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    2008:
    Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny
    Diplomacy
    by Henry Kissinger
    The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
    The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazier
    Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge
    The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge by Vernor Vinge

    2007:
    Military Nanotechnology by Jurgen Altmann
    Unbounding the Future by Christine Peterson, K. Eric Drexler, Gayle Pergamit
    The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis by Elaine Morgan
    Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

    2006:
    The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin
    Mind Matters by James P. Hogan
    After Life by Simon Funk
    Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells
    Life's Solution by Conway Morris
    The Empirical Stance by Bas C. Van Fraassen
    Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
    Engines of the Mind by Joel Shurin
    The Book of Nothing by John D. Barrow
    The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick

    2005:
    More Than Human by Ramez Naam
    Citizen Cyborg by James Hughes
    Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau
    The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
    Nanofuture by J. Storrs Hall
    Science in Everyday Life by William C. Vergara
    On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
    Nanotechnology and Homeland Security by Daniel Ratner and Mark A. Ratner
    Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid edited by Robert J. Sternberg

    2004:
    Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgement edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, et al.
    Choices, Values, and Frames edited by Daniel Kahneman and Amon Tversky
    Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases edited by Daniel Kahneman and Amon Tversky

    The Gulag Archipelago
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Introduction to Embryology by B. I. Balinsky
    Human Neuroanatomy
    by Raymond Truex and Malcom Carpenter
    The Divine Invasion
    by Phillip K. Dick
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Phillip K. Dick
    A Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

    2003:
    The Birth of the Mind by Gary Marcus
    The Blank Slate
    by Steven Pinker
    Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
    by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, and the ABC Research Group
    Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald D. Hoffman
    Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells
    The Brain
    by Richard Restak
    Rational Choice in an Uncertain World
    by Reid Hastie & Robyn M. Dawes
    The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
    Kinds of Minds by Daniel Dennett
    The Neurological Boundaries of Reality by Edmund Critchley
    The Amazing Brain by Robert Ornstein & Richard Thompson
    The Bionic People Are Here by Dr. Arthur S. Freese
    Homo Sapiens by Bernhard Rensch
    The Descent of Mind edited by Michael C. Corballis & Stephen E. G. Lea
    The Golden Age by John Wright
    A User's Guide to the Brain by Dr. John Ratey
    Superintelligent Machines by Bill Hibbard
    The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
    The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
    Living With Our Genes by Dean Hamer & Peter Copeland
    The Adapted Mind edited by Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
    The Accelerating Universe by Mario Livio
    The Path to Posthumanity by Ben Goertzel
    The Miraculous Mind Attractor by Ben Goertzel
    From Complexity to Creativity by Ben Goertzel
    The Evolving Mind by Ben Goertzel
    Up From Dragons by John R. Skoyles & Dorion Sagan
    The Four Dimensions of Consciousness by Richard M. Pico
    The Artilect War by Hugo de Garis
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
    Robot by Hans Moravec

    2002:
    The Spike by Damien Broderick
    Levels of Organization in General Intelligence by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
    Ethical Love by Avatar Polymorph
    Nonzero by Robert Wright
    The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
    Metamagical Themas by Douglas R. Hofstadter
    The Electric Meme by Robert Aunger
    Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe by Michael Langan
    A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
    The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
    A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
    The Mind's I by Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter
    The Imitation Factor by Lee Alan Dugatkin
    Faster Than Light by Nick Herbert
    Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert
    Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
    How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
    The Diachronic Self by Max More
    Chaotic Logic by Ben Goertzel
    Artificial Intelligence by John Haugeland
    The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. E.B. White
    Unificiation of Science and Spirit by Ben Goertzel
    The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka
    The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
    Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche
    The Antichrist by Freidrich Nietzsche
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Freidrich Nietzsche
    On the Genealogy of Morals by Freidrich Nietzsche
    Ecce Homo by Freidrich Nietzsche
    Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Freidrich Nietzsche

    2001:
    Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
    Creating Friendly AI by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
    General Intelligence and Seed AI by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
    Plan to Singularity by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
    The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
    The Age of Intelligent Machines by Ray Kurzweil
    Mind Children by Hans Moravec
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

    2000:
    The Wizard of Quarks by Robert Gilmore
    Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore
    Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
    The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
    The Next 500 Years by Adrian Berry
    Visions by Michio Kaku
    Einstein: A Life in Science by Michael White
    Nanosystems by K. Eric Drexler
    The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

    Pre-2000:
    Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis
    Who Got Einstein's Office? by Ed Regis
    Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler
    The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler
    Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
    The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler
    The Millennial Project by Marshall T. Savage
    The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
    The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
    Where Does the Weirdness Go? by David Lindley
    The Edges of Science by Richard Morris
    Quantum Questions by Ken Wilber
    Inventing Reality by Bruce Gregory
    Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
    Mossflower by Brian Jacques
    Redwall by Brian Jacques
    Salamandastron by Brian Jacques
    Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
    Nano by Ed Regis
    The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
    A Scientist in the City by James Trefil
    The Origin of the Universe by John D. Barrow
    A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
    The Reflexive Universe by Arthur M. Young