Schneier on Security

6 best books like Schneier on Security (Bruce Schneier): The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, The Rowan, Forward the Foundation, The Real Frank Zappa Book, The White Dragon, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Author	Simon Singh
ISBN	0385495323

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...

The Rowan

Author	Anne McCaffrey
ISBN	0517086034

Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci-fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued...

Forward the Foundation

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553565079

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Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring...

The Real Frank Zappa Book

Author	Frank Zappa
ISBN	0330316257

The first third of this book is really Zappa talking in a tongue in cheek manner about his career. Unfortunately, the second two thirds is more or less ranting about people he didn't like, his politics in the 80s (which I mostly agreed with but that is NOT why I wanted to read this book) and we do not learn much...

The White Dragon

Author	Anne McCaffrey
ISBN	0345341678

Yes by all means, judge a book set in a feudalistic world surrounded by dragon on your personal interpretation of feminism on Earth circa 2013. This makes no sense to me. If you're going to read a book I think you should read a book and suspend your sense of self to really get a feel for the world that's being...

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Author	Fred Kaplan
ISBN	1476763259

The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future - the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prize-winning...