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It seems like every decade or so a science fiction novel comes along that sends a lightning bolt through my nervous system: Philip Jose Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971). William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984). Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992). Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003). And I recently discovered what my mind-blowing novel for the 2010s is: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. http://boingboing.net/2011/08/15/ready-player-one-the-best-science-fiction-book-ive-read-in-a-decade.html

Rethinking Hemingway 50 years after his death Ernest Hemingway's two competing personas — the hard-living macho man and the bohemian writer whose style influenced many other authors — have something to teach today's men, as evidenced in some new books and an HBO film. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hemingway-20110702,0,3840324.story

Favorite Rereads: Books You Read Over And Over Again. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/19/favorite-rereads_n_825362.html#s242713&title=The_Harry_Potter

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24325132/Suzuki-Beane

The Mystery of the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson, the World's Bestselling — and Most Enigmatic — Author Six years after his death, the facts of his life have morphed into myth: Was he murdered? Was he a spy? Was there really a girl with a dragon tattoo? http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-mystery-of-the-dragon-tattoo-stieg-larsson-the-worlds-bestselling-and-most-enigmatic-author-20110105

ian tregillis bitter seed. http://www.iantregillis.com/index.cfm?blog=164

How a brutal rape and a lifelong burden of guilt fuelled Girl with the Dragon Tattoo writer Stieg Larsson. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1299216/Stieg-Larsson-wrote-novel-The-Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-fuelled-brutal-rape.html

'To Kill A Mockingbird' Anniversary: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/to-kill-a-mockingbird-ann_b_641473.html

slang http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23Larsson-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world

The Fletch Novels http://www.gregorymcdonald.com/mysteries.html

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/alice/accessible/introduction.html

Read Houdini's books via Google Books and Library of Congress. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/29/read-houdinis-books.html

Summer reading: Killer thrillers. Salon recommends four addictive novels to add intrigue and treachery to your beach book list. http://www.salon.com/books/summer_reading/2009/06/02/thrillers/index.html

sci-fi

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress

F me Ray Bradbury http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/6825/fuck-me-ray-bradbury

In their Tales from the KRYPT newsletter, one member of the KRYPTOS Society (“established in 1981 to promote interest in cryptoanalysis”) offers a summary of the group’s annual awards luncheon, held at Ft. Meade’s “Club Meade,” where prizes were doled out to winners of the annual KRYPTOS Literature Contest (top prize went to: “Fast Identification of Particular Features in a Specific Application Generated by a Particular Algorithm”). And then there’s the Crypto-Mathematics Institute (CMI), which seems kinda like the more exclusive version of KRYPTOS. The club’s manifesto includes six pages on entry-application requirements and the complex process of electing the club’s president, president-elect and executive director. They’ve also got a serious thing for word puzzles, with a fun nine-page test (some of which, they confess, was cribbed from the “Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz”) that includes such brain-busters as “Although it might ‘pain’ you to hear it, HEADACHE cannot follow. What word could follow and why?” Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/nsa-gets-geeky-after-dark-new-docs-show/#ixzz0rXgES0TL

Voyage to the heart of matter. http://www.atlas.ch/popupbook/photos.html

Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published. Exegesis, Dick's 'personal laboratory for philosophical inquiry' to be issued in two volumes in 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/30/philip-k-dick-visionary-journals-published

Philip K. Dick, an uneasy spy inside 1970s suburbia. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/philip-k-dick-an-uneasy-spy-inside-1970s-suburbia.html

Philip K. Dick in the land of the John Birch Society. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/philip-k-dick-in-the-land-of-thejohn-birch-society.html

Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox. The Berkeley boho spent his final years in Orange County, which suited him fine, his daughter says. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-philip-k-dick24-2010jan24,0,3831068.story?page=1

The Man In The High Castle, By Philip K. Dick http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_mancastle.html

Authors

Ambrose Bierce, the anti-Santa. In his 'Devil's Dictionary,' Ambrose Bierce stripped all pretense from Americans' holiday of consumption: Christmas. But the nation's greatest cynic was hardly a Scrooge. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-koenig-ambrose-bierce-and-christmas-20111220,0,7061408.story

The Real James Bond: Ian Fleming’s Commandos Reviewed. A new book relates the remarkable story of Ian Fleming’s daring commando group during World War Two and how they inspired the story of the greatest spy ever: James Bond. Michael Korda finds his own family story in its midst. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/19/the-real-james-bond-ian-fleming-s-commandos-reviewed.html

Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine… http://hstbooks.org/2008/09/17/a-day-in-the-life-of-hunter-s-thompson/

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: John Le Carre and reality. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14846154

Hunter S. Thompson's Amazing Letter In Response To A Fan's Submission http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/hunter-s-thompson-letter_n_928491.html

e-books

THE YOUNG MAN`S BOOK OF AMUSEMENT http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/ymboa/subjects.html

NASA Releases First Free E-Book, on History of X-15 Rocket Plane. Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/nasa-e-books/#ixzz0eCjo1pS1 http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/ebooks/index.htm http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/current_docs.htm

American X-Vehicles: An Inventory, X-1 to X-45 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntt=jenkins|jenkins+dennis&Ntk=AuthorList|AuthorList&Ntx=mode+matchall|mode+matchall&N=0&Ns=HarvestDate|1

kids

Girls gone Wilder. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/04/girls_gone_wilder/

http://thepowerfactory.com/stories.php

Daniel Pinkwater has put most of the text of his news kids' book The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There online. http://www.theyggyssey.com/book/index.html http://www.theyggyssey.com/book/iggy1.mp3