This summer, I plan to do quite a bit of reading. I'm interested in solid near-future sci-fi, enduring classical literature (not Jane Eyre so much as Aristotle) and nonfiction addressing, say, cultural shifts driven by technology.
In that vein, I am currently reading Rheingold's Smart Mobs; The Annotated Alice; and I just finished a handful of William Gibson novels.
Other items on my list are probably The Confusion and some translation or other of the Koran.
Most especially, though, I'd like to read books I hadn't heard of but desperately want to read. Any suggestions?
Posted by andrea at May 13, 2004 10:17 AMSimplistic recommendations:
Headcrash - Bethke
Diamond Age - Stephenson
The Golden Compass - Pullman
Aegypt - Crowley
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Jones
The Grey King - Cooper
Pale Fire - Nabokov
House of Leaves - Danielewski
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Van Allsburg
The Venetian's Wife - Bantock
Who Murdered Evan Chan? - Sean Stewart
(I still wish that could have happened..)
I haven't read scifi in a while now! It's quite bad, I did like reading:
Halflife - Hal Clement
The Reality Dysfunction Trilogy - Peter Hamilton
and.. at the moment I'm reading Cryptonomicon (stephenson) A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin, and The entire x-men series from beginning to now (I'm a nerd, yes?)
Posted by: nick on May 13, 2004 08:17 PM