Currently Reading:
| The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle |
Category: Books
Recommended reading
Graham Greene
Harlan Ellison
Maritime History
| Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel | |
| The Endurance : Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition – Caroline Alexander | |
| The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty – Caroline Alexander | |
| The Pirate Wars – Peter Earle | |
| The Civil War at Sea – Craig L. Symonds | |
| In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine – Rachel Lance | |
| War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II – Nathan Miller | |
| Hellcats of the Sea: Operation Barney and the Mission to the Sea of Japan – Charles A. Lockwood & Hans C. Adamson | |
| The Vikings: A History – Robert Ferguson | |
| Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson |
Science
| Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein | |
| QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard P. Feynman | |
| The Anthropic Principle: Man as the Focal Point of Nature – Reinhard Breuer | |
| Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?) – Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw | |
| The Origin of the Universe – John D. Barrow | |
| The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) – Katie Mack | |
| The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe – Paul Davies | |
| The Origin of Humankind – Richard Leakey | |
| The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine – Charles Petzold |
Census Update
| Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff – Sean Penn |
Your Church Lied to You
One has to wonder if “Dr.” Michael E. Schmidt’s upcoming book*, Your Church Lied to You, will be full of the misspellings, run on sentences, ill-formed paragraphs, and poorly reasoned arguments which have plagued all his other writings.
Dune Trailer:
Dune Official Trailer
(more…)Science Fiction
| The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester | |
| Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner | |
| Time and Again – Jack Finney | |
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The Final Planet – Andrew M. Greeley |
| Fatherland – Robert Harris | |
| Planet of the Damned – Harry Harrison | |
| Brave New World – Aldous Huxley | |
| Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 – Doris Lessing | |
| The Road – Cormac McCarthy | |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jr. | |
| Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell | |
| Contact – Carl Sagan | |
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man – H.F. Saint |
| The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan – Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson | |
| Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure – Edward E. Smith | |
| Star Maker – William Olaf Stapledon | |
| The Guns of the South – Harry Turtledove | |
| Slan – A. E. Van Vogt | |
| Who Censored Roger Rabbit? – Gary K. Wolf |