physicsyogi

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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
Dune (Frank Herbert)
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash were great.
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash were great.
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physicsyogi · Oct 21, 2019
And TAOCP has an incredibly thorough discussion of combinatorics that I found invaluable.
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
The Three Body-Problem (Cixin Liu)
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physicsyogi · Aug 8, 2016
Alan Watts' The Wisdom of Insecurity
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven)
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (superb short story that Arrival was based on)
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physicsyogi · Jul 15, 2018
The Kundalini Equation (Steven Barnes)
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physicsyogi · Aug 8, 2016
Two, by Melissa Ann Pinney
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physicsyogi · Aug 8, 2016
I gave Joseph Brodsky's Watermark
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