x86-64 Machine-Level Programming
A good introduction for anyone to learn x86-64 assembly.
Rust Error Handling
Discussed a number of different levels of error handling: unwrap, String,
Box<Error + Send + Sync> and From, Error, try!. Quite fun read!
Book lists The Best Books in 2015
Science Fiction Books
| First Pub | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | George Orwell | 1984 (Signet Classics) |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2001 a Space Odyssey | |
| 1960 | Walter M. Miller Jr. | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| 1996 | George R. R. Martin | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) |
| 1968 | Ursula K. Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle) |
| 1962 | Madeleine L’Engle | A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) |
| 2003 | Richard K. Morgan | Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) |
| 2001 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods |
| 2011 | Jo Walton | Among Others (Hugo Award Winner – Best Novel) |
| 2013 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) |
| 2014 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) |
| Robin Hobb | Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) | |
| 1985 | Greg Bear | Blood Music |
| 1932 | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
| 1953 | Arthur C. Clarke | Childhood’s End |
| 2004 | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas: A Novel |
| 1998 | Anne Bishop | Daughter of the Blood (Black Jewels, Book 1) |
| 1975 | Samuel R. Delany | Dhalgren |
| 1968 | Philip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| 1992 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book |
| 1968 | Anne McCaffrey | Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern – Volume 1) |
| 1965 | Frank Herbert | Dune |
| 1985 | Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game (The Ender Quintet) |
| 1953 | Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 |
| 1994 | C. J. Cherryh | Foreigner: (10th Anniversary Edition) |
| 1818 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| 1990 | Neil Gaiman | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch |
| 2008 | Kristin Cashore | Graceling |
| 1989 | Sheri S. Tepper | Grass |
| 2002 | Laurell K. Hamilton | Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1) |
| 2005 | H. P. Lovecraft | H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) |
| 1997 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
| 2010 | Charles Yu | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel |
| 1986 | Diana Wynne Jones | Howl’s Moving Castle |
| 1989 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) |
| 1954 | Richard Matheson | I Am Legend |
| 1950 | Isaac Asimov | I, Robot |
| 1976 | Anne Rice | Interview with the Vampire |
| 2004 | Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel |
| 2003 | Octavia E. Butler | Kindred |
| 2001 | Jacqueline Carey | Kushiel’s Dart (Kushiel’s Legacy) |
| 1977 | Stephen R. Donaldson | Lord Foul’s Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1) |
| 1984 | William Gibson | Neuromancer |
| 1984 | Angela Carter | Nights at the Circus |
| 2005 | John Scalzi | Old Man’s War |
| 1991 | Diana Gabaldon | Outlander |
| 1982 | David Eddings | Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad) |
| 2000 | China Miéville | Perdido Street Station |
| 2011 | Ernest Cline | Ready Player One: A Novel |
| 1993 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) |
| 2014 | Pierce Brown | Red Rising |
| 1976 | Patricia A. McKillip | Riddle-Master |
| 1970 | Larry Niven | Ringworld (A Del Rey book) |
| 1995 | Garth Nix | Sabriel (Old Kingdom) |
| 2009 | Richard Kadrey | Sandman Slim: A Novel |
| 1969 | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| 1992 | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash |
| 1961 | Stanislaw Lem | Solaris |
| 1959 | Robert A. Heinlein | Starship Troopers |
| 2010 | Ted Chiang | Stories of Your Life and Others |
| 1961 | Robert A. Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land |
| 1983 | Terry Pratchett | The Color of Magic (Discworld) |
| 2001 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion (Chalion series) |
| 1984 | Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence) |
| 1974 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle) |
| 1988 | Tad Williams | The Dragonbone Chair: Book One of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn |
| 1990 | Robert Jordan | The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) |
| 1974 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War |
| 1995 | Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials |
| 2013 | Helene Wecker | The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel (P.S.) |
| 1982 | Stephen King | The Gunslinger: (The Dark Tower #1)(Revised Edition) |
| 1990 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| 1979 | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| 1937 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit |
| 2008 | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games (Book 1) |
| 1968 | Peter S. Beagle | The Last Unicorn |
| 1969 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Science Fiction) |
| 1984 | C. S. Lewis | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) |
| 1954 | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition |
| 2009 | Lev Grossman | The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) |
| 2014 | Andy Weir | The Martian |
| 1950 | Ray Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles |
| 1983 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Mists of Avalon |
| 2007 | Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle) |
| 1987 | William Goldman | The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure |
| 2009 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road |
| 2012 | Daniel O’Malley | The Rook: A Novel |
| 1996 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Moon | The Speed of Dark (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) |
| 1956 | Alfred Bester | The Stars My Destination |
| 1977 | Terry Brooks | The Sword of Shannara |
| 1895 | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine |
| 2003 | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler’s Wife |
| 2010 | Brandon Sanderson | The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive, The) |
| 2009 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl |
| 1870 | Jules Verne | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| 2005 | Scott Westerfeld | Uglies |
| 2015 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted |
| 2011 | Hugh Howey | Wool |
| 2006 | Max Brooks | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War |