Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction – Alec Nevala-Lee
Ever wanted to read something gossip-columny about sci-fi authors? Yea, me neither…
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
A book designed to teach kids how to read and enjoy novels.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI – Yuval Noah Harari
Kind of another book on AI, but Harari has interesting things to say
Way Station – Clifford D. Simak
A short novel about a man managing a way station, and despite this, it is suprisingly good.
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing – Jamie Holmes
Whether it likes it or not, this is a self-help book.
Recursion – Blake Crouch
Did I just read the same novel again? Crouch gives me that impression
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires – Tim Wu
Companies that manage information will always try to be monopolies.
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Oil! – Upton Sinclair
A classic novel that might not be read too much anymore, it has some pretty contemporary themes. Written from back when an American could also be a socialist
The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason – John V. Fleming
The enlightenment produced a lot of good ideas, but it also had a whole lot of really terrible ones.
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Vonneut’s most famous novel, largely not about a person being un-stuck in time.
Failures in Polymathy 