Suggested Reading
by jperras
Some books that I think every self-respecting nerd should read:
- Feynman’s Rainbow, by Leonard Mlodinow.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
- The XKCD: Volume 0 book.
- The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Quite possibly the best science-fiction series that has ever been written.
- The Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. If you enjoy “hard” sci-fi, then you’ll love this series.
Yes, these are heavily science/physics/sci-fi biased, but would you expect anything different from someone like me?
Note: There are no affiliate codes attached to these links. I’m not that much of a cheapskate.
Comments
Foundation is one of my all time favourites, alongside Dune.
I love the Foundation. I grew up in Lebanon and only the had the three books from the original series. During the summer of 1997, I worked in a lab at McGill (your neck of the woods, right?). I scavenged used bookstores in Montreal for the complete Foundation series, like Foundation and Earth, Prelude to Foundation. I moved up and down the Asimov universe timeline and became introduced to the Empire and Robots series. It was an enchanted summer of nerdism.
I would also add Asimov’s the Gods Themselves. Fascinating thought experiment on what life forms might be in other universes with different laws of physics.