Scott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄 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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Editor at Large, @cnet - VR/AR, immersive, wearable, games, theater, new interfaces, strange creativity. @scottstein@mastodon.social / bluesky / threads
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Kim FuScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄6. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (Kim Fu) My favorite type of elusive, dreamlike stories. A return to some of the landscape of Orange World. I thought it would be a collection about monsters. …was it? https://t.co/QZ1hJhCc9x
Paperback, 2022
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Liberation Day: Stories
George SaundersScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄4. Liberation Day - George Saunders A puzzle of a short story collection. Empathy and distancing. Feels infused with the Russian short stories Saunders studies…more than previous collections. Favorite story might be Elliott Spencer. https://t.co/iyjgMwrtTP
Paperback, 2023
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A Brief Moment in Time: A Short Story Collection
T. W. SpencerScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄4. Liberation Day - George Saunders A puzzle of a short story collection. Empathy and distancing. Feels infused with the Russian short stories Saunders studies…more than previous collections. Favorite story might be Elliott Spencer. https://t.co/iyjgMwrtTP
Paperback, 2015
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Geek Love
Katherine DunnScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄13. Geek Love (Katherine Dunn) What a sad, brutal, cozy, horrific book. Feelings somewhere between Confederacy of Dunces and Kurt Vonnegut. A book as chilly as November. https://t.co/829PzGdCwt
Paperback, 2002
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
Caspar HendersonScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄8. (Last one was 7) The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: a 21st Century Bestiary (Caspar Henderson) Inspired by Borges, each chapter focuses on a real animal- discussions drift to philosophy and history. A reminder of humanity’s limits and massive impact. https://t.co/2aUhDADTmu
Paperback, 2014
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The Overstory
Richard PowersScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄11. The Overstory (Richard Powers) Took a long time to finally read this; so glad I did. Tangled, emergent, haunting, dire, hopeful. About trees, people, time, our destructive cycles, communication. One of my favorite reads in a while. https://t.co/qgiY1clFoY
Paperback, 2019
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White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
Kelly LinkScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄5. White Cat, Black Dog - @haszombiesinit I love Kelly Link’s work. This one reminded me of half-dreams. Standing on an edge. Fairy tales that you’re not clear are fairy tales. The joys of strange holes. Made me rediscover. https://t.co/UQwsM11dfa
Paperback, 2023
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The Book of Imaginary Beings: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Jorge Luis BorgesScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄Books read, 2023: 1: The Book of Imaginary Beings - Borges One of my long-treasured, never-read books. Took a long time to browse all the encyclopedic entries. A sense of information lost and found and lost again. Layers of erasure. And who imagined them? https://t.co/VbSw9WVANd
Paperback, 2006
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The Last Samurai
Helen DeWittScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄6. The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt) An endless loop of searching…academic, then about finding a father. A pick recommended for a book club I’m part of. It dovetailed with my gallbladder ER visit and watching Seven Samurai for the first time. https://t.co/mmnkFS0X2k
Paperback, 2016
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Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo
Reggie Fils-AiméScott Stein 👓🥽⌚️🎲🪄5. Disrupting The Game (@Reggie) Lessons on management and work, stories from Reggie Fils-Aimé’s years with Nintendo, and thoughts on the gaming industry. Read/watch our conversation: https://t.co/jb5y4kEDPB
Paperback, 2025
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