Recommend Reading


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GURPS Cyberpunk

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Science fiction actually makes programming and other stuff more fun at times. Especially if you are not a pro.

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Shalimar the Clown

By Salman Rushdie. Let me just quote the Led Zeppelin song here: "My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again. Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir."

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Getting Real by 37signals

Highly recommend this book. "The smarter, faster, easier way to build successful web applications".

http://gettingreal.37signals.com

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Altered Carbon

By Richard K. Morgan. First of the Takeshi Kovacs Novels

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Geek Mafia

By Rick Dakan
Fun geeky book, best of all you can get it for free as it is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works License.

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Old Man's War

By John Scalzi. Feeling insecure about your retirement plan lately? What if the deal was that you get to have a brand new body, as long as you use it to fight off the nasty aliens? Also check out the sequels, The Ghost Brigades and The Last Colony.

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The Kite Runner

By Khaled Hosseini. Compelling tale of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

By Scott Lynch. Alternate world of honor among theives - more or less - involving clever schemes and plot twists.

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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel

By Julia Keller. An avidly written case study in American innovation.

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The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo

By Al Capp. A brief sub-plot within the Li'l Abner comic strip, this subversive look at the downside of utopia - a paradise of ease supplied by innocent and helpful critters called Shmoos - was wildly popular when it hit the news stands for a four-month run in 1948. It needs to be passed down through the generations.

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By Michael Chabon. Award winning detective story set in an alternate history, near future, Jewish settlement in Alaska.

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This topic was started by squiggle squiggle: 692 points on November 14th, 2008. 9 members have voted on one or more of the 11 answers.

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