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In all cases, clicking on the title of the book takes you to the review. To see the most recent reviews, return to the Main books page, reviews section.
| Author | Title | Genre | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Adams | The Dilbert Future | Humor | Recommended |
| Scott Adams | Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook | Humor | Recommended |
| Scott Adams | The Joy of Work | Humor | Recommended |
| Kevin Anderson | Darksaber | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| K. Arnold & J. Gosling | The Java Programming Language | Computing | Recommended |
| Iain M. Banks | Excession | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Stephen Baxter | RING | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Greg Bear | Foundation and Chaos | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Greg Bear | Legacy | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Gregory Benford | COSM | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Gregory Benford | Foundation's Fear | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Donald Benson | The Moment of Proof - Mathematical Epiphanies | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| David Berlinski | The Advent of the Algorithm | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Peter L. Bernstein | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Alfred Bester & Roger Zelazny | Psycho Shop | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| T. Bossomaier, D. Green | Patterns in the Sand | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| David Brin | Brightness Reef | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| David Brin | Foundation's Triumph | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| David Brin | Heaven's Reach | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| David Brin | Infinity's Shore | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| David Brin | The Transparent Society | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Clint Brookhart | Go Figure - Using Math to Answer Everyday Imponderables | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Orson Scott Card | Children of the Mind | Science Fiction | Lightly recommended |
| Jeffrey Carver | The Infinite Sea | Science Fiction | Somewhat Recommended |
| B.A. Chepaitis | The Fear Principle | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 3001: The Final Odyssey | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Paul Clayton | Calling Crow Nation | Fiction | Highly recommended |
| H. Cogger & R. Zwiefel | Reptiles and Amphibians | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Geoffrey Cooper | The Cell | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Todd Courtois | Java Networking and Communications | Computing | Not recommended |
| Michael Dertouzos | What Will Be | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Emily Devenport | Eggheads | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Keith Devlin | The Language of Mathmatics | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| W. Diffie & S. Landau | Privacy on the Line | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| William Dunham | The Mathematical Universe | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Carol Feltman | TEMPtation - An Introduction to Busyness Management | Humor | Recommended |
| Timothy Ferris | The Whole Shebang | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| Robert L. Forward | Saturn Ruhk | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| William Gibson | IDORU | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Robert Gilmore | Alice In Quantumland | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Simon Goodwin | Hubble's Universe: A Portrait of Our Cosmos | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Questioning the Millennium | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| Brian Greene | The Elegant Universe | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Jan Gullberg | Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| William Gutsch | 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the Universe | Non-fiction | Lightly recommended |
| Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Barbara Hambly | Planet of Twilight | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| S. Hawking & R. Penrose | The Nature of Space and Time | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Howard V. Hendrix | Standing Wave | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | Dune: House Atreides | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Daniel Hillis | The Pattern on the Stone | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| John Horner w/ E. Dodd | Dinosaur Lives | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Eric Idle | The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel | Humor | Highly Recommended |
| B.W. Kernighan & R. Pike | The Practice of Programming | Computing | Highly Recommended |
| Noretta Koertge | A House Built on Sand | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Lawrence Krauss | Beyond Star Trek | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Lemay, Duff, & Mohler | Graphics and Web Page Design | Computing | Recommended |
| Paul J. McAuley | Ancients of Days | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Laurie McCanna | Creating Great Web Graphics | Computing | Recommended |
| Wil McCarthy | BLOOM | Science Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Walter M. Miller Jr | Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Haruki Murakami | Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Science Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Paul J. Nahin | An Imaginary Tale - The Story of i | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Larry Niven | Destiny's Road | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Larry Niven | Rainbow Mars | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Larry Niven | The Ringworld Throne | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Steve Perry | Shadows of the Empire | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Ivars Peterson | The Jungles of Randomness | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht | The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Jeff Prosise | Programming Windows95 with MFC | Computing | Recommended |
| Sir Martin Rees | Before the Beginning | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Carl Sagan | Billions & Billions | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Robert J. Sawyer | Starplex | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Jeffrey Schwartz | Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species | Non-fiction | Not recommended |
| David Siegel | Creating Killer Web Sites | Computing | Highly recommended |
| Brian L. Silver | The Ascent of Science | Non-fiction | Lightly recommended |
| Robert Silverberg | Lord Prestimion | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Robert Silverberg | Sorcerers of Majipoor | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Siyan & Weaver | Inside Java [1.1] | Computing | Not recommended |
| Steven Skiena | The Algorithm Design Manual | Computing | Recommended |
| Sriram Srinivasan | Advanced Perl Programming | Computing | Recommended |
| Neal Stephenson | CRYPTONOMICON | Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Edward R. Tufte | Visual Explanations | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| N.Ya. Vilenkin | In Search of Infinity | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Joan D. Vinge | Dreamfall | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Steven Vogel | Cat's Paws and Catapults | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Wall, Chrisiansen, & Schwarz | Programming Perl (2nd Ed.) | Computing | Highly recommended |
| Peter D. Ward | The Call of the Distant Mammoths | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| Brent B. Welch | Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk - 2nd Edition | Computing | Recommended |
| Gene Wolfe | Exodus from the Long Sun | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| N. Lee Wood | Looking for the Mahdi | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Timothy Zahn | Spectre of the Past/ Vision of the Future | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Title | Author | Genre | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the Universe | William Gutsch | Non-fiction | Lightly recommended |
| 3001: The Final Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| A House Built on Sand | Noretta Koertge | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Advanced Perl Programming | Sriram Srinivasan | Computing | Recommended |
| The Advent of the Algorithm | David Berlinski | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | Peter L. Bernstein | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| The Algorithm Design Manual | Steven Skiena | Computing | Recommended |
| Alice In Quantumland | Robert Gilmore | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| An Imaginary Tale - The Story of i | Paul J. Nahin | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Ancients of Days | Paul J. McAuley | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| The Ascent of Science | Brian L. Silver | Non-fiction | Lightly recommended |
| Before the Beginning | Sir Martin Rees | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Beyond Star Trek | Lawrence Krauss | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Billions & Billions | Carl Sagan | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| BLOOM | Wil McCarthy | Science Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Brightness Reef | David Brin | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| The Call of the Distant Mammoths | Peter D. Ward | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| Calling Crow Nation | Paul Clayton | Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Cat's Paws and Catapults | Steven Vogel | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| The Cell | Geoffrey Cooper | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Children of the Mind | Orson Scott Card | Science Fiction | Lightly recommended |
| COSM | Gregory Benford | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Creating Great Web Graphics | Laurie McCanna | Computing | Recommended |
| Creating Killer Web Sites | David Siegel | Computing | Highly recommended |
| CRYPTONOMICON | Neal Stephenson | Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Darksaber | Kevin Anderson | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Destiny's Road | Larry Niven | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| The Dilbert Future | Scott Adams | Humor | Recommended |
| Dinosaur Lives | John Horner w/ E. Dodd | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook | Scott Adams | Humor | Recommended |
| Dreamfall | Joan D. Vinge | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Dune: House Atreides | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Eggheads | Emily Devenport | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| The Elegant Universe | Brian Greene | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Excession | Iain M. Banks | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Exodus from the Long Sun | Gene Wolfe | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| The Fear Principle | B.A. Chepaitis | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Foundation and Chaos | Greg Bear | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Foundation's Fear | Gregory Benford | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Foundation's Triumph | David Brin | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Go Figure - Using Math to Answer Everyday Imponderables | Clint Brookhart | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Graphics and Web Page Design | Lemay, Duff, & Mohler | Computing | Recommended |
| Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | Science Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | Fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Heaven's Reach | David Brin | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Hubble's Universe: A Portrait of Our Cosmos | Simon Goodwin | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| IDORU | William Gibson | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| In Search of Infinity | N.Ya. Vilenkin | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| The Infinite Sea | Jeffrey Carver | Science Fiction | Somewhat Recommended |
| Infinity's Shore | David Brin | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Inside Java [1.1] | Siyan & Weaver | Computing | Not recommended |
| Java Networking and Communications | Todd Courtois | Computing | Not recommended |
| The Java Programming Language | K. Arnold & J. Gosling | Computing | Recommended |
| The Joy of Work | Scott Adams | Humor | Recommended |
| The Jungles of Randomness | Ivars Peterson | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| The Language of Mathmatics | Keith Devlin | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Legacy | Greg Bear | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms | Stephen Jay Gould | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Looking for the Mahdi | N. Lee Wood | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Lord Prestimion | Robert Silverberg | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| The Mathematical Universe | William Dunham | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers | Jan Gullberg | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| The Moment of Proof - Mathematical Epiphanies | Donald Benson | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| The Nature of Space and Time | S. Hawking & R. Penrose | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| The Pattern on the Stone | Daniel Hillis | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Patterns in the Sand | T. Bossomaier, D. Green | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| Planet of Twilight | Barbara Hambly | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk - 2nd Edition | Brent B. Welch | Computing | Recommended |
| The Practice of Programming | B.W. Kernighan & R. Pike | Computing | Highly Recommended |
| Privacy on the Line | W. Diffie & S. Landau | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| Programming Perl (2nd Ed.) | Wall, Chrisiansen, & Schwarz | Computing | Highly recommended |
| Programming Windows95 with MFC | Jeff Prosise | Computing | Recommended |
| Psycho Shop | Alfred Bester & Roger Zelazny | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Questioning the Millennium | Stephen Jay Gould | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| Rainbow Mars | Larry Niven | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Reptiles and Amphibians | H. Cogger & R. Zwiefel | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| RING | Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| The Ringworld Throne | Larry Niven | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel | Eric Idle | Humor | Highly Recommended |
| Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman | Walter M. Miller Jr | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Saturn Ruhk | Robert L. Forward | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Shadows of the Empire | Steve Perry | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Sorcerers of Majipoor | Robert Silverberg | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Spectre of the Past/ Vision of the Future | Timothy Zahn | Science Fiction | Recommended |
| Standing Wave | Howard V. Hendrix | Science Fiction | Not recommended |
| Starplex | Robert J. Sawyer | Science Fiction | Highly recommended |
| Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species | Jeffrey Schwartz | Non-fiction | Not recommended |
| TEMPtation - An Introduction to Busyness Management | Carol Feltman | Humor | Recommended |
| The Transparent Society | David Brin | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Visual Explanations | Edward R. Tufte | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| What Will Be | Michael Dertouzos | Non-fiction | Recommended |
| The Whole Shebang | Timothy Ferris | Non-fiction | Highly recommended |
| The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook | Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht | Non-fiction | Highly Recommended |
| Genre | Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computing | Advanced Perl Programming | Sriram Srinivasan | Recommended |
| The Algorithm Design Manual | Steven Skiena | Recommended | |
| Creating Great Web Graphics | Laurie McCanna | Recommended | |
| Creating Killer Web Sites | David Siegel | Highly recommended | |
| Graphics and Web Page Design | Lemay, Duff, & Mohler | Recommended | |
| Inside Java [1.1] | Siyan & Weaver | Not recommended | |
| Java Networking and Communications | Todd Courtois | Not recommended | |
| The Java Programming Language | K. Arnold & J. Gosling | Recommended | |
| Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk - 2nd Edition | Brent B. Welch | Recommended | |
| The Practice of Programming | B.W. Kernighan & R. Pike | Highly Recommended | |
| Programming Perl (2nd Ed.) | Wall, Chrisiansen, & Schwarz | Highly recommended | |
| Programming Windows95 with MFC | Jeff Prosise | Recommended | |
| Fiction | Calling Crow Nation | Paul Clayton | Highly recommended |
| CRYPTONOMICON | Neal Stephenson | Highly Recommended | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | Highly Recommended | |
| Humor | The Dilbert Future | Scott Adams | Recommended |
| Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook | Scott Adams | Recommended | |
| The Joy of Work | Scott Adams | Recommended | |
| The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel | Eric Idle | Highly Recommended | |
| TEMPtation - An Introduction to Busyness Management | Carol Feltman | Recommended | |
| Non-fiction | 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the Universe | William Gutsch | Lightly recommended |
| A House Built on Sand | Noretta Koertge | Recommended | |
| The Advent of the Algorithm | David Berlinski | Recommended | |
| Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | Peter L. Bernstein | Recommended | |
| Alice In Quantumland | Robert Gilmore | Recommended | |
| An Imaginary Tale - The Story of i | Paul J. Nahin | Recommended | |
| The Ascent of Science | Brian L. Silver | Lightly recommended | |
| Before the Beginning | Sir Martin Rees | Recommended | |
| Beyond Star Trek | Lawrence Krauss | Recommended | |
| Billions & Billions | Carl Sagan | Highly Recommended | |
| The Call of the Distant Mammoths | Peter D. Ward | Highly recommended | |
| Cat's Paws and Catapults | Steven Vogel | Highly Recommended | |
| The Cell | Geoffrey Cooper | Recommended | |
| Dinosaur Lives | John Horner w/ E. Dodd | Recommended | |
| The Elegant Universe | Brian Greene | Recommended | |
| Go Figure - Using Math to Answer Everyday Imponderables | Clint Brookhart | Recommended | |
| Hubble's Universe: A Portrait of Our Cosmos | Simon Goodwin | Recommended | |
| In Search of Infinity | N.Ya. Vilenkin | Recommended | |
| The Jungles of Randomness | Ivars Peterson | Recommended | |
| The Language of Mathmatics | Keith Devlin | Recommended | |
| Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms | Stephen Jay Gould | Highly Recommended | |
| The Mathematical Universe | William Dunham | Recommended | |
| Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers | Jan Gullberg | Highly recommended | |
| The Moment of Proof - Mathematical Epiphanies | Donald Benson | Recommended | |
| The Nature of Space and Time | S. Hawking & R. Penrose | Recommended | |
| The Pattern on the Stone | Daniel Hillis | Recommended | |
| Patterns in the Sand | T. Bossomaier, D. Green | Recommended | |
| Privacy on the Line | W. Diffie & S. Landau | Highly recommended | |
| Questioning the Millennium | Stephen Jay Gould | Highly recommended | |
| Reptiles and Amphibians | H. Cogger & R. Zwiefel | Recommended | |
| Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species | Jeffrey Schwartz | Not recommended | |
| The Transparent Society | David Brin | Highly Recommended | |
| Visual Explanations | Edward R. Tufte | Highly recommended | |
| What Will Be | Michael Dertouzos | Recommended | |
| The Whole Shebang | Timothy Ferris | Highly recommended | |
| The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook | Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht | Highly Recommended | |
| Science Fiction | 3001: The Final Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | Recommended |
| Ancients of Days | Paul J. McAuley | Recommended | |
| BLOOM | Wil McCarthy | Highly Recommended | |
| Brightness Reef | David Brin | Highly recommended | |
| Children of the Mind | Orson Scott Card | Lightly recommended | |
| COSM | Gregory Benford | Recommended | |
| Darksaber | Kevin Anderson | Not recommended | |
| Destiny's Road | Larry Niven | Recommended | |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | Highly recommended | |
| Dreamfall | Joan D. Vinge | Recommended | |
| Dune: House Atreides | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | Recommended | |
| Eggheads | Emily Devenport | Recommended | |
| Excession | Iain M. Banks | Recommended | |
| Exodus from the Long Sun | Gene Wolfe | Highly recommended | |
| The Fear Principle | B.A. Chepaitis | Recommended | |
| Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman | Recommended | |
| Foundation and Chaos | Greg Bear | Recommended | |
| Foundation's Fear | Gregory Benford | Recommended | |
| Foundation's Triumph | David Brin | Recommended | |
| Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | Highly Recommended | |
| Heaven's Reach | David Brin | Recommended | |
| IDORU | William Gibson | Highly recommended | |
| The Infinite Sea | Jeffrey Carver | Somewhat Recommended | |
| Infinity's Shore | David Brin | Highly recommended | |
| Legacy | Greg Bear | Recommended | |
| Looking for the Mahdi | N. Lee Wood | Recommended | |
| Lord Prestimion | Robert Silverberg | Recommended | |
| Planet of Twilight | Barbara Hambly | Not recommended | |
| Psycho Shop | Alfred Bester & Roger Zelazny | Recommended | |
| Rainbow Mars | Larry Niven | Not recommended | |
| RING | Stephen Baxter | Not recommended | |
| The Ringworld Throne | Larry Niven | Recommended | |
| Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman | Walter M. Miller Jr | Recommended | |
| Saturn Ruhk | Robert L. Forward | Highly recommended | |
| Shadows of the Empire | Steve Perry | Recommended | |
| Sorcerers of Majipoor | Robert Silverberg | Recommended | |
| Spectre of the Past/ Vision of the Future | Timothy Zahn | Recommended | |
| Standing Wave | Howard V. Hendrix | Not recommended | |
| Starplex | Robert J. Sawyer | Highly recommended |