📚Recommended Books
Trying to limit myself to keeping the same number of fiction and non-fiction items. It's hard.
Fiction
Canticle for Leibowitz
- Post apoc set in a monastery
- Part one starts in a "new dark age" then jumps 600 forward, then jumps another 600
Eifelheim
- Alt. history set in the 1300s or something like that.
- Alien encounter
- Discusses if Christian concept of salvation is for ET too
Lager Queen of Minnesota
- Two concurrent storylines a generation apart
- About a breakout brewer and her estranged craft beer niece
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- Near-future moon colonisation
- Wrote more about it here
Princess Bride
- If you think the film is decent or better, the book is fantastic
Not recommendations from me but here's a list of post-apocalyptic but pre-dystopian pieces, mostly books.
Non-fiction
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
- A collection of essays written before his suicide.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Way more exciting than it sounds.
- Key point, I guess, is how fiat currency isn’t for holding wealth, but for holding debt
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