 | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) | Edwin A. Abbott |  |
| Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. <... |
 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| To start off, I think this book is a masterpiece of ideas and science fiction. That said, I'll begin by mentioning what I see as my one significant squabble with the book. |
 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick |  |
| Yes everybody who gives this such a bad review wants the definite Hollywood ending that makes everything so clear, but No Dick's genius is way more complex than that and he wants you to think, to be a part of the ending and beyond, not just be some spectator being hand-fed in a movie theater(majorit... |
 | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason | Sam Harris | |
| Sam Harris cranks out blunt, hard-hitting chapters to make his case for why faith itself is the most dangerous element of modern life. And if the devil's in the details, then you'll find Satan waiting at the back of the book in the very substantial notes section where Harris saves his more esoteric... |
 | The Jesus Incident | Frank Herbert | |
| i couldn't help but feel sorry for the obvious villains of this work.ever since introducing them to the scene they never seemed to pose any sort of threat to the kind of god-like powers Herbert always instills to his good guys.much like in the Dune series where the omnipotent kwisatz haderach foils ... |
 | At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror | H. P. Lovecraft | |
| H. P. Lovecraft is the father of modern horror. His stories are infused with more style and substance that many modern horror novels of 300+ pages - and most of his stories are short, in the tens of pages. Lovecraft is the master of the eerie and foreboding. A constant sense of dread, uncertainty... |
 | Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (Princeton Science Library) | Rudy Rucker |  |
| Rudy Rucker deals with the concept of Infinity in regard to our mental conceptions and the structure of reality. The question is whether or not the concept of Infinity makes sense, and then the relation of finite thought and human consciousness relates to the possibility of infinites in the structu... |
 | Frek and the Elixir | Rudy Rucker | |
| I fell in love with Rucker's work after reading Spaceland, and Frek and the Elixir proved to be yet another science and literary masterpiece. Rucker makes the most complex aspects of science obtainable to the average reader who has a bit of imagination. Rucker is a pure creative genius. Frek and ... |
 | Schismatrix Plus (Complete Shapers-Mechanists Universe) | Bruce Sterling | |
| Bruce Sterling has called his Shaper/Mechanist novel Schismatrix "my favorite among my books." It is a detailed history of a spacefaring humanity divided into two camps: The Shapers, who prefer genetic enhancements, and the Mechanists, who rely on prosthetics. Sterling also published five Sha... |
 | Accelerando | Charles Stross | |
| This novel covers three generations of the Macx family, and how they cope with technological progress from the years just prior to the Singularity (for those who are unfamiliar with the term Singularity, it just refers to a time of extremely rapid technological development, actually feeding upon its... |
 | 20th Century Science Fiction- | David G. Hartwell | ![]() |
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