Alien Hand Syndrome and Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories

5 best books like Alien Hand Syndrome and Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories (Alan Bellows): What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Badlands, Book One of Two, Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	0544272994

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science...

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	1473680336

How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...

The Badlands, Book One of Two

Author	Susan Wright
ISBN	0671039571

Located dangerously near the Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent plasma storms and other even stranger phenomena. Many starships have faced destruction there, including at least two incarnations...

Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD

Author	Stewart Cowley
ISBN	0890092117

In middle school, I used to stare at this book for hours on end, imagining that distant future. Let's put this in context: Star Wars was one movie, Cylons were chrome-plated clods, and Space Invaders vied with Astroids for the title of 'Best Video Game.' Can't remember a thing about the text, but the pictures...

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	0544668251

In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use...