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Currently Reading (`#📥/📚/reading`)

Cover12	Title	Author
	The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade	Cameron Pierce (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale, Aimee Bender , Carlton Mellick III , Bentley Little, Alis...
	There Is No Antimemetics Division	qntm
	The Conquest of Bread	Peter Kropotkin
	The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber
	The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft	HP Lovecraft
	The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	Harlan Ellison
	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
	Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick	Philip K Dick
	J R	William Gaddis
	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
	Cobalt Red	Siddharth Kara
	Burning Chrome	William Gibson

Completed (`#📥/📚/completed`)

Title	Author	Rating
2666	Roberto Bolaño	4.75
Against the Day	Thomas Pynchon	4.75
Foucaults Pendulum	Umberto Eco	3.75
Gravity’s Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon	5
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	5
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	3.85
Blindsight	Peter Watts	4.75
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep	Philip K Dick	4
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	4.3
Neverday	Carlton Mellick III	3.9
Quicksand House	Carlton Mellick III	4
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	4
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon	4.25
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Philip K. Dick	4.2
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	4.5
Ubik	Philip K Dick	4.75

Want to Read

The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian or something like that
Natural General Intelligence: How understanding the brain can help us build AI by Christopher Summerfield
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South: Macy, Beth: 9780316337540: Amazon.com: Books
Antimemetics Division Hub - CHECK THIS OUT!!
White Malice by Susan Williams
reccs for people that think Gravity’s Rainbow is the best book ever - Reddit GR Reccs

Logged `#to/read`

To Read

[b] #to/read The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
[b] #🔗 #to/read world building discussion Reddit post
[b] #🔗 #on/ai #to/read look into Googles AI website https://ai.google/ ⏳ 2023-02-08
[b] #🔗 #to/read #on/ai AI book list thread AI Books Thread ⏳ 2023-04-03
[b] #🔗 #to/read Book List with some gold⏳ 2023-04-05
[b] #🔗 #on/books #to/read Book suggestions https://twitter.com/reggiegrarbs/status/1666612545841692674?s=61&t=gyRX2W0x81b80X8f34EMoQ ⏳ 2023-06-07
[b] #to/read They Knew by Sarah Kendzior
[b] #🔗 #on/leftism #to/read One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 2nd Edition: Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner: 8601404923456: Amazon.com: Books ⏳ 2024-04-01
[b] #🔗 #on/leftism #to/read Blood in my Eye by George Jackson ⏳ 2024-04-01
[b] #🔗 #on/writing #to/read Writing books, on storytelling ⏳ 2024-06-11

To Read

Horror
- The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro - makes vampires the stuff of nightmares
- Metro 2033 - series of people creeping each other out with stories - some say it’s not written well, but some disagree
- The Exorcist - obligatory
- The Damnation Game - Clive Barker - great writing style/prose elevates the subject matter
- The Ring
- Colour out of Space by Lovecraft - 20 pages
- The Shining and It - Stephen King better than the movie
- Uzumaki - spirals down
- ✅ ⭐️ Something Wicked this Way Comes - Ray Bradbury - writing style/prose elevates
- Pet Cemetary
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Changeling
- Nos4A2 - Joe Hill
- Mexican Gothic
Cosmic Horror/Sci-Fi
- ✅ I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - short story
- Songs of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti - Short stories
- Shadows of Carcosa - Stories by Lovecraft, Poe, Etc.
- At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
- The Gunslinger - Stephen King - in pursuit of man in black
- Book of the New Sun - challenging read - distant future, return to feudal, sun is dim, protagonist is executioner and torturer
- The Passage - Justin Cronin - freaking scary, part of a series
- Anything by Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space - space operas, plays with mysteries of the universe, deep time
- The Mist - Stephen King
- ✅ 1984
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- ✅ ⭐️ Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- ✅ ⭐️ The Fisherman
- ✅ ⭐️ The Ballad of Black Tom
- The Cipher
- ⭐️ Blindsight
- ✅ ⭐️ The Croning - Laird Barron
- Dreams from the witch house
- Agents of Dreamland
- Ring Shout
Sci fi series
- Foundation
- Three Body Problem series, The Dark Forest, deaths end - Cixin Liu - Fermi paradox, they are hiding - some peope don’t like these books
- Valis series
Sci fi
- Soft sci fi - literary
- Dhalgren
- The glamour - Christopher priest
- ✅ ⭐️ Neuromancer - Gibson
- ✅ ⭐️ Star of the Unborn - franz werfel
- ✅ The left hand of darkness - le guin
- ✅ ⭐️ Hothouse
- ✅ ⭐️ The palace of eternity - space opera by Bob Shaw
- ✅ ⭐️ Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg
- ✅ ⭐️ Roadside Picnic (Stalker is loosely based on this book)
- ✅ The lathe of heaven - Ursula K Le Guin
- Scanner Darkly
- Behold the Man - novella
- Annihilation
- Brave New World
- Children of Time
- Ice
- Dying Earth
- ✅ ⭐️ Solaris
- A case of conscience
- Beyond Apollo
- We who are about to…
- ⭐️ A Fire Upon the Deep
- Blood Music
- The Sluts - Dennis Cooper
- Overlay - Barry Malzberg
- ✅ Burning Chrome - short stories by Gibson
- Snowcrash - Stephenson (cyberpunk)
- Vurt - Jeff Noon (surreal cyberpunk)
- Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
Russian revolution
- Trotsky - history of Russian revolution
- ten days that shook the world - John reed
- October - China Mieville
Authors
- Robert Silverberg
  - Tower of Glass
  - Nightwings
  - Man in the Maze
  - dying inside
  - book of skulls
  - Phases of the moon - short stories (see ⭐️ passengers)
- Barry Malzberg
  - The Gamesman
  - ✅ ⭐️ Overlay
- Stephenson
- Gibson
- PKD
- Alastair Reynolds - https://booksreadingorder.com/alastair-reynolds/ - book order