📚 Recommended Books

Trying to limit myself to keeping the same number of fiction and non-fiction items. It’s hard.

Fiction

Canticle for Leibowitz

• Post apoc. set in a monastery.
• Part one starts in a “new dark age” then jumps 600 years forward, then jumps another 600 years.

Eifelheim

• Alt. history set in the 1300s or something like that.
• Alien encounter.
• Discusses if Christian concept of salvation is for ET too.

Lager Queen of Minnesota

• Two concurrent storylines a generation apart.
• About a breakout brewer and her estranged craft beer niece.

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

• Near-future moon colonisation.
• 🌙 Wrote more about it here

Princess Bride

• If you think the film is decent-or-better, the book is fantastic.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

• Comedy sci-fi.
• Whole series is great.

Not recommendations from me but 📖 here’s a list of post-apocalyptic but pre-dystopian pieces, mostly books.

Non-fiction

The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

• A collection of essays written before his suicide.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

• Way more exciting than it sounds.
• Key point, I guess, is how fiat currency isn’t for holding wealth, but for tracking debt.

Colophon

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• 🌙 The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress