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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (The Discworld series)

The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the …

The Pursuit of the Pankera by J. R. R. Tolkien(duplicate)

Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda …

Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary by Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

A collection of comic strips following the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes.

A princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Mars novels / Edgar Rice Burroughs -- #1)

I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but …

xkcd: volume 0 by Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe describes xkcd as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. While it's practically required reading in the …

Wired by Douglas E. Richards

"Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought …

Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta (The pragmatic programmers)

The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke

In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, …

Overclocked by Cory Doctorow

Masters of Doom by David Kushner

"To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular …

The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

A compendium of practical matters of importance to working programmers.