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Ask HN: What books should I read this summer?

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Yay, holidays are coming up! The last few years I got some very good reads from similar threads on HN, but couldn't find one for this summer yet. What are the books one should read in CS, popular science and/or sci-fi in 2020?

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Fiction:

  The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein
  The Carpet Makers - Andreas Eschbach
  Nine Hundred Grandmothers - R.A. Lafferty
  Weaveworld - Clive Barker
  A Small Death in Lisbon - Robert Wilson
  Bones of the Earth - Michael Swanwick
  Enough Rope - Lawrence Block
  The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
  Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree Jr.
  Planetfall - Emma Newman

Biography/Memoirs:

  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
  What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman
  Crime and Guilt: Stories - Ferdinand von Schirach
  Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
  Travels - Michael Crichton

Technical:

  The Unwritten Laws of Engineering - W.J. King

Nonfiction:

  Legal Systems Very Different From Ours - David Friedman
  Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall

For sci-fi/dystopian I really liked Sea of Rust, Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, Midworld, Of Men And Monsters, Metro 2033, Wool, The Maiden Voyage of The Destiny Unknown, The Electric State ...

Ah, Childhood's End I was once on my list but I never got to read it, thanks!

I'm going to recommend you the last one I read and loved so much: Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick. What a legend OMG!

Looks good, on the shopping list!

I am thinking about reading The Lord of Light. Technology advances and people attain techno-Buddhist-Hindu god status.

'The art of electronics', and to watch: 'The seceret life of maschines' series.

I've seen a few similar threads on so far. Here are ones that I've added to my list (haven't gotten to read them yet).

Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, permutation city, diaspora, quantum theif, glass bead game, sapiens

Thanks for the list, will pick up a copy of Permutation City!

How innovation works

Steam power, patents and the infinite improbability drive. This one goes on the list!

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