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[Matt]

Hey, Ive read all the books I have and looking for more!, I hope you can recommend some.

At the moment I have these books

Quantum Reality - Beyond the new physics
The New Quantum Universe
The final Theory - Rethinking our scientific legacy

Fantastic Voyage : live long enough to live forever
The Spike: How our lives are being transformed by rapidly advancing Technologies
NANO by Robert marlow
Living with the genie : essays on tehcnology and the quest for human mastery
Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on global abudance
Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence will transform our world
The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray kurzweil
The First Immortal


What other books would you recommend me reading?

[Infernity]

Matt,

A brief History of Time - Sthephen Hawking

Also- http://www.douglasad...tions/hhgg.html
Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy serial is warmly recommended!

Have fun!

Yours truthfully
~Infernity

[antilithium]

You should read Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker". Check it out at your nearest library because the book was published in 1931.

It's amazing that Olaf could visualize space before Sputnik. He even described what star light would look like by Doppler Effect:

"...I noticed that the sun and all the stars in his neighbourhood were ruddy. Those at the opposite pole of the heaven were of an icy blue. The explanation of this strange phenomenon flashed upon me. I was still travelling, and travelling so fast that light itself was not wholly indifferent to my passage..."

Pretty cool.
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Edited by antilithium, 06 April 2005 - 10:59 PM.

[Mark Hamalainen]

For Non-fiction:
Erwin Schrodinger - What is Life
Aubrey de Grey - SENS, NYAS Annals Vol 1019

Fiction:
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume