The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
By: Brian Dear
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable untold story of PLATO, the computer program and platform created in the 1960s, that …
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1. For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
By: Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor
4.37
Format: 311 pages, Audible Audio
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was… read more
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"What does kaheerakah mean?"-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
"I always wanted to be a bad influence."-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
2. Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
By: Rod Canion
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of Compaq is Three ex-Texas Instruments managers founded Compaq with modest venture fund… read more
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- computers
- nonfiction
- history
- technology
3. Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
By: Daniel Suarez
4.26
Format: 486 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Tec… read more
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- technology
"Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it."-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
"Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget."-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
"You taught me everything I need to know; self-reliance, self-respect, community. Just don't be surprised if I actually put it to use."-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
"That people will do whatever a computer screen tells them. I swear to god, you could run the next Holocaust from a fucking fast-food register. He pantomimed aiming a pistol. It says I should kill you…"-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
4. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
By: G. Pascal Zachary
3.74
Format: 410 pages,
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- computers
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- nonfiction
- computer science
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
By: Steven Levy
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would… read more
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- computers
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7. Sandstorm (Sigma Force, #1)
By: James Rollins
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms i… read more
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8. The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
By: Brian Dear
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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- computers
- internet
- history
- technology
- nonfiction
- computer science
- science
9. Daemon (Daemon #1)
By: Daniel Suarez
3.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer … read more
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10. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Lick… read more
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11. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
By: Clifford Stoll
4.15
Format: 200 pages,
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12. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
By: Grady Hendrix
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more
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13. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
By: Wil Wheaton , David Kushner
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
Masters of Doomis the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack a… read more
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14. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
By: Blake J. Harris
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of The Accidental Billionairesand Moneyballcomes Console Wars--a mesmerizing,… read more
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15. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer
By: Paul Freiberger , Michael Swaine
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In the early 1970s the personal computer was just a wild dream shared by a small group of computer … read more
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16. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
By: None , Ben R. Rich
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more
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17. Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing
By: Randall E. Stross , None
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1993, this is the story of Steve Jobs's ambitious attempts after he left Ap… read more
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18. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
By: Amy Wallace , Ed Catmull
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"What does it mean to manage well?" From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter)… read more
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19. Flood (Flood, #1)
By: Stephen Baxter
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
It begins in 2016. Another wet summer, another year of storm surges and high tides. But this time t… read more
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20. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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21. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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- computer science
- technology
- nonfiction
- science
"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
22. Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2)
By: Christopher Ruocchio
4.39
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fa… read more
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23. Demon in White (Sun Eater, #3)
By: Christopher Ruocchio
4.63
Format: 784 pages, Paperback
The third novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more
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"Great is Truth, and mighty above all things."-Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White (Sun Eater, #3)
24. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- history
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25. The Light Brigade
By: Kameron Hurley
3.89
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more
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"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
26. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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- history
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"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
27. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- computer science
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
28. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told t… read more
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"It's not clear whether, at this point, the Babiarzes fully understood that the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded."-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing the other capitalists] with no one around him, crying because no one's aroun…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing everyone else] with no one around him, crying because no one's around to mak…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"Government isn't ruining capitalism. Capitalism is ruining government. I think that's kind of obvious. If you take capitalism out of government you get simple public representation. If you take gover…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
29. The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives
By: William Stixrud
4.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"It is not an overstatement to say that this is one of the most radical and important books on rais… read more
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- science
"Society thrives on the diverse talents of its people."-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives
"The reality is that we become successful in this world by working hard at something that comes easily to us, and that engages us."-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives
30. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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31. Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games
By: Cliff Bleszinski
3.90
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game in… read more
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