A wide-ranging work of science and philosophy, centered around the idea that further progress in physics and cosmology will require the abandonment, already initiated by general relativity, of any conception of absolute space or time. Fantastic.
A Philip Marlowe mystery.
Rawl’s account of the possibility of a stable and just society in the presence of ‘reasonable pluralism’ – the existence of mutually incompatible but reasonable compresensive doctrines.
I recently remembered reading this some time ago.
Thompson’s account of his coverage, gonzo-style, of the Hell’s Angels biker gang during the 1960’s.
It seems unfair to label any novel set in the future as ‘science fiction’ when that phrase mainly applies to technology-oriented speculations on where science will be taking us (or our cyborg descendants).
McHugh’s novel, while helping itself to a small dollop of science fiction to get going, is entirely about people. And it is very good.
Written with Michael Staub, this book chronicles Williams’s tour of duty in Iraq.
An overview of the mathematics and philosophy of the infinite.
This book touches on many subjects including the transfinite numbers, Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems, the possibility of machine intelligence, the limits of human intelligence, the ultimate reality of mathematics, and the concept of the Absolute.
Essays by different authors defending evolution and the scientific method against the charges leveled by the Intelligent Design folks. Some good stuff, including a mind-blowing essay by Lee Smolin on the evolution of universes.
A history of the 19th century San Francisco police detective Isaiah W. Lees.