The Kindling

Author	Sabine Hossenfelder
ISBN	0465094252

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.

Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular...

Author	Mildred Ames
ISBN	0590410024

Childhood favorite. Or not favorite really; it gave me the creeps. Eerie book about cloning and government manipulation, precursor in some ways to my most adored Cyteen. Has strong incestuous undertones between non-blood-related siblings forced to rely on each other because everyone else is untrustworthy...

Author	Helen Mary Hoover
ISBN	0765345676

This is one of my all time favorite books. I probably read it at least once a year.

This is set in the future, where EVERYONE lives in the City. "The City is old" is something that is said often.

I loved it cause it was dirty and gritty, and people were weird and creepy. It was like Logan's Run...

Author	Gillian Rubinstein
ISBN	0689812353

Another Australian book, this time, what was one of my first forays into science fiction, and also perhaps one of the darker books I encountered. Not dark just because of the theme of its plot – children kidnapped into space to perform high-risk gymnastics so their adrenalin rush would be transmuted...

Author

L.J. Adlington

Pelly D thinks her whole glorious life stretches ahead of her; but young building worker Toni V has just found her diary, buried in a water can, in rubble, in a construction site. There's a note: Dig, Dig Everywhere. It's forbidden, Toni V knows, but curiosity drives him on - he hides the diary, and begins...