's Coimputer As Dream and Reality (David G. Stork)
09/2000 I Am Spock (Leonard Nimoy, audiotapes)
09/2000 Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass (paperback)
08/2000 Future on Ice (Orson Scott Card anthology)
07/2000 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)
06/2000 I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy (John Allen Paulos)
03/2000 Why Do Buses Come In Threes? (___)
02/2000 In The Beginning...Was the Command Line (Neal Stephenson)
01/2000 Axiomatic (Greg Egan) (The Infinite Assassin, The Hundred Light-Year Diary, Eugene, The Caress, Blood Sisters, Axiomatic, The Safe-Deposit Box, Seeing, A Kidnapping, Learning to be Me, The Moat, The Walk, The Cutie, Into Darkness, Appropriate Love, The Moral Virologist, Closer, Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies)
xx/199x 3001 (Arthur C. Clarke)
12/1999 Tuva or Bust (Ralph Leighton; about Richard Feynman)
11/1999 The Most Beautiful Mathematical Formulas (Lionel Salem, Frédéric Testard, Coralie Salem)
11/1999 The Stars My Destination (sci fi, "jaunting")
09/1999 Mathsemantics: Making Numbers Talk Sense (Edward MacNeal)
07/1999 A Good Old-Fashioned Future (Bruce Sterling)
xx/1999 The Zero Hour (Joseph Finder)
06/1999 Invention by Design (Henry Petroski)
02/1999 The Meaning of it All (Richard Feynman lectures)
04/1998 Man Plus (Frederik Pohl, 1976)
04/1998 The Bohr Maker (Linda Nagata) (decent, "molecular technology" outlawed)
04/1998 The Physics of Star Trek (_____)
03/1998 Interface (Stephen Bury, cowritten(?) by Neal Stephenson; borrowed paperback from Sam Bushell)
01/1998 The Postman (David Brin)
12/1997 How to Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff, 1954)
10/1997 Airframe (Michael Crichton)
08/1997 Numbers For Everyday Life (Nigel Hopkins, John W. Mayne, John R. Hudson)
07/1997 Contact (Carl Sagan; read for 2nd time)
07/1997 Richter 10 (Mike McQuay, outline by Arthur C. Clarke)
07/1997 Falkenberg's Legion
06/1997 Sizes (John Lord)
12/1996 Lost World (Michael Crichton; Jurassic Park sequel)
12/1996 A Case of Need (Michael Crichton)
12/1996 Travels (Michael Crichton)
11/1996 The Gold Coast (Kim Stanley Robinson)
09/1996 Ghost (Piers Anthony)
08/1996 The Cognitive Computer (Roger C. Schank w/ Peter G. Childers)
08/1996 The Kruton Interface (John DeChancie; farce)
08/1996 Year's Best SF, 1996 (edited David G. Hartwell) (Think Like a Dinosaur; Wonders of the Invisible World; Hot Times in Magma City; Gossamer; A Worm in the Well; Downloadng Midnight; For White Hill; In Saturn Time; Coming of Age in Karhide; The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker; Evolution; The Day the Aliens Came; Microbe; The Ziggurat)
06/1996 Best SF of the Year #8
06/1996 There's Treasure Everywhere (Calvin & Hobbes)
06/1996 A Miracle of Rare Design (Mike Resnick)
06/1996 There Are No Electrons (Kenn Amdahl)
06/1996 How to Use HTML3 (Scott Arpajian)
05/1996 Icehenge (Kim Stanley Robinson)
05/1996 A Short Sharp Shock (Kim Stanley Robinson)
05/1996 A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper (John Allen Paulos)
05/1996 Who Got Einstein's Office? (Ed Regis)
04/1996 Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun (Mike Resnick short stories)
04/1996 Best C/C++ Tips Ever (Anthony Porter)
04/1996 The Dilbert Principle (Scott Adams; prose + cartoons)
04/1996 Crystal Express (Bruce Sterling short stories)
03/1996 Handbook of Practical Electronics
03/1996 JEM (Frederik Pohl; very interesting, 1979)
02/1996 Heavy Weather (Bruce Sterling)
01/1996 Remaking History and Other Stores (Kim Stanley Robinson) [started months ago]
01/1996 Triple Detente (Piers Anthony)
01/1996 Race Against Time (Piers Anthony)
12/1995 Globalhead (Bruce Sterling)
11/1995 Ask Marilyn (Marilyn vos Savant)
11/1995 Macroscope (Piers Anthony)
10/1995 Idiot Letters (Paul Rosa)
10/1995 How the World Was One (Arthur C. Clarke)
08/1995 Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Trust Software (Lauren Ruth Wiener)
08/1995 Microserfs (Douglas Coupland)
07/1995 Zodiac (Neal Stephenson)
07/1995 Apollo 13 (James Lovell, __________)
06/1995 Virtual Light (William Gibson)
05/1995 Far Frontiers (sci fi short stories)
03/1995 The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
02/1995 Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
01/1995 Congo (Michael Crichton)
01/1995 Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
11/1994 The Hammer of God (Arthur C Clarke)
11/1994 Beavis and Butthead Ensucklopedia
11/1994 Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
10/1994 Sixth Column (Heinlein, 1949)
09/1994 Disclosure (Michael Crichton)
09/1994 Revolt in 2100 (If This Goes On..., Coventry, Misfit) (Heinlein)
08/1994 Deathbird Stories (Harlan Ellison)
08/1994 Are Your Lights On? (Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg)
06/1994 The Super Hugos (Sandkings, The Bicentennial Man, Enemy Mine, The Star, The Big Front Yard, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, Neutron Star, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Flowers for Algernon)
04/1994 Rama Revealed (Arthur C. Clarke, excellent)
03/1994 To Sail Beyond the Sunset (Robert A. Heinlein)
03/1994 The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (ed. Tom Shippey)
02/1994 Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
01/1994 How to Write Macintosh Software, 3rd Edition (Scott Knaster)
01/1994 Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
12/1993 Good News From Outer Space (John Kessel)
12/1993 Things That Make Us Smart (Don Norman)
11/1993 More Than One Universe (Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi short stories)
10/1993 Cyberpunktrek (Robot Man book, Jim Meddick)
10/1993 Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons (Dilbert; Scott Adams)
10/1993 Dead Lawyers and Other Pleasant Thoughts (Non Sequitur book, Wiley)
10/1993 Fox Trot: En Masse ("Eight Yards, Down and Out" + "Black Bart Says Draw")
10/1993 Fox Trot: The Works ("Fox Trot" + "Pass The Loot", Bill Amend)
10/1993 Bury My Heart at Fun-Fun Mountain (Fox Trot, Bill Amend)
10/1993 200% of Nothing (A.K. Dewdney)
10/1993 Fox Trot: The Works (Bill Amend)
10/1993 Inside Macintosh: Overview
10/1993 Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
10/1993 The Difference Engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling)
08/1993 California Voodoo Game (Niven, Barnes) (3rd in Dream Park series)
08/1993 Last Chance To See (Douglas Adams, audio/video CD on Mac)
07/1993 Biggest Secrets (William Poundstone)
06/1993 Achilles' Choice (Larry Niven, Steven Barnes)
06/1993 Footfall (Niven, Pournelle. Like Lucifer's Hammer but with aliens.)
05/1993 The Mote In God's Eye (Niven)
05/1993 Rising Sun (Michael Crichton)
05/1993 Burning Chrome (William Gibson stories)
04/1993 Hard Sell (Piers Anthony)
04/1993 The Terminal Man (Crichton, 197x)
03/1993 Shampoo Planet (Douglas Coupland, sequel to Generation X)
03/1993 The Year's Best Science Fiction, 9th annual collection (92) (Gardner Dozois)
02/1993 Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles (Don Norman)
01/1993 (Swihart's system 7 book)
01/1993 Inside Mac: Overview
01/1993 Countdown to the Millenium
01/1993 The Lazlo Letters (Don Novello)
01/1993 Scandal Annual 1993
01/1993 A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
01/1993 Lila (Robert M Pirsig)
12/1992 The Medium is the Massage (McLuhan)
12/1992 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M Pirsig)
11/1992 Count Zero (Gibson, VEB)
11/1992 The Garden of Rama (Clarke, Gentry Lee)
11/1992 The Barsoom Project (Niven, Barnes) (sequel to Dream Park)
11/1992 A Hole in Space (Niven)
11/1992 The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT (Stewart Brand)
10/1992 Convergent Series (Niven)
10/1992 Mostly Harmless (Adams)
10/1992 Limits (Niven)
10/1992 Sphere (Crichton)
10/1992 Dream Park (Niven+Barnes)
10/1992 Inside Macintosh:Processes
10/1992 Inside Macintosh:Memory
10/1992 Lucifer's Hammer (Niven+Pournelle)
09/1992 Life's Little Destruction Book (___)
09/1992 Neuromancer (William Gibson, VEB)
09/1992 Playgrounds of the Mind (Niven) (includes "The Soft Weapon")
08/1992 Mathematics and Humor (John Allen Paulos)
08/1992 Explorations (Poul Anderson?)
08/1992 N-Space (Niven)
07/1992 The Cartoon Guide to Physics (___)
06/1992 Ringworld Engineers (Niven)
06/1992 Ringworld (Niven)
xx/1992 Generation X (Douglas Coupland)
xx/1992 Gateway, The Gateway Trip, Heechee Rendezvous, The Annals of the Heechee (Frederik Pohl)
xx/1992 Beyond Innumeracy (John Allen Paulos)
xx/1992 Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton, VEB = Voyager Electronic Book)
xx/1991 Innumeracy (John Allen Paulos)
xx/1990 Rama II (Clarke)
xx/1989 What Do You Care What Other People Think (Feynman)
xx/1989 Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
xx/198x The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Adams)
xx/198x Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Adams)
xx/198x So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish (Adams)
xx/198x The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Adams)
xx/198x Life, the Universe, and Everything (Adams)
xx/198x The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
xx/198x 2001, 2010, 2061 (Clarke)
xx/198x Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke)
xx/198x Contact (Sagan)
xx/198x Foundation trilogy (Asimov) (twice)
70s+80s lots of Heinlein (when Mike (the computer) died in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, I cried)