Packing for the move to Santa Fe has begun! So far I have 28 boxes of books stacked in my room. Everytime I look at them my back hurts.
Beside my bed I keep a queue of books that I am reading or have recently purchased and am planning on reading. Here is the final state of my South Pasadena book queue:
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- Counter-Clock World by Philip K Dick
- Adventures in Group Theory by David Joyner
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
- Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry Malzberg
- Turing (A Novel About Computation) by Christos H. Papadimitriou
- Modern Elementary Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
- The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- The Year’s Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
- Tides of Light by Gregory Benford
- Furious Gulf by Gregory Benford
- Sailing Bright Eternity by Gregory Benford
- A Brief History of Economic Genius by Paul Strathern
- Go To by Steve Lohr
- Earthshaking Science by Susan Elizabeth Hough
- Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
- Against Infinity by Gregory Benford
- Eyes of the Calculor by Sean McMullen
- Starfarers by Poul Anderson
- Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
- The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkien
- Charisma by Steven Barnes
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- Schild’s Ladder by Greg Egan
- Cyteen: The Betrayal by C.J. Cherryh
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
- Atomic Physics: an exploration through problems and solutions by Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Kimball, and David P. DeMille
- Ilium by Dan Simmons
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George Johnson
- Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
- Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries? by Martin Gardner
- Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Ack! What a queue! Some of these books are in various states of being read, and a few, like Gravity’s Rainbow, I’ve read before, but are on a second read-around.
I have a month off and these all go in two special boxes and will travel with me on my trip around the west. How many will I get through before I start at SFI? Let the betting begin at zero.