Sean Carroll
Theoretical physicist and philosopher at Johns Hopkins and the Santa Fe Institute; blogs at Preposterous Universe and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
If you're willing to roll up your sleeves and follow the authors along, this is a book from which you can learn a great deal.
on preposterousuniverse.com · 12 Feb 2013
Love in a Dead Language by Lee Siegel
This one is a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii, who has written the best postmodern-pastiche novel I've come across.
on preposterousuniverse.com · 26 Jul 2006
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
This book is a thoughtful examination of deep issues of identity, freedom, and obsession.
on preposterousuniverse.com · 26 Jul 2006
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
A wonderfully dark novel, structured loosely around a series of recipes. You won't learn any new culinary tricks, but you'll be drawn into the wicked plotting of Tarquin Winot as he spins his schemes with considerable savoir faire . The first book I recommend to people I think highly of.
on preposterousuniverse.com · 26 Jul 2006
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
This was his first, and it's a masterpiece of twisted imagination. There's a surprise ending, but the convoluted path by which you get there has a terrifying internal logic.
on preposterousuniverse.com · 26 Jul 2006
Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
Caudwell has written a mystery novel populated by barristers of supernatural wit and cleverness, resulting in one of the most consistently amusing books I've ever read.
on preposterousuniverse.com · 26 Jul 2006
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