PS I just finished George Dyson's latest, Analogia. It's a stunning tour de force, a wide-ranging book that includes a heartbreaking chronicle of the genocide of Native Americans, riffs about Project Orion (a spaceship powered by atomic bombs) as well as a three-hundred-year arc of the past and f...
George Dyson's book Analogia has been on this list before, but it's worth repeating. The same goes for The Gift by Lewis Hyde and the Bandwidth series by Eliot Peper.