Recommendations for Cypherpunks Books

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, dmolnar wrote:

> It's also strange that there are relatively few science fiction books
> which talk about math. There are some noted short story collections (_The
> Mathematical Magpie_ and its sequel), short stories (Asimov's story about
> rediscovering "graphitics," Heinlein's "And He Built A Crooked House"),
> and authors (Rudy Rucker), but nowhere near the volume of SF based on
> physics.
> 
> Perhaps it's that there are fewer people familiar with math than with
> physics - which leads to fewer people writing such fiction and a smaller
> market for it. The same is true for crypto, except more so. 

Start with,

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder
ed. Rudy Rucker
ISBN 0-87795-891-2
     0-87795-890-4 (pbk.)

Stories by,

Rucker, Asimov, Kagan, Bear, Berman, Dnieprov, Gardner, Watson, Cramer,
Zebrowski, Hofstadter, Sakers, Orr, Laidlaw, Sheckley, Gross, Pohl, &
Benford.

There was supposed to be a second volume, don't know if it ever saw the
light of day...

Most of Ruckers fiction is related to math/physics,

Spacetime Donuts
White Light (What is Cantor's Continuum Problem?)
The Fifty-sixth Franz Kafka
The Sex Sphere
Master of Space and Time

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