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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Playing With Sharp Objects - Latest Comments in Summer Book List</title><link>http://shokk.disqus.com/</link><description></description><atom:link href="https://shokk.disqus.com/summer_book_list/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 May 2003 09:43:00 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Summer Book List</title><link>http://www.shokk.com/blog/articles/2003/05/12/summer-book-list/#comment-1177499</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Check out the list of &lt;a href="http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1016184" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1016184"&gt;Books That Will Give You a Mindf***&lt;/a&gt;. Some of my favorite authors are in there, so you might want to think about adding them to your Amazon wishlist.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Authors like Philip K Dick, many of whose books have been turned into Hollywood blockbusters. There are plenty of his works that haven’t even been touched yet, so grab them while they’re still fresh. The works of Neal Stephenson and Willaim Gibson, who both set the stage for the cyberpunk themes that inspired works such as The Matrix. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Free John F.X. Sundman books in PDF form: &lt;a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/Acts_of_the_Apostles.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.kuro5hin.org/Acts_of_the_Apostles.pdf"&gt;Acts of the Apostles&lt;/a&gt; (the underground sensation about a Silicon Valley Messiah) and &lt;a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/Cheap_Complex_Devices.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.kuro5hin.org/Cheap_Complex_Devices.pdf"&gt;Cheap Complex Devices&lt;/a&gt; (winner of the Hofstadter Prize for computer-written novels) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Free Online Novel: &lt;a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/"&gt;The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Locus 2003 SciFi/Fantasy &lt;a href="http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Issues/02RecommendedReading.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Issues/02RecommendedReading.html"&gt;Recommended Reading List&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">shokk</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2003 09:43:00 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>