- David Marr: "Vision" The foundations of computational neroscience - and lots of practial demonstrations of how your eyes and brain work. - Daniel Dennett "C

- David Marr: "Vision" The foundations of computational neroscience - and lots of practial demonstrations of how your eyes and brain work. - Daniel Dennett "Consciousness Explained" How the mind works? - J.E Gordon: "The new Science of Strog Materials" & " Structures, or why things don't fall down." How is 'stuff' strong/hard? - Steve Grand: "Creation" & "Growing up with Lucy" The programmer behind the game 'Creatures' and his adventures in artificial life. - Joseph Campbell: "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" Never look at Star Wars in the same way again. - David Deutch: "The Fabric of Reality" Many worlds or mad as a box of frogs? - Richard Leakey & Roger Lewin: "The Sixth Extinction" We're doomed - maybe - Braitenberg: "Vehicles" Emergent behaviour from simple rules - Ian Wilmut, Keith Cambell & Colin Tudge: "The Second Creation" How Dolly the Sheep was made. Takes you through the background such that you can read & understand their paper which appears at the end. - John Brunner: "The Shockwaver Rider" Snowcrash - hah! - 1975 and this dude got it already. Other general authors: Martin Gardner, Greg Egan (lots of free stuff on his site).