Perseus Spur
8 best books like Perseus Spur (Julian May): The Day of the Jackal, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, The Undiscovered Self, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, The Warlock in Spite of Himself, Heris Serrano, In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
| Author | Frederick Forsyth |
| ISBN | 0553266306 |
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The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.
One ...
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0330343475 |
I've read about neurologist Oliver Sacks in other books but I'm pretty sure this was my first experience reading one of his books and I actually really enjoyed it. Sacks writes up narratives for patients he works with or people he meets with neurological conditions in a way that makes it much easier to...
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0451217322 |
In his classic, provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung-one of psychiatry's greatest minds-argues that the future depends on our ability to resist society's mass movements. Only by understanding our unconscious inner nature-"the undiscovered self"-can we gain the self-knowledge that is antithetical...
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| ISBN | 1466873825 |
Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late....
| Author | Christopher Stasheff |
| ISBN | 0441873022 |
The book starts off as typical sci-fi/fantasy fodder: An undercover agent, Rodney Gallowglass, discovers an entire planet of earth-descended espers who cut off communications with their home planet centuries before. By the time Rodney finds them they've structured their civilization based on...
| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
| ISBN | 0743435524 |
Fleet officer Heris Serrano came from a family of Fleet officers, so when a lying superior forced her to resign, life lost all meaning. To pay the bills, she became Captain of a rich old lady's interstellar luxury yacht, adding insult to injury. But Cecelia, the rich old lady, had more brains than most...
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally...
