Good Books

In no particular order:

Jumper by Steven C. Gould. Plus the sequels Reflex, and Griffin's Story.
The Other End by John Shirley.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
The End of Faith by Sam Harris.
The Third Chimpanzee and Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson.
The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, and The Pool of Fire by John Christopher.
His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman.
The Straight Dope series by Cecil Adams. (Cures ignorance).
Aztec by Gary Jennings.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.
The Year's Best Science Fiction annual anthology edited by Gardner Dozois.
The Stand by Stephen King.
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Should be required reading for everyone).
The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. **** 4 stars!
Diaspora by Greg Egan. Also check out his short story collections.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
Dune by Frank Herbert. (6 book series, ignore the new books by his son)
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Travels by Michael Crichton. His last good book was Jurassic Park.
Hocus Pocus and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman.
Shogun, Taipan, and King Rat by James Clavell.
Iron and Silk, and Lost in Place by Mark Salzman.
The Book by Alan Watts.
The Alvin Maker Series by Orson Scott Card.The first two are the best.
The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben (Read this!).
Silicon Snake Oil by Cliff Stoll.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Ringworld by Larry Niven. I don't recommend his recent work.
The Mind's Eye by Daniel C. Dennet, and Douglas Hofstadter.
The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka by Jacek Yerka.
The Fourth Dimension and Transreal by Rudy Rucker (who used to teach at my college, SUNY Geneseo).
And anything by Charles Stross, John Wyndham, Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, and of course Kurt Vonnegut.

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