{"id":674,"date":"2004-08-14T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=674"},"modified":"2004-08-14T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T22:39:39","slug":"the-book-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/08\/14\/the-book-queue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Queue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<br \/>\nBeside 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Cannery Row<\/i> by John Steinbeck<\/li>\n<li><i>Counter-Clock World<\/i> by Philip K Dick<\/li>\n<li><i>Adventures in Group Theory<\/i> by David Joyner<\/li>\n<li><i>Infinite Jest<\/i> by David Foster Wallace<\/li>\n<li><i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay<\/i> by Michael Chabon<\/li>\n<li><i>Quicksilver<\/i> by Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<li><i>The Metaphysical Club<\/i> by Louis Menand<\/li>\n<li><i>Cosmicomics<\/i> by Italo Calvino<\/li>\n<li><i>A People&#8217;s History of the United States<\/i> by Howard Zinn<\/li>\n<li><i>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/i> by Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li><i>The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time<\/i> edited by Barry Malzberg<\/li>\n<li><i>Turing (A Novel About Computation)<\/i> by Christos H. Papadimitriou<\/li>\n<li><i>Modern Elementary Particle Physics<\/i> by Gordon Kane<\/li>\n<li><i>The History of Western Philosophy<\/i> by Bertrand Russell<\/li>\n<li><i>The Year&#8217;s Best SF 8<\/i> edited by David G. Hartwell<\/li>\n<li><i>American Gods<\/i> by Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li><i>Great Sky River<\/i> by Gregory Benford<\/li>\n<li><i>Tides of Light<\/i> by Gregory Benford<\/li>\n<li><i>Furious Gulf<\/i> by Gregory Benford<\/li>\n<li><i>Sailing Bright Eternity<\/i> by Gregory Benford<\/li>\n<li><i>A Brief History of Economic Genius<\/i> by Paul Strathern<\/li>\n<li><i>Go To<\/i> by Steve Lohr<\/li>\n<li><i>Earthshaking Science<\/i> by Susan Elizabeth Hough<\/li>\n<li><i>Perdido Street Station<\/i> by China Mieville<\/li>\n<li><i>The Years of Rice and Salt<\/i> by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n<li><i>Dhalgren<\/i> by Samuel R. Delany<\/li>\n<li><i>Against Infinity<\/i> by Gregory Benford<\/li>\n<li><i>Eyes of the Calculor<\/i> by Sean McMullen<\/li>\n<li><i>Starfarers<\/i> by Poul Anderson<\/li>\n<li><i>Slow Learner<\/i> by Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li><i>The Alchemy of Finance<\/i> by George Soros<\/li>\n<li><i>A Random Walk Down Wall Street<\/i> by Burton G. Malkien<\/li>\n<li><i>Charisma<\/i> by Steven Barnes<\/li>\n<li><i>A Fire Upon the Deep<\/i> by Vernor Vinge<\/li>\n<li><i>Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum<\/i> by Umberto Eco<\/li>\n<li><i>Schild&#8217;s Ladder<\/i> by Greg Egan<\/li>\n<li><i>Cyteen: The Betrayal<\/i> by C.J. Cherryh<\/li>\n<li><i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/i> by Thomas S. Kuhn<\/li>\n<li><i>Atomic Physics: an exploration through problems and solutions<\/i> by Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Kimball, and David P. DeMille<\/li>\n<li><i>Ilium<\/i> by Dan Simmons<\/li>\n<li><i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i> by Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n<li><i>Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order<\/i> by George Johnson<\/li>\n<li><i>Prayers to Broken Stones<\/i> by Dan Simmons<\/li>\n<li><i>Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries?<\/i> by Martin Gardner<\/li>\n<li><i>Norstrilia<\/i> by Cordwainer Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ack!  What a queue!  Some of these books are in various states of being read, and a few, like <i>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/i>, I&#8217;ve read before, but are on a second read-around.<br \/>\nI 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/08\/14\/the-book-queue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Book Queue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}