Alternative Realities

It's about Fortean phenomena, and about the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. It was a huge influence on "The X-Files".

I found out about it from the hippie commune I was in, in the 1990s.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever been on the Internet.

(It's cheaper in hardcover, for some reason? https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-...../dp/0816032130 )

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, it's so goddamn cyberpunk .

Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-UN Envoy turned criminal is killed on Harlan`s world. His mind is then bought by an immortal rich dude, sleeved into the vacant body of a disgraced hardnosed detective to solve his client's mysterious suicide. Cyberpunk detective shenanigans ensue.

Libraries are a wonderful institution.

Anyone who loves good sci-fi concepts and a borderline evil main character, who is also the rare antagonist hero. He breaks your shit, proactively.

Oh, Monster Hunter international is a good one, Larry Correia is actually from my neck of the woods appropriately enough.

A giant beef/human hybrid accountant/competition shooter kills his boss, who is a werewolf. This impresses some people, and he's hired onto a team that kills monsters for money. Cue a lot of gun porn. It's one of those internet novels that made it to print, like Metro 2033.

Only this one came from a gun nut forum. The concept was literally "what if the characters in horror movies weren't dumb underequipped wusses". Of course then he had to make the monsters broken as shit, like, vampires in MHI are literally unkillable flashstepping humanoid abominations. They openly mock you while you hose them down with a flamethrower.


I find all my books at the library.

And read it if you ever wanted to see someone look an eldritch abomination in the eye, the put that eye out with a bayonet attached to an automatic shotgun. Also, Frankenstein is a G-man.

Call of the Wild. It's not an obscure title, but it is dear to me. It's about a house dog that is forced into being a sled dog. I came across it in a book store. And I would recommend it to anyone who's had a very drastic change in their lives. Whether moving, or a change in situation. It's very motivating, mostly when I was coping with having moved to Mexico.

If not a novel, the Spanish book titled "Microcontrolador PIC16F84" is one book that despite being rather dated and of one model of microcontroller, teaches a lot about microcontrollers and digital electronics. It's also super useful to have for simple project ideas in electronics if you're avoiding Arduino. I bought it because it was in a recommended booklist for highschool. I've had it for years and I still flip through it sometimes. If anyone needs a basic understanding of microcontrollers, assembly language, digital electronics, and doesn't mind reading in Spanish I totally recommend this. I love this book, it's no novel but it's followed me everywhere in my career.