I suppose I’ve been reading too many books at once this summer. Fortunately enough, the books are so different that none conflict with the others and I’m safe with my concurrent readings.
Finished
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk [rereading]
- Myst: The Book of Ti’ana by Rand Miller & David Wingrove [rereading]
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Currently
- Myst: The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller & David Wingrove [rereading]
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- Metamagical Themas by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Muse in the Machine by David Gelernter
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig
- Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software by Steven Johnson
Plan to start
- Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-László Barabási
After finishing the final (?) expansion pack for Uru I felt like I needed to reread the Myst novels. Being able to actually visit D’ni in Uru has changed a few of my concepts of the cavern, and several of the plot elements from Uru have changed my perspective of the D’ni people.
Most of the books above are concerned with complexity theory and emergence—topics that I hope to further explore as I work on Violet.
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