Great finds again at this year's sale:
Sci-FiHoly Fire by Bruce Sterling
Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Science Non-Fiction
The four following authors spoke at the Origins Symposium I attended last year (3 of which I saw):
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Hiding in the Mirror by Lawrence m. Krauss (the head of the Origins Iniative at ASU and author of several 'Physics of ...' books)
Present at the Future by Ira Flatow (host of Science Friday on NPR
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
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Science Friction by Michael Shermer
Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw (Cox was on Colbert recently discussing this book
Political
Truth and Consequences by Keith Olbermann
Hot, Flat & Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
Straight Talk from the Heartland by Ed Schultz
The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson (Valerie Plame's husband)
Adventure/Climbing
I'm a nut for books about mountain climbing:
The Hill by Ed Hommer
Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
No Shorcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 comments:
Cool. There's some good reading in there!
Nice, I always like the the morgan books, and I've always meant to read the algebriast.
I already had Morgan's Altered Carbon but hadn't had a chance to read it yet. I'm always looking for authors that tread some of the similar paths of Gibson and Neal Stephenson because I really like their books. Someone had recommended Morgan to me.
I hadn't heard of the Algebraist before but it sounded like a cool book.
dbackdad said: I hadn't heard of the Algebraist before but it sounded like a cool book.
Oh, I think you may have read the review on my Blog.... possibly....
CK - You are correct sir!
http://cyberkittenspot.blogspot.com/2008/08/just-finished-reading-algebraist-by.html
There was a thin wisp of familiarity when I saw the book, and I didn't know why at the time. Now I know why. After re-reading your review, I want to read it all the more. Well done CK.
Sorry, but I would've posted the URL but we were saving the world for democracy for the past 2 hours [phew]
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