====== Books to look for ======



===== Non-Fiction =====

  * Traces of Guilt, Neil Barrett
  * Write Great Code, Randall Hyde
  * Developing Java Software, Russel Winder & Graham Roberts
  * The Improving State of the World, Indur Goklany

  * Loopholes of the Rich, Diane Kennedy
  * The Die Broke Complete Book of Money, Stephen Pollan
  * The Road to Wealth, Suze Orman
  * Don't Mess with My Money, Ken Dolan, Daria Dolan

  * Them, Jon Ronson
  * The Book of Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile

  * Dinesh D'Souza

  * National Geographic magazines

===== Fiction =====

  * Against a Dark Background, Iain M. Banks
  * The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross

Also, find a wiki dedicated to discussing hard science fiction.