Today’s additions to my to-be-read pile
by Rob - August 26th, 2008.Filed under: Uncategorized.
I got asked in my Yahoo! Groups newsgroup today what was in my to-be-read pile.
Well, as it happens, my favorite ebook retailer, Fictionwise.com, is having a big sale right now, so I picked up the 27 books below. Some — Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot; William Gibson’s Neuromancer; and James Alan Gardner’s brilliant collection Gravity Wells — I already had in dead-tree editions; the rest are things that I think I’ll enjoy reading:
- 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
- Adapting Your Novel for Film by Pauline Baird Jones
- The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
- City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
- Declare by Tim Powers
- Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis
- Going for Infinity by Poul Anderson
- Gravity Wells by James Alan Gardner
- Guerrilla P.R. 2.0: Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign Without Going Broke by Michael Levine
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Ilium by Dan Simmons
- Olympos by Dan Simmons
- Lilith’s Brood [Xenogenesis Series Omnibus] by Octavia E. Butler
- Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Orson Scott Card
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Odyssey: Deluxe Edition by Homer & Robert Fagles
- Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman
- The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms by Oxford University Press
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Saturn’s Children: A Space Opera by Charles Stross
- Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician’s Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Michael Shermer
- Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex, and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple by Jeffrey Kluger
- Speaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors by Darrell Schweitzer
- The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
- Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
- The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream by John Zogby
First up, I think, will be Charlie Stross’s new one …
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