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Recommended Reading, Spring 2016
Full list here: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/cou...
Fiction and nonfiction list.
Full list here: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/cou...
Fiction and nonfiction list.
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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 116,546 ratings
score: 192,
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 360,939 ratings
score: 185,
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The Shockwave Rider
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3.91 avg rating — 4,299 ratings
score: 177,
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 17,019 ratings
score: 100,
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
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Bisentient
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Patrick O'Connor (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Summa technologiae
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4.31 avg rating — 909 ratings
score: 99,
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Reamde
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 57,126 ratings
score: 98,
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Holy Fire
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3.72 avg rating — 2,683 ratings
score: 97,
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The Caryatids
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3.32 avg rating — 870 ratings
score: 96,
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Distraction
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3.71 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
score: 95,
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 296,491 ratings
score: 94,
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,959 ratings
score: 92,
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future
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3.84 avg rating — 679 ratings
score: 91,
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
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4.07 avg rating — 5,049 ratings
score: 90,
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Super Sad True Love Story
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Gary Shteyngart (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 41,699 ratings
score: 89,
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Eastern Standard Tribe
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 3,843 ratings
score: 88,
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 215,557 ratings
score: 87,
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Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 26,666 ratings
score: 86,
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Accelerando
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 22,195 ratings
score: 84,
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Rainbows End
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3.77 avg rating — 18,890 ratings
score: 83,
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Existence
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 7,118 ratings
score: 82,
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The Dueling Machine (Star Watch / Watchmen, #3)
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3.59 avg rating — 524 ratings
score: 81,
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A Logic Named Joe
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3.68 avg rating — 584 ratings
score: 80,
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
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Francis Spufford (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 4,483 ratings
score: 78,
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The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
score: 77,
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Augmenting Human Intellect
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4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 76,
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Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
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3.75 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Being Digital
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3.80 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
score: 74,
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20,787 ratings
score: 73,
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Shaping Things
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3.91 avg rating — 556 ratings
score: 72,
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Tools for Conviviality
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3.99 avg rating — 953 ratings
score: 71,
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
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4.16 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
score: 70,
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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3.91 avg rating — 12,104 ratings
score: 69,
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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
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3.74 avg rating — 370 ratings
score: 68,
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