- The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil, Viking Penguin
- The Hand by Frank Wilson, Pantheon
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, Vintage
- When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld, Hodder & Stoughton
- Lamarck鈥檚 Signature by Edward Steele, Perseus
- Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, Allen Lane
- What Remains to be Discovered by John Maddox, Free Press
- The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman, MIT Press
- Search for Superstrings by John Gribbin, Little, Brown
- The Self-Made Tapestry by Philip Ball, Oxford University Press
Science fiction and science collide more and more frequently: Ray Kurzweil鈥檚
book is a prime example as he considers what may happen if machines overtake us
in intelligence.
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Codysbks@well.com.) for science bestsellers first published in hardback or
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