From: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter)
Subject: A recommended reading list.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 05:19:04 GMT


Someone might be interested in this: this is a list of "must-read" books
I put together several months ago. No descriptions, unfortunately. (Does
anyone else ever post a list like this to rec.arts.books?)

1. *The Fringes of Reason*. a Whole Earth publication

2. Hakim Bey. "T.A.Z."

3. Avital Ronell. "The Telephone Book".
  "Crack Wars".
  Also interview in RE/Search #13.

4. Barbara Marx Hubbard. "The Evolutionary Journey".
  "The Hunger of Eve".

5. Ayn Rand and Objectivism.
  Murray Rothbard.

6. Bob Black. "The Abolition of Work".

7. Celia Green. "The Human Evasion".
  "The Decline and Fall of Science".
  "Advice for Clever Children".

8. Terence McKenna. "Food of the Gods".
  "The Archaic Revival".
  (with Dennis McKenna) "The Invisible Landscape".

9. Ivan Stang, editor: "The Book of the SubGenius".
  "High Weirdness by Mail".
  "Three-Fisted Tales of `Bob'".

10. E.E. Rehmus. "The Magician's Dictionary".

11. ? Ravenscroft. "The Mark of the Beast". see also Rudolf Steiner

12. *Principia Discordia*.

13. Jacques Vallee. "Dimensions".
  "Confrontations".

14. William Irwin Thompson. "At the Edge of History".
  "Passages About Earth".
  "Evil and World Order".
  "Darkness and Scattered Light".
  ? "The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light".
  ? "Pacific Shift".
  "Gaia: A Way of Knowing" (ed.)
  "Imaginary Landscape".
  ? "Gaia 2" (ed.)
  ? "The American Replacement of Nature".

15. Jose Arguelles. "The Transformative Journey".
  "The Mayan Factor".

16. Jeremy Griffith. "Free - The End of the Human Condition".
  OR "Beyond the Human Condition".

17. Stanislaw Lem. "Imaginary Magnitude".
  "A Perfect Vacuum".
  "One Human Minute".
  "Solaris".

18.  Hans Moravec. "Mind Children".
  K Eric Drexler. "Engines of Creation", + new book. Foresight Update.
  Grant Fjermedal. "The Tomorrow Makers".
  Jerry Pournelle. "A Step Farther Out".

19. William Gibson. "Neuromancer", "Burning Chrome".
  Bruce Sterling. "Schismatrix", "Crystal Express", "Islands in the Net".
  Vernor Vinge, "Marooned in Real Time".
  ?, "The Hole in the Zero".

20. Olaf Stapledon. "Star Maker".
  "Last and First Men".

21. Greg Bear. "Blood Music".
  "Eon".
  "Queen of Angels".

22. H P Lovecraft (various).

23. Gene Wolfe, "The Book of the New Sun".

24. ? Stelarc.

25. FM-2030 aka FM Esfandiary. "Optimism One".
  "Upwingers".
  ? "Telespheres".
  "Are You a Transhuman?"

26. Robert Anton Wilson. "Cosmic Trigger", vols 1 & 2.
  "Prometheus Rising".
  "Quantum Psychology".
  "The New Inquisition".
  "Reality is What You Can Get Away With".
  "Masks of the Illuminati", "Illuminatus!" trilogy
  "Schroedinger's Cat" trilogy
  "Coincidance"
  "The Illuminati Papers"

27. Aleister Crowley (various). eg "777", "Book of Lies", "Eight Lectures on
      Yoga"
  ? Kenneth Grant.
  ? G I Gurdjieff.
  U G Krishnamurti.

28. Christopher Hyatt. "Undoing Yourself".
  "Undoing Yourself Too".

29. Timothy Leary. "Neuropolitique".
  "Info-Psychology" (formerly "Exo-Psychology").
  "The Politics of Ecstasy".
  "The Intelligence Agents".
  "The Game of Life".

30. "In Pursuit of VALIS", concerning Philip K Dick.

31. Postmodernism, poststructuralism.
  "An Introduction to Superstructuralism".
  Foucault, Baudrillard, ? Deleuze and Guattari.

32. Roger Penrose. "The Emperor's New Mind".
  Stephen Hawking. "A Brief History of Time".
  Richard Feynman. "QED".
  Douglas Hofstadter. "Goedel Escher Bach".
  F David Peat, "Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything".
    "The Philosopher's Stone".
  James Gleick, "Chaos".
  Barrow and Tipler. "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle".
  James Lovelock, books on "Gaia".

33. ? Stan Deyo. "The Cosmic Conspiracy".
  and "similar" books.

34. James Joyce. "Ulysses", "Finnegans Wake".

35. Gerald Edelman's trilogy on neural Darwinism.
  books by the Churchlands.

36. Nietzsche, ? Schopenhauer.

37. ? Garry Reith, "Neutron Gun".

38. "Gnosis", "MONDO 2000", ? "Now What" (Waves Forest)

39. "State of the World".
  Murray Bookchin, "The Ecology of Freedom".

40. R Buckminster Fuller. "Critical Path"
  "Grunch of Giants"

41. The Travelling Scriptures of the Church of V/R.




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