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Currently Reading (`#📥/📚/reading`)

Name	Author	Genre	Rating
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	-	-
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade	Cameron Pierce (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale, Aimee Bender , Carlton Mellick III , Bentley Little, Alis...	-	-
The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber	-	-
The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft	HP Lovecraft	-	-
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick	Philip K Dick	-	-
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	-	-
Cobalt Red	Siddharth Kara	-	-
Burning Chrome	William Gibson	-	-

Books Completed (`#📥/📚/completed`)

Title	Author	Rating
Ubik	Philip K. Dick	4.8
Neverday	Carlton Mellick III	3.9
Quicksand House	Carlton Mellick III	4
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	3.85
Blindsight	Peter Watts	4.8

All Books

Title	Author	Rating
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	-
Ubik	Philip K. Dick	4.8
Neverday	Carlton Mellick III	3.9
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	-
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade	Cameron Pierce (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale, Aimee Bender , Carlton Mellick III , Bentley Little, Alis...	-
The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber	-
The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft	HP Lovecraft	-
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick	Philip K Dick	-
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	-
Cobalt Red	Siddharth Kara	-
Quicksand House	Carlton Mellick III	4
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	3.85
Blindsight	Peter Watts	4.8
Burning Chrome	William Gibson	-

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!!

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
- ✅ ⭐️ 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)
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