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Ask HN: What books should I read this summer?

• notsag-hn 6y ago
  I'm going to recommend you the last one I read and loved so much: Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick. What a legend OMG!
  • zevv 6y ago
    Looks good, on the shopping list!
• kwawmannanjnr 6y ago
  How innovation works
  • zevv 6y ago
    Steam power, patents and the infinite improbability drive. This one goes on the list!
• realpanzer 6y ago
  For sci-fi/dystopian I really liked Sea of Rust, Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, Midworld, Of Men And Monsters, Metro 2033, Wool, The Maiden Voyage of The Destiny Unknown, The Electric State ...
  • zevv 6y ago
    Ah, Childhood's End I was once on my list but I never got to read it, thanks!
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• giantg2 6y ago
  I've seen a few similar threads on so far. Here are ones that I've added to my list (haven't gotten to read them yet). Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, permutation city, diaspora, quantum theif, glass bead game, sapiens
  • zevv 6y ago
    Thanks for the list, will pick up a copy of Permutation City!
• tjalfi 6y ago
  Fiction: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein The Carpet Makers - Andreas Eschbach Nine Hundred Grandmothers - R.A. Lafferty Weaveworld - Clive Barker A Small Death in Lisbon - Robert Wilson Bones of the Earth - Michael Swanwick Enough Rope - Lawrence Block The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree Jr. Planetfall - Emma Newman Biography/Memoirs: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman Crime and Guilt: Stories - Ferdinand von Schirach Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams Travels - Michael Crichton Technical: The Unwritten Laws of Engineering - W.J. King Nonfiction: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours - David Friedman Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall
• C0n57an71n 6y ago
  'The art of electronics', and to watch: 'The seceret life of maschines' series.
• pizza 6y ago
  I am thinking about reading The Lord of Light. Technology advances and people attain techno-Buddhist-Hindu god status.