Read My Mind!

This started out to be a bunch of book reviews, but then, who am I to review these books? So instead look at this as a reading list that gives you some idea of what's on my mind.

I've supplied a link for each title. I don't have any sort of deal with bestwebbuys.com. But since they offer various sources and find low prices I thought readers might appreciate the link. Many of these books are available for free download, see "links" above. This list is always a bit out of date and I gave up listing papers. Someday I'll try to update it with some of the most intersting. If a paper is online I often link to it from my blog.

I haven't updated this for many months, so it's hopelessly out of date.


Non-Fiction
The Salmon of Doubt -- Douglas Adams
Death March -- Edward Yourdon
Surprised by the Power of the Spirit -- Jack Deere
The Elements of Style -- Strunk and White
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature -- Phillip Martin
Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life -- Stephen Webb
Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction -- Cory Doctorow, Karl Schroeder
Modern Compiler Design -- Grune, Bal et. al.
Characters & Viewpoint -- Orson Scott Card
Lisp (3rd Edition) -- Patrick Henry Henry Winston , Berthold Klaus, Paul Horn
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely talks about -- Donald E. Knuth
Interpreting Lisp -- Gary D. Knott
On Writing - Stephen King
Plot - Ansen Dibell
Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
The Forest for the Trees - Betsy Lerner
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy - Orson Scott Card
Lorentzian Wormholes - Matt Visser
Borderlands of Science - Charles Sheffield
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software - Stephen Johnson


Fiction
Shadows Over Baker Street -- Michael Reeves and John Pelan (editors)
The Atrocity Archives -- Charles Stross
Jennifer Government -- Max Barry
Lovecraft -- Hans Rodionoff, et al
Mutineer's Moon -- David Webber
The Cockatrice Boys -- Joan Aiken
Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
Agents of Light and Darkness -- Simon R. Green
Singularity Sky -- Charles Stross
A Fire Upon the Deep -- Vernor Vinge
Live Without a Net -- Edited by Lou Anders
Tales from Orion's Arm -- various
Quest for Cthulhu -- August Derleth
Ring -- Stephen Baxter
Equal Rites -- Terry Pratchett
Moving Pictures -- Terry Pratchett
Another Roadside Attraction -- Tom Robbins
After The Plague -- T.C. Boyle
Ultimate Silver Surfer -- Stan Lee (Editor)
American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
Look To Windward - Ian M. Banks
Writers of the Future XVIII - Algis Budrys (Editor)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
The Procedure - Harry Mulisch
War With the Newts - Karel Capek
Mother of Demons - Eric Flint
Wizard's Bane - Rick Cook
Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
Beyond Life - James Branch Cabell


Papers etc.
I find it harder to keep this section up to date. Somehow I don't remember to update this when I read a paper. I'll try to do some catch up soon. I've read some interesting stuff lately.

Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in Heterogenous Environments
Project Ace - This isn't the actual paper. The paper I read is still internal, but this is the public site.
JINI specification - Sun Microsystems Inc.
Finding Bugs is Easy (a bug pattern matching tool for Java) - David Hovemeyer and William Pugh




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