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10 best books like Winter in Eden (Harry Harrison): Flashforward, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency, Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys, The Boat of a Million Years, The Chains That You Refuse, The Carpet People, Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima, New Frontiers: A Collection of Tales About the Past, the Present, and the Future

Flashforward
AuthorRobert J. Sawyer
ISBN0812580346
FLASHFORWARD

Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world

Suddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.

But...
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
AuthorBen Mezrich
ISBN0385529376
The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school...
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
AuthorMike Isaac
ISBN0393652246
In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.


Award-winning New...
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
AuthorAnnie Jacobsen
ISBN0316371769
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In...
Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
AuthorBilly Crystal
ISBN0805098232
Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America’s favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career

Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he’s not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come...
The Boat of a Million Years
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0765310244
Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to...
The Chains That You Refuse
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN1597800481
A new collection by one of the most popular and prolific authors of the last few years covers a wide range of material, from time travel to cyberpunk to contemporary fantasy. Twenty stories and two poems, originally published in high profile places like SciFi.com and Asimov's.

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The Carpet People
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0544212479
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . . That’s the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and there’s a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet....
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
AuthorJames Mahaffey
ISBN1480447749
A “delightfully astute” and “entertaining” history of the mishaps and meltdowns that have marked the path of scientific progress (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Radiation: What could go wrong? In short, plenty. From Marie Curie carrying around a vial of radium salt because...
New Frontiers: A Collection of Tales About the Past, the Present, and the Future
AuthorBen Bova
New Frontiers, fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award

Frontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit....
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