Category: Books

Recommended reading

Stephen Baxter


The Time Ships
Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice
The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

NASA Trilogy
Voyage
Titan
Moonseed

Manifold Trilogy
Manifold: Time
Manifold: Space
Manifold: Origin

Time’s Tapestry
Emperor
Conqueror
Navigator
Weaver

Proxima / Ultima
Proxima
Ultima

The Long Earth
The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long War – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Mars – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Utopia – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Cosmos – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

Newtonian Swag: 2018

The Fall of Gondolin – J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life – Frank Zappa
LEGO James Bond Aston Martin DB5
LEGO BrickHeadz _Homer Simpson & Krusty The Clown
POP AD Icons: Bob’s Big Boy

Kim Stanley Robinson


Icehenge
Escape From Kathmandu
A Short Sharp Shock
Antarctica
The Martians
The Years of Rice and Salt
Galileo’s Dream
2312
Shaman
Aurora
Green Earth
New York 2140

Three Californias (Orange County trilogy, Orange County triptych)
The Wild Shore
The Gold Coast
Pacific Edge

The Mars Trilogy
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars

Science in the Capital
Forty Signs of Rain
Fifty Degrees Below
Sixty Days and Counting

J. R. R. Tolkien


The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales – J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor)
The Children of Hurin
Beren and Lúthien
The Annotated Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (Editor)
The Art of The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Christina Scull (Editor), & Wayne G. Hammond (Editor)

Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún – J.R.R. Tolkien

Biography

Isaac Newton – James Gleick
Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence – Jeremy Wilson
Miles: The Autobiography – Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir – Thomas Dolby
So, Anyway… – John Cleese
The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room – Rainn Wilson
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space – Eugene Cernan & Don Davis
Flight My Life in Mission Control – Christopher C. Kraft
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond – Gene Kranz
Deke!: U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle – Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt (Contributor)
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician – Anthony Everitt
Caesar – Christian Meier
Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography – Peter Green
Henry V – Christopher Allmand
Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow

Graphic Novels


Futurama-O-Rama – Matt Groening, et al.
Watchmen – Alan Moore (Author), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)
Chasing Dogma – Kevin Smith, Duncan Fegredo (Illustrator), Alanis Morissette (Introduction)
The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable – Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby (Illustrator)
The Sandman
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith (Illustrator), & Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator)
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator), & Malcolm Jones III (Illustrator)
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country – Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones (Illustrator) & Charles Vess (Illustrator)
The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones (Illustrator), & Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator)
The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman, et al.
The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflection – Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (Illustrator), Shawn McManus (Illustrator)
The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives – Neil Gaiman (Author), Jill Thompson (Illustrator), Vince Locke (Illustrator)
The Sandman Vol. 8: World’s End – Neil Gaiman, et al.
The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones – Neil Gaiman, et al.
The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake – Neil Gaiman, et al.