This are books that I consider to be worth owning. That is to read and re-read and to have your children read (when they are teens).
C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity, Screw Tape Letters, Til We Have Faces, Narnia
O.S. Card: Enders Game*, Enders Shadow*, Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Saints
J. Pournelle: Go Tell the Spartans, Prince of Sparta, Legacy of Heorot, The Face of the Enemy, The Mote in Gods Eye, Blood Fueds*, Blood Vengeance*, Strategy of Technology
Larry Niven: Protectors, Chuut Riit, Eater of Grass, Hall of the mountain King
Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice, Emma
J.D. Fitzgerald: Papa Married A Mormon
H. Beam Piper: Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
Robert Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy, Starship Troopers, Podkayne of Mars*
P. Anderson: All Hoka stories
Aspirin: Phules Company, Skeeve
G.R. Dickson:Blood and Iron, Soldier Ask Not*, Tactics of Mistake, Dorsai, Final Encyclopedia, Young Bleys
Tim Powers: Declare
John Scalzi: Old Mans War*
John C. Wright: Orphans of Chaos
Gilbreth: Cheaper By The Dozen,Bells on their Toes
P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves Series,Blandings Series
Tom Wolfe: Man in Full
Waterson: Calvin & Hobbes
Timothy Zahn: Admiral Thrawn Trilogy
G.K. Chesterton: Heretics,Orthodoxy
Jared Diamond: Guns Germs & Steel
Edmund Burke: Reflections … France
Conan Doyle: The White Company
Hal Clement: Mission of Gravity
L.M. Bujold: Miles Vorkosigan
Vernor Vinge: A Fire upon the Deep
Cold Sassy Tree
Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence
David Brin: Startide Rising
Books marked with an asterick are books that I want to edit for one reason or another.
Friday, December 19, 2008
My Library (Books)
Monday, September 8, 2008
Last night I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that I was with a group of people in a garage where we were attempting to build an AI supercomputer. I discovered it had a malevolent personality that plotted the destruction of the human race. After a brief struggle we managed to destroy it.
Later one of our group had a baby. It was a strange baby but she loved and protected that baby. Then I saw that the machine had altered it live on through that baby. I said some timid comment to that effect. The mother began to protest and reached for the baby as if to draw it into her arms in protection. It misinterpreted this action and thought it was being threatened. It opened its mouth and growled. It's head spun around to reveal another horrible face on the back of its head with sharp bared teeth.
Still some maternal instinct remained and instead of destroying it as we should have, the mother told it. Leave us alone and we will leave you alone. Do not seek to follow us or hurt us.
As we left the house we were attacked by a dog that looked like a St.Bernard but had the disposition of a rottweiler. A minion of our enemy. It killed her and attacked me but I pried his mouth open with my hands, feeling the sharp teeth dig into my skin but evading death.
