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====== Roy Fischler ( royf@bellsouth.net ): (** = most highly recommended)
==== books:
=== non-fiction:
== science-related:
Asimov, Isaac :
== science:
The Universe - from flat earth to quasar
The Neutrino
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
== science essay anthologies:
Only a Trillion
Science Past, Science Future
The Beginning and the End
Today and Tomorrow and ...
Is Anyone There?
Life and Time
= Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction science essay series:
Fact and Fancy
Adding a Dimension
Of Time and Space and Other Things
From Earth to Heaven
Science, Numbers and I
The Solar System and Back
The Stars in Their Courses
The Left Hand of the Electron
The Tragedy of the Moon
Of Matters Great and Small
The Planet That Wasn't
Quasar, Quasar Burning Bright
The Road to Infinity
The Sun Shines Bright
Counting the Eons
X Stands for Unknown
The Subatomic Monster
Far as Human Eye Could See
The Relativity of Wrong
The Secret of the Universe
= L. A. Times science essay series:
Frontiers
Frontiers II
== on science fiction:
Asimov on Science Fiction
Asimov's Universe
== autobiography:
I. Asimov
Casti, John:
Complexification
Damasio, Antonio:
Descarte's Error
Dawkins, Richard:
The Selfish Gene **
The Extended Phenotype **
The Blind Watchmaker
River out of Eden
Climbing Mount Improbable
Dennett, Daniel:
Consciousness Explained
Darwin's Dangerous Idea **
Feynman, Richard:
= autobiographical essays:
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Adventures of a curious character
What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Further adventures of a curious character
Gardner, Martin:
Science: Good, Bad and Bogus
Gould, Stephen Jay:
Wonderful Life **
= Natural History Magazine science essay series:
Ever Since Darwin
The Panda's Thumb
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Eight Little Piggies
The Flamingo's Smile
Bully for Brontosaurus
I Have Landed
= anthology of book reviews:
An Urchin in the Storm
Hofstadter, Douglas:
Godel, Escher, Bach **
Mathematical Themas
Kurzweil, Ray:
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Singularity Is Near
Olsen, Steve:
Mapping Human History - Genes, Race and Our Common Origins
O'Neill, Gerard K.:
The High Frontier - Human Colonies in Space **
Pinker, Steven:
The Language Instinct **
How the Mind Works **
The Blank Slate **
Regis, Ed:
The Great Mambo Chicken and the Trans-Human Condition
Nano - The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology **
Rucker, Rudy:
Infinity and the Mind **
The Fourth Dimension
Sacks, Oliver:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
A Leg To Stand On
Sagan, Carl:
The Cosmic Connection **
The Dragons of Eden **
= science essay anthology:
Broca's Brain **
Shermer, Michael:
Why People Believe Weird Things
Vinge, Vernor:
= essay anthology by various authors:
True Names - And the opening of the cyberspace frontier
== sociology, futurology:
Aronowitz, Stanley & DiFazio, William:
The Jobless Future
Kahn, Herman:
The Next 200 Years
Toffler, Alvin:
The Third Wave **
Powershift
War and Anti-War
Toulmin, Stephen:
Cosmopolis - The hidden agenda of modernity
== politics:
Black, Edwin:
Banking on Baghdad
Brock, David:
Blinded by the Right
Ehrenreich, Barbara:
The Worst Years of Our Lives
Fear of Falling - The secret life of the middle class
The Snarling Citizen
=== science speculation / science fiction:
Pournelle, Jerry:
A Step Farther Out
The Endless Frontier
The Endless Frontier Volume II
Baen, James:
Destinies - Volume 1 #4
Destinies - Volume 2 #1
Destinies - Volume 2 #2
Destinies - Volume 3 #2
Pournelle, Jerry & Baen, James:
Far Frontiers
Far Frontiers - Volume 7
Savage, Marshall:
The Millennial Project - Colonizing the Galaxy in 8 Easy Steps
=== fiction:
== science fiction:
Asimov, Isaac:
== novels:
The End of Eternity **
The Gods Themselves **
Fantastic Voyage II
Nemesis
Nightfall (with Robert Silverberg)
= Lije Bailey robot detective series:
The Caves of Steel **
The Naked Sun **
The Robots of Dawn **
Robots and Empire **
= galactic empire series:
Pebble in the Sky
The Stars, Like Dust
The Currents of Space
= Foundation series:
Foundation **
Foundation and Empire **
Second Foundation **
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation **
Forward the Foundation
== short story anthologies:
Nine Tomorrows **
Buy Jupiter, And Other Stories **
The Bicentennial Man, And Other Stories **
Nightfall, And Other Stories **
The Martian Way, And Other Stories
Earth is Room Enough
Gold
The Early Asimov, Book 1
The Early Asimov, Book 2
= robot series:
I, Robot **
Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots
== short story anthologies of various authors:
Before the Golden Age, Book 2
Before the Golden Age, Book 3
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
== anthology of mystery short stories:
The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
Clarke, Arthur C.:
The Nine Billion Names of God
2001: A Space Odyssey
Gerrold, David:
The Man Who Folded Himself **
Gibson, William:
Neuromancer
Heinlein, Robert:
= anthology of Future History series short stories:
The Past Through Tomorrow **
= novels:
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Time Enough for Love
The Number of the Beast
Tunnel in the Sky
Farnham's Freehold
Friday
I Will Fear No Evil
Herbert, Frank:
Dune
Knight, Damon:
A For Anything
Le Guin, Ursala:
The Lathe of Heaven
The Disposessed
Sagan, Carl:
Contact **
== humorous science fiction:
Adams, Douglas:
= Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy **
Life, The Universe, and Everything **
The Restaurant At the End Of the Universe **
So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish **
Mostly Harmless **
== regular fiction:
Heller, Joseph:
Catch-22 **
=== about Star Trek:
Whitfield, Stephen & Roddenberry, Gene:
The Making of Star Trek
Gerrold, David:
The World of Star Trek
The Troubles With Tribbles
Okrand, Marc:
The Klingon Dictionary
=== humor:
Allen, Woody:
Without Feathers
Barry, Dave:
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
Dave Barry is NOT Making This Up
Dave Barry Talks Back
Dave Barry's Bad Habits
All the Dave Barry You Could Ever Want
Larson, Gary:
The Far Side Gallery 1
The Far Side Gallery 2
The Far Side Gallery 3
==== videos:
== DVDs:
Monty Python's The Life of Brian **
====== Jeanette Madea ( cfifll@aol.com )
==== books:
Bartholomew, Robert and Radford, Benjamin:
Hoaxes, Myths and Manias
Bird, Kai and Sherwin, Martin:
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Blaker, Kimberly:
The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America
Boston, Rob:
Why the Religious Right is Wrong
Brunvard, Jan:
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Too Good to be True
Dawkins, Richard:
The God Delusion
The Blind Watchmaker
Unweaving the Rainbow
Dyson, Freeman:
Disturbing the Universe
Flynn, Tom:
The Truth About Christmas
Galactic Rapture
Nothing Sacred
Frazier, Kendrick (Ed.):
Science Confronts the Paranormal
Gardner, Martin:
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
Gel-Mann, Murray:
The Quark and the Jaquar
Harris, Sam:
The End of Faith
Hecht, Jennifer:
The End of the Soul
Doubt
Jacoby, Susan:
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Kitcher, Philip:
Abusing Science
Klein, Marty:
America's War on Sex
Kurtz, Paul (Ed.):
Skeptical Odysseys
LaRue, Gerald:
The Supernatural, the Occult, and the Bible
Lederman, Leon:
The God Particle
Nickel, Joe:
Looking for a Miracle
Entities
Mysterious Realms
Nielsen, Kai:
Ethics Without God
Plait, Phil:
Bad Astronomy
Price, Robert:
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man
Randi, James:
Flim-Flam
The Mask of Nostradamus
Faith Healer
Rhodes, Richard:
The Making of the Atom Bomb
Deadly Feasts
Dark Sun
Sagan, Carl:
Billions and Billions
Shermer, Michael:
The Science of Good and Evil
How We Believe
Why People Believe Weird Things
Science Friction
The Borderlands of Science
Simanek, Donald and Holden, John:
Science Askew: A Light-Hearted Look at the Scientific World
Smith, George:
Atheism - The Case Against God
Stenger, Victor:
God: The Failed Hypothesis
Stewart, Jon:
America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Wanjek, Christopher:
Bad Medicine
Wynn, Charles and Wiggins, Arthur:
Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction
