Oliver Morton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered
E. F. SchumacherOliver MortonRemarkably, or perhaps, alas, not remarkably, I can find no evidence of @TheEconomist ever having reviewed E F Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful"
Paperback, 2010
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Glimpses
Lewis ShinerOliver Morton@jtemple Its fiction, but do they have "Glimpses" by Lewis Shiner? Great book
Paperback, 2010
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor VingeOliver Morton@Robotbeat "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge: one of the truly great space operas and also a magnificent novel of first contact. Or "The Moon and the Other" by John Kessel, the best novel set on the Moon written so far this century
Paperback, 2023
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A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage
Joe JacksonOliver Morton@frankcottrell_b @Tim_Burgess @MickeyUndertone Thanks -- v solid recommendation Have you read Joe Jackson's "A Cure for Gravity"? Good stuff
Paperback, 2005
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Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics
Andrew PickeringOliver Morton@Philip_Goff @CERN A foundational work on this is Andrew Pickering's "Constructing Quarks" https://t.co/x3H8rKdat2 though the field has changed a lot in many ways since it was written (I imagine what counted as "big" when it was written and I read it seems quaint now).
Paperback, 1999
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed YongOliver Morton@tomjrowley Tamed Alice Roberts Transcendent Gaia Vince Science in the 20th Century Jon Agar Life As We Made It Beth Shapiro An Immense World Ed Yong The Book of Minds Phil Ball The Man from the Future Ananyo Bhattacharya (which I should have recommended for biography too)
Paperback, 2023
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Eon
Greg BearOliver MortonSo sorry to hear that Greg Bear has died. I knew him a little, liked him a lot. He had quite the golden phase in the 1980s with Eon, Blood Music (the novella: novel is pretty good too), Tangents, Forge of God.
Paperback, 2015
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
James LovelockOliver Morton@Dominic2306 Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin Homage to Gaia - James Lovelock Distraction - Bruce Sterling The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes Biology is Technology - Rob Carlson Frankenstein - Shelley We Have Never Been Modern -- Latour
Paperback, 2016
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Blood Music
Greg BearOliver MortonSo sorry to hear that Greg Bear has died. I knew him a little, liked him a lot. He had quite the golden phase in the 1980s with Eon, Blood Music (the novella: novel is pretty good too), Tangents, Forge of God.
Paperback, 2014
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Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Douglas R. HofstadterOliver Morton@SirPlaguecheek @jjaron @tds153 You might also enjoy Hofstadter's "Le Ton Beau de Marot"
Paperback, 1998
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