Age of the Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil
How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.
Science-Fiction
I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison
Even if one doesn’t particularly like short stories, one cannot help but admit that Harlan was a master of the craft.
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Woken Furies – Richard K. Morgan
Richard K Morgan writes science-fiction so bad that it makes me dislike myself for liking science-fiction.
Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
The controversy around Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Starship Troopers’ is about as interesting as the book itself.
Contact – Carl Sagan
This is one of the most rich and complex book I have read in some time.
The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock
Have you ever been so utterly confused by a book that you later became convinced that you didn’t really read it?
The Refrigerator Monologues – Catherynne M Valente
Did you ever think that there was something missing from a story only to realize that someone part of the narrative has been left out? That’s what this book is about.
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Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
In a future where governments are disappearing and corporations have taken over, a virus is being used to take over the world…
Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
Bright future ahead? I mean, maybe. It could also be rather bleak. Max Tegmark thinks that it all depends on what we prepare for.
Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
A mysterious soviet research institute is best described as… kind of zany.
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Failures in Polymathy 