(more…)this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o…
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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Category: Books
Recommended reading
Arthur C. Clarke
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The Sands of Mars |
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Childhood’s End |
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The City and the Stars |
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The Deep Range |
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Glide Path |
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Rendezvous with Rama |
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Imperial Earth |
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The Fountains of Paradise |
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The Songs of Distant Earth |
A Space Odyssey | |
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2001: a Space Odyssey |
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2010: Odyssey Two |
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2061: Odyssey Three |
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3001: The Final Odyssey |
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The Last Theorem – Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl |
Erik Larson
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War |
Leonard Susskind
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The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design |
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics |
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An Introduction To Black Holes, Information and The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe – Leonard Susskind & James Lindesay |
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The Theoretical Minimum – Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky |
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Quantum Mechanics (The Theoretical Minimum) – Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman |
Tim Powers
Stephen Baxter
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The Time Ships |
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Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice |
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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds |
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Galaxias |
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The Thousand Earths |
Xeelee Sequence | |
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Xeelee An Omnibus
• Raft • Timelike Infinity • Flux • Ring |
NASA Trilogy | |
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Voyage |
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Titan |
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Moonseed |
Manifold Trilogy | |
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Manifold: Time |
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Manifold: Space |
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Manifold: Origin |
Time’s Tapestry | |
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Emperor |
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Conqueror |
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Navigator |
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Weaver |
Proxima / Ultima | |
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Proxima |
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Ultima |
World Engines | |
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World Engines: Destroyer |
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World Engines: Creator |
A Time Odyssey | |
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Time’s Eye (Time Odyssey Book 1) – Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter |
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Sunstorm – Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter |
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Firstborn – Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter |
The Long Earth | |
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The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter |
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The Long War – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter |
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The Long Mars – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter |
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The Long Utopia – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter |
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The Long Cosmos – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter |
Bloomsday
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(more…)Maritime History
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel |
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Frigate Commander – Tom Wareham |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette – Hampton Sides |
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The Pirate Wars – Peter Earle |
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The Civil War at Sea – Craig L. Symonds |
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In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine – Rachel Lance |
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War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II – Nathan Miller |
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Hellcats of the Sea: Operation Barney and the Mission to the Sea of Japan – Charles A. Lockwood & Hans C. Adamson |
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The Vikings: A History – Robert Ferguson |
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson |
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