Books To Read

acquired December 2009

• The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy by Rick Beyer
• The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore W. Gray
• The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World by Zack Lynch
• The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain by Zoltan Torey
• Think Smart: A Neuroscientist' s Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance by Richard Restak
• The Bit and the Pendulum
• NASA Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual: 1969 (including Saturn V, CM-107, SM-107, LM-5) (NASA Mission Reports) by Christopher Riley
• Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope: Shuttle Atlantis - 2009 by Dennis R. Jenkins
• Earth From Space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Andrew K. Johnston

acquired December 2008

• Mars 3-D
• Astronomica ($30 from Costco, weighs about 18 pounds)
• Late Show Fun Facts
• ...more...

acquired March 2008

• The Big U (Neal Stephenson) (from Monte)
• The Book of General Ignorance (from Bakers)
• Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver Anniversary Edition (Weinberg) (from Bakers)

acquired January 2008

• The Body Has a Mind of its Own
• Jin Sato's Lego Mindstorms: The Master's Technique

acquired December 2007

• Avoid Boring People (James D. Watson)
• Nonplussed!
• The Stuff of Thought (Steven Pinker)
• What is Your Dangerous Idea?
• That's Not in My Science Book
• Living With Parkinson's Disease
• Ig Nobel Prizes
• Gardener's Whys & Wherefores
• Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
• What We Believe But Cannot Prove
• Anti Gravity

To Buy

• 12:01pm (Richard Lupoff, short story) [ask Future Fantasy ?? says Stacy's guy]

Begun But Not Finished Yet

• A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge)
• Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
• The Humane Interface (Jef Raskin)
• Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and other Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Robert B. Banks)
• How To Fix Damn Near Everything
• Grammatical Man
• Impossibility
• Parent in Control
• Journey to the Centers of the Mind
• The Quark and the Jaguar
• GENIUS: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
• Effective C++

Have Them, But Haven't Read Them

• Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the promise of Democracy (Andro Linklater)
• Oxford Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (Donald Fenna)
• The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (from the Bakers)
• Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Robert B. Banks) (from the Bakers)
• Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe (John D. Barrow)
• Moving Mars (Greg Bear)
• Earth (David Brin)
• Songs of Earth & Power (Greg Bear)
• Shopgirl (Steve Martin)
• The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
• ST:TNG: "I, Q" (John de Lancie and Peter David)
• Physics for Game Developers (Luke/James)
• Thinking Physics, 3rd edition : Understandable Practical Reality (Luke/James)
• Galileo & The Dolphins
• Best SF of the Year, 1980
• Inside Risks (Peter G Neumann)
• Reality Rules I
• Mike Resnick: _Book of Man_
• Writing Solid Code
• Personal Finance for Dummies
• Kinds of Minds
• Being Digital
• Up the Infinite Corridor
• Computer Power and Human Reason (Weisenbaum)
• Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• The Evolution of Useful Things
• The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
• Cradle (Arthur C Clarke)
• Lord of the Rings series (Tolkien) (everything after The Hobbit)
• The Society of Mind (Minsky?)
• The Architecture Machine (Negroponte)
• The Connection Machine
• Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson, VEB)
• The Mythical Man Month
• Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
• Into the Out Of
• Out of the Everywhere (Asimov)
• The Cartoon History of the Universe
• The Cartoon History of the United States
• Isaac Asimov, the Complete Stories vol 1 (Asimov, VEB)
• The Pelican Brief (VEB)
• The Mind's Sky (VEB)
• The Man/Kzin Wars (Niven)
• The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
• The Day the Universe Changed (Burke)
• Technologies of Freedom: On Free Speech in an Electonic Age (Sola Pool, 1983)
• Shockwave Rider (John Brunner)
• True Names (Vernor Vinge)
• Engines of Creation (Eric Drexler)
• Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
• James Bond: Win, Lose, or Die (John Gardner)
• Kilobyte (Piers Anthony, out when?)

Recommended to me

• Peter McInerney recommends:
  • Blood Music (Greg Bear)
  • Fairyland (Paul J. McCarthy)
• jimluther@mac.com has 3 books that are sequels to Foundation (by Greg Bear et al)

Authors

• Gregory Benford (ref Media Lab)
• James Hogan (ref Media Lab)
• John Campbell (ref Media Lab)
• Marshall McLuhan
• Michael Crichton
• Neal Stephenson
• Larry Niven
• Pournelle
• Pohl
• Dyson
• Piers Anthony (for example, Macroscope)
• Roger Schank (of The Cognitive Computer, 1984)