Table of Contents
- 1. To publish this:
- 2. To sort a list by author last name
- 3. Movies
- 3.1. TODO Amadeus
- 3.2. TODO Anything with Carmen Miranda
- 3.3. TODO The Asphalt Jungle
- 3.4. TODO Brian and Charles
- 3.5. TODO Caged Heat
- 3.6. TODO Far Away, So Close
- 3.7. TODO Highway 61
- 3.8. TODO Lapwing
- 3.9. TODO The Limey
- 3.10. TODO The Menu
- 3.11. TODO Night On Earth (Criterion)
- 3.12. TODO Nomadland – Chloe Zhaop
- 3.13. TODO Pleasantville
- 3.14. TODO Seconds (Rock Hudson)
- 3.15. TODO The Rider – Chloe Zhao
- 3.16. TODO Truly Madly Deeply
- 3.17. TODO The Warriors
- 4. Economics
- 5. Geography
- 6. History
- 6.1. TODO Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming
- 6.2. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel
- 6.3. TODO Essex Dogs – Dan Jones
- 6.4. TODO Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors – Alison Light
- 6.5. TODO After the ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC – Stephen Mithen
- 6.6. TODO Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet
- 6.7. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend
- 6.8. TODO The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revoltuion – David Wootton
- 7. SciFi
- 7.1. TODO Columbus Day – Craig Alanson
- 7.2. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
- 7.3. TODO The Algebraist – Iain M. Banks
- 7.4. TODO The Shattered Skies – John Birmingham
- 7.5. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson
- 7.6. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton
- 7.7. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh
- 7.8. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow
- 7.9. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow
- 7.10. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger
- 7.11. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan
- 7.12. Reading The Wreck of the River Of Stars – Michael Flynn
- 7.13. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle
- 7.14. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden
- 7.15. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin
- 7.16. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
- 7.17. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne
- 7.18. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
- 7.19. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
- 7.20. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
- 7.21. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod
- 7.22. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville
- 7.23. TODO Warped Space - Jo Miles
- 7.24. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata
- 7.25. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
- 7.26. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor
- 7.27. TODO The Space Merchants – Frederick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth
- 7.28. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- 7.29. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter
- 7.30. TODO Robert Sheckley – anything!
- 7.31. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl
- 7.32. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel
- 7.33. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling
- 7.34. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte
- 7.35. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart
- 7.36. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 7.37. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr
- 7.38. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
- 7.39. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge
- 7.40. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts
- 7.41. Reading The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
- 8. Space
- 8.1. TODO The Mission – David Brown
- 8.2. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt
- 8.3. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie
- 8.4. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband
- 8.5. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson
- 8.6. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones
- 8.7. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly
- 8.8. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence
- 8.9. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele
- 8.10. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald
- 8.11. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III
- 8.12. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin
- 8.13. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi
- 8.14. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle
- 8.15. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse
- 8.16. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow
- 8.17. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis
- 8.18. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner
- 8.19. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon
- 8.20. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo
- 9. Climate
- 10. Science
- 10.1. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe
- 10.2. TODO Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture– Craig Canine
- 10.3. TODO Wasps: The astonishing diversity of a misunderstood insect – Eric R. Eaton
- 10.4. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
- 10.5. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet
- 10.6. TODO The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
- 10.7. TODO The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years – Jennifer Owen
- 10.8. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy
- 10.9. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles
- 10.10. TODO Human Error – James Reason
- 10.11. TODO THIS ONE Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack
- 10.12. TODO THIS ONE A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs
- 10.13. Reading THIS ONE Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts – Tamm, Eric Enno
- 10.14. TODO Plankton – Christian Sardet
- 10.15. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley
- 10.16. TODO Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps – Serian Sumner
- 10.17. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
- 10.18. TODO The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life – Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski
- 11. Other non-fiction
- 11.1. TODO A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al
- 11.2. Reading Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- 11.3. TODO Tubes: A journey to the center of the Internet – Andrew Blum
- 11.4. TODO The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast – Andrew Blum
- 11.5. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows
- 11.6. TODO Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest
- 11.7. TODO Bagels, Bumpf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Simon Horobin
- 11.8. TODO Twenty Minutes in Manhattan – Michael Sorkin
- 11.9. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss
- 11.10. TODO Fluent in 3 months – Benny Lewis
- 12. Fiction
- 13. Done
- 13.1. DONE The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
- 13.2. DONE Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
- 13.3. DONE The Manager's Path – Camille Fournier
- 13.4. DONE Master and Commander
[22/22] - 13.5. DONE Man in the High Castle
- 13.6. DONE Rendezvous with Rama
- 13.7. DONE Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
- 13.8. DONE Luna: New Moon – Ian MacDonald
- 13.9. DONE Ancillary Mercy – Anne Leckie
- 13.10. DONE Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
- 13.11. DONE The Devil You Know – K.J. Parker
- 13.12. DONE Flight: My Life in Mission Control – Chris Kraft
- 13.13. DONE Power Wars – Charlie Savage
- 13.14. DONE Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety – Eric Schlosser
- 13.15. DONE The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
- 13.16. DONE Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 13.17. DONE The Wanderers – Meg Howrey
- 13.18. DONE Mockingbird – Walter Tevis
- 13.19. DONE The Big Picture – Sean Carroll
- 13.20. DONE Venomous – Christie Wilcox
- 13.21. DONE Armor – John Steakley
- 13.22. DONE The Case for Mars – Robert Zubrin
- 13.23. DONE Scatter, Adapt and Remember – Annalee Newitz
- 13.24. DONE The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester
- 13.25. DONE The Civil War – Shelby Foote
- 13.26. DONE The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
- 13.27. DONE Goodby Robinson Crusoe – John Varley
- 13.28. DONE Delta-V – Daniel Suarez
- 13.29. DONE The storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall
- 13.30. DONE Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson
- 13.31. DONE Handprints on Hubble – Kathryn D. Sullivan
- 13.32. DONE Pinpoint (GPS book) – Jeff Milner
- 13.33. DONE In Hoffa's Shadow – Jack Goldsmith
- 13.34. DONE Failure is not an option – Gene Kranz
- 13.35. DONE More from Less – Andrew McAfee – Econtalk guest, dematerialization
- 13.36. DONE The Three-body Problem – Cixin Liu
- 13.37. DONE The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams
- 13.38. DONE How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages – Dr Cait Stevenson (@sunagainstgold)
1. To publish this:
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2. To sort a list by author last name
awk '{print $NF, $0}' | sort | cut -f2- -d' '
3. Movies
3.1. TODO Amadeus
3.2. TODO Anything with Carmen Miranda
3.3. TODO The Asphalt Jungle
3.4. TODO Brian and Charles
"Brian Gittins is a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who builds quirky contraptions that seldom work. One day while scavenging scrap, he comes across a mannequin’s head, which inspires him to attempt to create an artificially-intelligent robot, though he is unable to activate it. That night, during a thunderstorm, Brian discovers his activated robot wandering outside of his workshop, and Brian brings it into his house."
3.5. TODO Caged Heat
3.6. TODO Far Away, So Close
3.7. TODO Highway 61
3.8. TODO Lapwing
3.9. TODO The Limey
3.10. TODO The Menu
3.11. TODO Night On Earth (Criterion)
3.12. TODO Nomadland – Chloe Zhaop
3.13. TODO Pleasantville
3.14. TODO Seconds (Rock Hudson)
3.15. TODO The Rider – Chloe Zhao
3.16. TODO Truly Madly Deeply
3.17. TODO The Warriors
4. Economics
4.1. TODO Debt: The first 5000 years – David Graeber
4.2. TODO Technological revolutions and financial capital- Carlota Perez
5. Geography
5.1. TODO Owning the earth – Andrew Linklater
5.2. TODO Measuring America – Andrew Linklater
6. History
6.1. TODO Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming
6.2. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel
6.3. TODO Essex Dogs – Dan Jones
- Historical fiction about the 100 years war; podcast guest on Gone Medieval; sounds fascinating
6.4. TODO Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors – Alison Light
6.5. TODO After the ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC – Stephen Mithen
6.6. TODO Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet
- About the effect of WWII movies on our remembering of WWII itself; Chatter/Lawfare interview; sounds fascinating
6.7. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend
6.8. TODO The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revoltuion – David Wootton
7. SciFi
7.1. TODO Columbus Day – Craig Alanson
7.2. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
7.3. TODO The Algebraist – Iain M. Banks
7.4. TODO The Shattered Skies – John Birmingham
7.5. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson
7.6. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton
7.7. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh
7.8. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow
7.9. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow
7.10. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger
7.11. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan
7.12. Reading The Wreck of the River Of Stars – Michael Flynn
7.13. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle
7.14. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden
7.15. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin
7.16. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
7.17. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne
- Thunderscreech recommends, says good writing
7.18. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
7.19. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
7.20. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
7.21. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod
7.22. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville
7.23. TODO Warped Space - Jo Miles
- The author I found from Nature w/very fun short stories
7.24. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata
7.25. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
7.26. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor
7.27. TODO The Space Merchants – Frederick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth
7.28. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
7.29. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter
7.30. TODO Robert Sheckley – anything!
7.31. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl
7.32. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel
7.33. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling
7.34. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte
7.35. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart
7.36. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
7.37. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr
7.38. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
7.39. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge
7.40. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts
7.41. Reading The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
8. Space
8.1. TODO The Mission – David Brown
8.2. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt
8.3. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie
8.4. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband
8.5. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson
8.6. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones
8.7. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly
8.8. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence
8.9. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele
8.10. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald
8.11. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III
8.12. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin
8.13. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi
8.14. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle
8.15. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse
8.16. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow
8.17. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis
8.18. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner
8.19. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon
8.20. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo
9. Climate
9.1. TODO Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home – Mark L. Hineline
- at VPL
10. Science
10.1. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe
10.2. TODO Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture– Craig Canine
10.3. TODO Wasps: The astonishing diversity of a misunderstood insect – Eric R. Eaton
10.4. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
10.5. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet
- Prof of fisheries at UBC
10.6. TODO The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
10.7. TODO The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years – Jennifer Owen
- Interlibrary loan submitted
10.8. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy
10.9. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles
10.10. TODO Human Error – James Reason
10.11. TODO THIS ONE Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack
10.12. TODO THIS ONE A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs
10.13. Reading THIS ONE Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts – Tamm, Eric Enno
- BPL, 578.77092 Ric
10.14. TODO Plankton – Christian Sardet
10.15. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley
- anything by him
10.16. TODO Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps – Serian Sumner
10.17. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
10.18. TODO The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life – Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski
11. Other non-fiction
11.1. TODO A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al
- The original design patterns; architecture
11.2. Reading Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
11.3. TODO Tubes: A journey to the center of the Internet – Andrew Blum
11.4. TODO The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast – Andrew Blum
11.5. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows
11.6. TODO Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest
11.7. TODO Bagels, Bumpf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Simon Horobin
11.8. TODO Twenty Minutes in Manhattan – Michael Sorkin
11.9. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss
11.10. TODO Fluent in 3 months – Benny Lewis
- Don't spend a lot on this…library or cheap used
12. Fiction
12.1. TODO The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
12.2. TODO The Physician – Noah Gordonp
12.3. TODO The City of Tears – Kate Mosse
12.4. TODO Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
12.5. TODO Death of a Red Heroine – Qiu Xiaolong
13. Done
13.1. DONE The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
13.2. DONE Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
13.3. DONE The Manager's Path – Camille Fournier
13.4. DONE Master and Commander [22/22]
13.5. DONE Man in the High Castle
13.6. DONE Rendezvous with Rama
13.7. DONE Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
13.8. DONE Luna: New Moon – Ian MacDonald
13.9. DONE Ancillary Mercy – Anne Leckie
13.10. DONE Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
13.11. DONE The Devil You Know – K.J. Parker
13.12. DONE Flight: My Life in Mission Control – Chris Kraft
13.13. DONE Power Wars – Charlie Savage
13.14. DONE Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety – Eric Schlosser
13.15. DONE The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
13.16. DONE Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
13.17. DONE The Wanderers – Meg Howrey
13.18. DONE Mockingbird – Walter Tevis
13.19. DONE The Big Picture – Sean Carroll
13.20. DONE Venomous – Christie Wilcox
13.21. DONE Armor – John Steakley
13.22. DONE The Case for Mars – Robert Zubrin
13.23. DONE Scatter, Adapt and Remember – Annalee Newitz
13.24. DONE The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester
13.25. DONE The Civil War – Shelby Foote
13.26. DONE The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
13.27. DONE Goodby Robinson Crusoe – John Varley
13.28. DONE Delta-V – Daniel Suarez
13.29. DONE The storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall
13.30. DONE Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson
13.31. DONE Handprints on Hubble – Kathryn D. Sullivan
13.32. DONE Pinpoint (GPS book) – Jeff Milner
13.33. DONE In Hoffa's Shadow – Jack Goldsmith
13.34. DONE Failure is not an option – Gene Kranz
13.35. DONE More from Less – Andrew McAfee – Econtalk guest, dematerialization
13.36. DONE The Three-body Problem – Cixin Liu
13.37. DONE The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams
- BPL, 508 Wil