Reading for the sake of it
Ok, I'm an information junkie. I'll admit that first up.
Notable books I've read
- The C++ Programming Language by Bjarn Stroustrop
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Transmetropolitan
- The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five books) by Douglas Adams
Things I've read recently
-
Dreaming Down Under (Book One), a speculative fiction
compilation edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb
-
Software Specification and Design (A disciplined approach for
real-time systems) by Ken Shumate and Marilyn Keller
- Frequent Flyer by Kinky Friedman
- AUUGN
- Heads by Greg Bear
- The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
- e by Matt Beaumont
-
The Mythical Man-Month (20th anniversary ed.)
by Fred P. Brooks, jr.
- Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
-
Assorted old issues of Dr. Dobb's Journal
and C/C++ User's Journal
- Code Complete by Steve McConnell
- old issues of Software (The journal of Software Engineering Australia)
- The Death of Grass by John Christopher
- The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkein
-
Programming considered as a human acivity
(an article by E. W. Dijkstra)
in The IEEE Great CS Papers book
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
-
Professional Web Site Design from Start to Finish
by Anne-Marie Concepción
- Shaum's Outlines: Software Engineering
- Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- Time Management from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- a spec-fic anthology
-
The August issue of
Linux Magazine
-
Consider Phlebas by Iain (M.) Banks
- Breakthrough by R. J. Pineiro
-
Glass Reptile Breakout, a speculative fiction compilation
edited by Van Ikin
- Metal Fatigue by Sean Williams
Things I'm reading at the moment
-
Unix Network Programming and
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment,
both by W. Richard Stevens
- e-mail (of course)
- The Jargon File, v4.0 (I'm up to :pessimal:)
- The Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams
- Souvenir books from several WA SF conventions
- The Academic Proceedings of Swancon 2001 (Cathy Cupitt, ed.)
-
The Lady Of Situations by Stephen Dedman
Published by a Perth group (well, one guy and a few friends)
called
Ticonderoga Publications
- Mirrorshades (The Cyberpunk Anthology), edited by Bruce Sterling
-
The Giant Book of Science Fiction Stories,
edited by Isaac Asimov
-
Classic Data Structures in C++ by Timothy A. Budd
- old issues of AUUGN (The newsletter of AUUG )
- The SAGE-AU 2005 conference proceedings
-
Fantastic Fiction, a speculative fiction compilation
edited by Cat Sparks
- current issues of Australian Geographic
Stuff I want to read soon
- The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton
-
Something by Larry Niven (anything by someone who has had a
Magic card named after them has got to be good).
- True Names by Vernor Vinge
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Teranesia by Greg Egan
- Threshold by Sara Douglass
-
Something by Michael Swanwick (apparently a really good SF
short-story writer)
- Something by SF author Jack O'Connell
- Something by Julian May
- Distance Haze by Jamil Nasir
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick
- Something by Jeff Noon
- The 'Dead Girls' trilogy by Richard Calder
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlen
- The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Cool books I want to read again some day
For me, this counts as high praise for a book, as usually I don't
read anything more than once. There's just so much good stuff out
there that I don't have the time.
- The Stainless Steel Rat (series) by Harry Harrison
-
and, yet again, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(5-book trilogy [sic]) by Douglas Adams
-
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R.
Tolkein
Books bought, yet unread
- Antique Futures by Terry Dowling
- The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond
- JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns and Practice by Freeman, et al
-
Developing Windows NT Device Drivers (I got it cheap, OK?) by
Dekker, et al
- ...and many more
Interesting sites
- Yahoo's SciFi and Fantasy category
- SF Zines webring
- The Ouroboros Bookworms
- The HUGO awards
- Skotos.net
- multiplayer interactive fiction
- Chuck McKenzie's hompage
- Fables and Reflections
- A Perth Fanzine
- redsine
- A fanzine exploring the darker aspects of various genres
- The Vision writers group
Alastair Irvine
Last modified: Sat Apr 22 18:41:02 WST 2006