Wiki Index

Summary: Table of contents for the DG Library knowledge base. All wiki pages are listed here.

Last updated: 2026-05-23 (+2 concept pages: exchange-surfaces, transaction)

About this wiki

This wiki is a structured knowledge base built from books I have read in the past 20 years or so, along with reading notes. It is not “all the books I’ve read” by any stretch of the imagination. Most of the books are digital, although I did include some of the physical books. I have not included poetry and Buddhism. The work I’ve proofread or edited is not here in its entirety. My writing is not in here, that would be self-aggrandizing, wouldn’t it? Books like The Lord of the Rings, or Shakespeare, or the Bible are not included, mostly because they represent reading I did a very long time ago, those books are like the soil in which the ideas in the material from the past few decades is planted. Source documents live in Raw/ and are never modified. Claude maintains all pages in wiki/ based on user-guided ingestion and analysis.

253 files are in Raw/: 92 fully annotated (69 fiction, 21 non-fiction, 2 academic documents) and ~159 stubs created from CSV import awaiting highlights. Concept pages below were created by single-pass pattern analysis across the annotated files.

Concept pages

Mind and cognition

dual-process-cognition — System 1/2 (Kahneman) = amygdala/frontal cortex (Sapolsky); the master cross-book link
stress-and-cognition — Stress degrades frontal cortex, hands control to the amygdala
dopamine-and-anticipation — Dopamine tracks pursuit and prediction, not reward itself
narrative-bias — WYSIATI: the mind builds coherent stories from incomplete information
identity — Identity as the last scarce resource in post-scarcity; attachment blocks learning; trauma as constructor

Biology and behavior

genes-are-not-destiny — Genes specify context-dependent tendencies, not outcomes
childhood-adversity-and-the-brain — Early adversity physically reshapes frontal cortex and amygdala
oxytocin — The “love hormone” is parochial: prosocial within group, xenophobic toward others
free-will-and-moral-responsibility — What remains of responsibility once biology is accounted for?

Society and culture

in-group-out-group — Tribalism is wired in; gossip, honor cultures, and the dark side of oxytocin
collectivist-vs-individualist — Rice vs. wheat farming as the ecological root of East/West cultural split
cooperation-game-theory — Tit for Tat, reciprocal altruism, Big Gods, and how cooperation starts
coopetition — Simultaneous cooperation and competition with rivals; absorptive capacity as the mediating mechanism; more than half fail
violence-and-the-long-peace — Has violence declined? Pinker vs. the archaeologists
political-manipulation — Manufactured dissatisfaction + targeted anger as tools of control (Herbert, Gurri)
reconciliation-vs-defeat — Wars end durably through reconciliation, not victory (Corey, Tchaikovsky)
trust — Trust as a bet on future contingent actions; the marshmallow test as a trust problem, not a willpower problem

Language and learning

language-testing-and-identity — Tests construct what they claim to measure; washback and validity
happiness-vs-meaning — Two separate goods that often pull in opposite directions

AI alignment

ai-alignment-failure-modes — three failure modes: proxy erosion (“whimper”), influence-seeking phase transition (“bang”), and interface-layer undermining of human judgment

AI and language models

llm-and-mind — Concept page synthesizing philosophical, biological, and empirical evidence on what LLMs are and are not semantically and cognitively
ai-in-b2b-marketing — AI competency model for B2B contexts; organizational bundling (not tools) drives performance; applied to negotiation automation
predictive-coding — Theory that the brain learns via prediction-error minimization; empirical support from language studies now contested by Schönmann et al. (2026)

Organizations and management

brand-negativity — Functional vs. moral brand lapses; escalation from individual complaint to anti-brand community; early warning signals
iso-standards — ISO 9001:2015 (quality) + ISO 45001:2018 (H&S) risk and opportunity management procedure; risk matrix, treatment options, escalation paths
hybrid-work — Home vs. office tradeoffs; self-regulatory gap; coworking as social fix for isolation; JD-R framing
self-leadership — Behavioral and cognitive strategies for self-directed performance; self-punishment is detrimental
work-engagement — Vigor/dedication/absorption; day-level state, not stable trait; self-leadership as proximate predictor
creativity — Radical (transformation) vs. incremental (refinement): different social conditions, different embeddedness requirements
workplace-wellbeing — Employee wellbeing as org-level outcome; JD-R model; digitization reduces demands + anxiety; mindfulness contingent on trust foundation
exchange-surfaces — Gatherings and media as exchange surfaces; support reciprocity; transactions are reciprocal but rarely equal
transaction — The micro-level unit where values either manifest as real behavior or are exposed as performance

Reference pages

banks-culture — The Culture series: Minds, Special Circumstances, post-scarcity, and reading order
banks-graeber-connections — Six structural parallels between Banks’s Culture and Graeber’s revisionist prehistory

Book pages (Banks)

banks-excession — The Outside Context Problem arrives; Minds politick; the Dependency Principle
banks-use-of-weapons — SC agent, trauma, identity; beliefs precede justification; consciousness
banks-the-player-of-games — Empire built on a game; “a guilty system recognizes no innocents”
banks-the-algebraist — Non-Culture; Dwellers; stasis vs. change as a definition of life

LessWrong source pages

christiano-what-failure-looks-like — Christiano (LW 2019): two failure modes — proxy erosion (“whimper”) and influence-seeking phase transition (“bang”)
lesswrong-consciousness — LW wiki overview of consciousness: taxonomy, intellectual history, physicalist stance, moral patienthood
magfrump-sculpted-interaction — magfrump (LW 2026): chatbot interface was never designed; Metaformalism Copilot as structured verification-grounded alternative
taylor-ai-honesty-policy — Taylor, Finnveden, Dalton (Forethought 2026): honesty tags and compensation policy for credible human–AI communication

Language Log source pages

language-log-acronym-lengths — Liberman (2026): distribution of initialism lengths; 3-letter peak; polysemy as the rule
language-log-gigo — Mair (2026): scientific publishing fraud industrialized by paper mills; AI amplifies GIGO; Northwestern/Amaral study
language-log-grammarly-expert — Liberman (2026): Grammarly/Superhuman fake expert review; identity misappropriation; Angwin class-action

Web article source pages

games-with-words-statistical-power — Games with Words (2015): publication bias inflates effect sizes; underpowered studies; contingent stopping; the self-concealing replication crisis
language-nerd-indirect-speech-acts — Ask the League of Nerds (2016): indirect speech acts; politeness as legal liability; courts reject indirect requests for counsel

Academic source pages

schonmann-predictive-coding-brain — Schönmann et al. / Antonello (eLife 2026): pre-onset brain encoding explained by language statistics not predictive coding; encoding models are correlational
patterer-self-leadership-remote-work — Patterer et al. (Scientific Reports 2024): self-leadership on home days → higher engagement; self-punishment detrimental; no location moderation
patterer-coworking-creativity — Patterer et al. (ZfAO 2026): social support → radical creativity directly; → incremental creativity only for frequent coworkers
mikalef-ai-competencies-b2b — Mikalef et al. (JBR 2023): AI competency (infrastructure + spanning + proactive) → B2B marketing capabilities → performance; full mediation; 155 Nordic executives
nec-genai-negotiation — NEC Corp. (JOI 2025): GenAI overcomes game-theoretic context-blindness in procurement; natural-language interaction + forecasting; real inventory-reduction results
dong-brand-lapses — Dong, Veloutsou & Morgan-Thomas (JBR 2026): functional + moral brand lapses → 4-dimension negative engagement → anti-brand community formation
bunjak-collective-mindfulness — Bunjak et al. (JBR 2026): collective mindfulness paradox; amplifies isolation under low trust; boosts energy under low isolation; 3,644 employees, 92 German orgs
nigam-taylor-swift-institution — Nigam, Amis & Logue (OT 2025): individual-as-institution; person becomes focal point for role constellation + values; generalizes beyond celebrities
sadeghi-coopetition — Sadeghi et al. (JBR 2026): coopetition → absorptive capacity → performance; unlearning as upstream catalyst; 190 Iranian SMEs
octotools — Lu et al. / Stanford (2025): training-free agentic framework; tool cards + planner + executor; 9.3% gain over GPT-4o on 16 benchmarks [stub]
iso-standards — ISO 9001:2015 + ISO 45001:2018 risk and opportunity procedure template; risk matrix, appetite, treatment, escalation [reference/growing]
han-workplace-digitization — Han et al. (Frontiers Psych 2025): digitization → ↓ job demands + ↓ digital anxiety → ↑ wellbeing; JD-R dual-mediation; 382 Chinese enterprise workers
guan-multiturn-eval — Guan et al. / Microsoft (2025): survey of 276 papers; 5 evaluation dimensions × 4 method types for LLM multi-turn agents; LLM-as-judge correlated-error problem
dories-three-body-problem — Jeff Dories on identity, reality, and anthropocentrism in Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (2018)
norman-culture-utopian-processes — Joseph Norman’s PhD thesis: the Culture as six utopian processes; technologiade; “thinking the break” (Brunel, 2016)
borg-llm-meaning — Borg (2025): LLM outputs meaningful via derived intentionality; not assertions; lack original intentionality (Inquiry)
illusion-of-thinking — Shojaee et al. / Apple (2025): three complexity regimes; LRMs collapse at high complexity; fundamental scaling limit
jaeger-relevance-realization — Jaeger et al. (2024): agency and cognition are not computational; relevance realization is irreducibly biological (Frontiers Psychology)
altruism-and-wellbeing — Rhoads & Marsh (2023): bidirectional altruism–wellbeing link; moral elevation in observers; extraordinary altruism (World Happiness Report)
algorithmic-fairness — Mitchell et al. (2021): incompatible fairness definitions; hidden choices in every algorithm; statistical vs societal bias (Annual Review of Statistics)
kim-gricean-human-llm — Kim et al. (2025): Grice’s 4 maxims reinterpreted for LLMs; 9 design considerations across the 3-stage human-LLM interaction cycle (CHI EA ‘25)
borghoff-human-ai-systems — Borghoff et al. (2025): Luhmann’s systems theory applied to AI; MAS (ecosystem) vs Centaurian (organism) paradigms; Centaurus Faber (Frontiers)
tatasciore-automation-trust — Tatasciore & Loft (2025): transparency improves automated advice use; trust calibration feedback does not; cognitive miser hypothesis (IJHCI)
schroeder-feeling-known — Schroeder & Fishbach (2024): feeling known predicts relationship satisfaction more than felt knowing; 7 studies; support as mechanism (JESP)
berg-social-support-congruence-meetings — Berg et al.: congruence between support provided and received predicts meeting citizenship behavior; low-low congruence produces highest OCB; 303 participants, 53 teams
patterer-relatedness-ocb-depersonalisation — Patterer et al.: coworker support → connectedness/isolation → OCB and depersonalisation; needs-as-motives hypothesis; 3-wave longitudinal, N=1259

Book pages (non-fiction)

frankfurt-on-bullshit — Bullshit as indifference to truth (not falsehood); greater enemy of truth than lying; democratic and anti-realist sources
bullshit-foundation — DG’s 2022 Socratic presentation; context-dependence, emergent complexity, science as attending to physical constraints
dg-case-method — DG’s 2017 CASE framework: Conceptualize, Analyze, Synthesize, Evaluate; dialectical knife, framing as manipulation, data ≠ analysis
meadows-thinking-in-systems — Primer on systems thinking: elements, goals, delays, models
pirsig-zen-motorcycle — Quality, the analytic knife, and why destroying the factory’s rationality matters more than the factory
foucault-madness-civilization — Reason defines itself by exclusion; the Ship of Fools; madness as knowledge
duke-thinking-in-bets — Decision quality ≠ outcome quality; life as poker not chess; motivated reasoning and uncertainty
scanlon-in-this-economy — Markets as collective belief; vibes and consumer sentiment; theory-reality gap in economics
sapolsky-determined — Strict biological determinism; no free will; cumulative luck; implications for justice and punishment
sapolsky-behave — Biology of behavior: frontal cortex, testosterone myths, class and empathy, gender/culture, individualism as immigrant selection
dennett-intuition-pumps — Rapoport’s Rules; the chmess problem; intentional stance; savoring mistakes; compatibilism vs. Sapolsky
mcculloch-because-internet — Language as open source; emoji as gesture; dictionaries as record not rules; columbusing AAVE
hawkins-a-thousand-brains — Thousand Brains Theory; old brain vs. neocortex; viral false beliefs; genes vs. knowledge as civilizational drivers
schneier-data-and-goliath — Surveillance capitalism; the Panopticon effect; metadata is content; privacy enables dissent and social change
rosling-factfulness — Overdramatic worldview; negativity instinct; gap/binary instinct; possibilism; numbers need comparison
klaas-fluke — Complex systems are chaotic; invisible pivots; social science’s limits; efficiency vs. resilience; cooperation as the answer
smil-how-the-world-really-works — Four pillars (ammonia/steel/concrete/plastics); food is made of oil; decarbonization cannot be rapid
kahneman-thinking-fast-and-slow — System 1/2; WYSIATI; intuition as recognition; loss aversion; the remembering self’s tyranny
dweck-mindset — Fixed vs. growth mindset; praising intelligence backfires; becoming is better than being
thaler-misbehaving — Econs vs. Humans; anomalies as discovery; mental accounting; inside vs. outside view
harari-sapiens — Cognitive Revolution and shared fictions; Agricultural Revolution as fraud; Scientific Revolution as admission of ignorance
pinker-selected-works — Violence declined; blank slate myth; genes as conditional programs; Enlightenment progress; ideology as secular religion
graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything — Mythical origin stories; formal vs. substantive freedom; cities without hierarchy; how did we get stuck?
chang-mao-unknown-story — Absolute power through will-destruction; terror as primary engine; information control and the cult of personality
diamond-guns-germs-steel — Environmental determinism; geography not race; domesticable plants/animals as engines of empire; Anna Karenina Principle
hofstede-cultures-organizations — Power Distance, Individualism, Uncertainty Avoidance; culture as “software of the mind”; national culture resists change
frankl-search-for-meaning — Logotherapy; meaning as primary drive; freedom of attitude; tragic optimism; the existential vacuum
minton-philosophy-paradox-discovery — Paradox as pointer to hidden dimensions; discovery as conceptual clarification; Gödel and the boundary of the known
hofstadter-strange-loop — The “I” as self-reinforcing abstract pattern; the strange loop; intersubjectivity and partial selves in other brains
damasio-descartes-error — The embodied mind; somatic marker hypothesis; Phineas Gage; emotion as prerequisite for rational decision-making
sapolsky-why-zebras — Stress response evolved for 3 minutes, not 30 years; thinking yourself into illness; predictability and social support as buffers
van-de-wetering-empty-mirror — Zen not acquired but recognized; discipline as path to freedom; Mu; the Gateless Gate
leonard-way-of-aikido — Aiki: blending not clashing; maintaining center under pressure; the plateau as where mastery happens
weschler-seeing-is-forgetting — Genuine seeing requires abandoning naming; art as altered state of consciousness; conditional art
bulfinch-age-of-fable — Mythology as handmaid of literature; gods as deified humans; fate above the gods; metamorphosis as moral state
long-distance-langstrecke — Endurance as meditation; distance measured in erosion of shared memory; the horizon is a promise never kept
walsh-fallen-son — The ghost of the father; failure as slow crumbling not single event; forgiveness as self-gift
crucial-conversations — Safety as prerequisite for dialogue; the Pool of Shared Meaning; defensive attribution; Start with Heart
adler-how-to-speak — Listening as active intellectual pursuit; the ball-game catcher; syntopical conversation
kipp-how-to-speak — Ears as most profitable business tool; simplicity and replication; story as bridge to human need
most-beautiful-business — Business as living organism; ethical aesthetics; values as invisible architecture; legacy
annen-nlp-5 — Map is not territory; positive intention; modeling excellence; resistance reflects speaker inflexibility
austin-speech-acts — Speech as action; performatives; misfires; locution/illocution/perlocution
foucault-order-of-things — The episteme; Death of Man; to classify is to exercise power; discourse creates its objects
bryson-troublesome-words — Usage over rule; clarity as the only real rule; etymological fallacy; English as glorious mess
munroe-what-if — Scientific absurdism; math does not care if the question is ridiculous; Fermi problems; figuring out anything
burnett-idiot-brain — Brain as evolutionary bodge; memory as creative reconstruction; ego-centric bias; fight-or-flight glitch
eco-mouse-or-rat — Translation as negotiation; to say almost the same thing; the translator as double agent; intertextuality
taleb-black-swan — Black Swan: unpredictable, high-impact, rationalized post-hoc; Extremistan vs. Mediocristan; antifragility
sacks-musicophilia — Musical species; music animates Parkinson’s; musical hallucinations; rhythm as neurological medicine
crystal-how-language-works — Linguistic diversity; every language a unique window; grammaticalization; language death
lewis-lexical-approach — Language as chunks not rules; grammaticalized lexis; collocation as core native knowledge
liberman-pullum-far-from-madding-gerund — Grammar rules as myths; corpus linguistics; Grammar Snoot as class enforcer; language change is not decay
langacker-cognitive-grammar — Meaning is conceptualization; imagery in grammar; trajector/landmark; grammar as general cognition
nunberg-collected-works — Collected Works (Nunberg)
nunberg-going-nucular — Language as class war; lexical emblems signal political allegiance; Standard English as dialect with an army
structure-of-the-lexicon — Mental lexicon as multi-dimensional network; spreading activation; 60,000 words in 200ms; lexical integrity

Book pages (fiction)

camus-the-stranger — Benign indifference of the universe; absurdism; Meursault convicted for refusing to perform grief
boyle-talk-talk — Identity theft in the digital age; Dana Halter; identity as paper trail; justice grinds the victim
bukowski-post-office — Gutter realism; the soul-crushing ordinary job; society keeps you tired enough not to revolt
adams-hitchhikers-guide — Don’t Panic; the universe is more ridiculous than you think; 42; entropy as entertainment
lahiri-interpreter-of-maladies — Diaspora and the untranslatable malady; exile in one’s own home; polite silences and small cruelties
remarque-all-quiet — The Great Betrayal; animalization; the enemy who is also human; the Iron Youth
london-call-of-the-wild — The Dominant Primordial Beast; atavism; Law of Club and Fang; heritage stronger than training
homer-odyssey — Nostos; Odysseus as mind over strength; xenia as sacred hospitality; the hubris of man

Economics and behavior

economic-behavior — Econs vs. Humans; markets as collective belief; loss aversion; physical constraints beneath the psychology

Philosophy and technology

quality — Quality resists definition but is immediately recognized; the analytic knife; care as method (Pirsig)
technology-and-humans — Technology as fusion not exploitation; old brain vs. neocortex; energy constraints; genes vs. knowledge

Ethics and values

anthropocentrism — Human-centered worldview; speciesism and biocentrism; Liu’s critique via Three-Body Problem; Contact ethics in Banks
utopia-and-utopianism — Jameson’s “thinking the break”; postscarcity as precondition; the six utopian shifts; transhuman vs. posthuman; boredom and art in utopia

Epistemology and complexity

chaos-and-prediction — The Chaos Problem: more simulations don’t reduce uncertainty when initial conditions are exquisitely sensitive (Banks)
outside-context-problem — Encountering something so foreign to a civilization’s framework that existing responses are inadequate (Banks, Excession)
systems-thinking — Elements, interconnections, purpose; feedback loops, delays, and bounded rationality (Meadows)
probability — Decision quality vs. outcome quality; life as poker not chess; possibilism; numbers need comparison
uncertainty — Watts, Le Guin, Feynman: uncertainty as enabling condition, not defect; the dismay of ordered minds meeting disorder

Clippings

Device clippings from F:\documents\My Clippings.txt are stored in Clippings/ (one file per book). 66 files as of 2026-05-05. Single-word highlights and empty bookmarks were excluded.

Book pages

gibson-agency — The Jackpot (slow collapse), stubs vs. branches, the klept, Eunice as AI tulpa, CCAs
corey-the-expanse — Pleistocene amygdala; stories vs. facts; retrospective inevitability; war ends through reconciliation
corey-the-captives-war-the-faith-of-beasts — The Captive’s War: minds are something bodies do (non-dualism)

Author pages

vonnegut-quotes — Selected quotes organized by theme: identity, kindness, art, dark acceptance, American critique

Book stubs (quotes ingestion — 2026-05-07)

allen-getting-things-done — Getting Things Done Workbook (Allen)
almossawi-illustrated-book-bad — An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (Almossawi)
banks-transition — Transition (Banks)
batuman-idiot — The Idiot (Batuman)
bauer-english-word-formation — English Word-Formation (Bauer)
bear-ancestral-night — Ancestral Night (Bear)
bear-forge-god — The Forge of God (Bear)
bennett-fck-feelings — Fck Feelings* (Bennett)
burgess-mouthful-air — A Mouthful of Air (Burgess)
burke-semiosis — Semiosis (Burke)
butler-lilith-s-brood — Lilith’s Brood (Butler)
butler-bowdon-50-psychology-classics — 50 Psychology Classics (Butler-Bowdon)
cameron-artifact-space — Artifact Space (Cameron)
chambers-closed-common-orbit — A Closed and Common Orbit (Chambers)
cherryh-downbelow-station — Downbelow Station (Cherryh)
chomsky-power-terror — Power and Terror (Chomsky)
clowes-patience — Patience (Clowes)
comfort-mindful-international-manager — The Mindful International Manager (Comfort)
corey-caliban-s-war — Caliban’s War (Corey)
corey-cibola-burn — Cibola Burn (Corey)
corey-leviathan-wakes — Leviathan Wakes (Corey)
cowen-average-over — Average Is Over (Cowen)
crawford-shop-class-as — Shop Class as Soulcraft (Crawford)
critchlow-science-fate — The Science of Fate (Critchlow)
crouch-recursion — Recursion (Crouch)
damasio-looking-spinoza — Looking for Spinoza (Damasio)
davis-gifts-dead-man — Gifts of a Dead Man (Davis)
delany-jewel-hinged-jaw — The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (Delany)
dewes-last-watch — The Last Watch (Dewes)
diaz-brief-wondrous-life — The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz)
dick-deus-irae — Deus Irae (Dick & Zelazny)
diewald-duden-fit-fur — Duden: Fit für das Bachelorstudium (Diewald)
dignan-brave-new-work — Brave New Work (Dignan)
dignen-communication-international-business — Communication for International Business (Dignen)
dochy-theories-workplace-learning — Theories of Workplace Learning (Dochy et al.)
eban-bottle-lies — Bottle of Lies (Eban)
egan-perihelion-summer — Perihelion Summer (Egan)
eggers-circle — The Circle (Eggers)
etchells-endland — Endland (Etchells)
faulkner-sound-fury — The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
fernald-standard-book-synonyms — Standard Book of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions (Fernald)
ferris-my-favorite-thing — My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Ferris)
fletcher-wie-man-deutscher — Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten (Fletcher et al.)
fowler-we-all-completely — We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Fowler)
gaiman-norse-mythology — Norse Mythology (Gaiman)
gaiman-sandman-book-one — Sandman: Book One (Gaiman)
gaiman-ocean-end-lane — The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman)
garner-chicago-guide-grammar — Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation (Garner)
ghisini-communicating-american-way — Communicating the American Way (Ghisini)
ghosh-sea-poppies — Sea of Poppies (Ghosh)
gibson-distrust-that-particular — Distrust That Particular Flavor (Gibson)
gibson-peripheral — The Peripheral (Gibson)
grant-give-take-listed
grant-original-thinkers-ted — The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers (Grant, TED 2016) — Give and Take (Listed as “PhD-Give and Take”) (Grant)
greene-quiet-american — The Quiet American (Greene)
grose-tasks-teams — Tasks and Teams (Große)
gurri-revolt-public — The Revolt of the Public (Gurri)
haldeman-forever-war — The Forever War (Haldeman)
hamilton-evolutionary-void — Evolutionary Void (Hamilton)
hamilton-exodus-archimedes-engine — Exodus: The Archimedes Engine (Hamilton)
hamilton-neutronium-alchemist — Neutronium Alchemist (Hamilton)
hamilton-reality-dysfunction — Reality Dysfunction (Hamilton)
hamilton-saints-salvation — Saints of Salvation (Hamilton)
harari-nexus — Nexus (Harari)
harley-psychology-language — The Psychology of Language (Harley)
harrison-sunken-land-begins — The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Harrison)
heath-made-stick — Made to Stick (Heath)
herbert-chapterhouse-dune — Chapterhouse: Dune (Herbert)
hicok-words-empty-words — Words for Empty and Words for Full (Hicok)
hughes-testing-language-teachers — Testing for Language Teachers (Hughes)
iezzi-idea-writers — The Idea Writers (Iezzi)
ishiguro-pale-view-hills — A Pale View of Hills (Ishiguro)
ishiguro-klara-sun — Klara and the Sun (Ishiguro)
jackendoff-foundations-language — Foundations of Language (Jackendoff)
jarchl-konigsbrucke — Die Königsbrücke (Jarchl)
jemisin-fifth-season — The Fifth Season (Jemisin)
jodorowsky-incal-vol-1 — The Incal: Vol 1 (Jodorowsky)
johnson-space-between-worlds — The Space Between Worlds (Johnson)
katakis-thousand-shards-glass — Thousand Shards of Glass (Katakis)
kehlmann-ich-und-kaminski — Ich und Kaminski (Kehlmann)
kress-after-fall-before — After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall (Kress)
kukushkin-one-hand-clapping — One Hand Clapping (Kukushkin)
kunzru-gods-without-men — Gods Without Men (Kunzru)
kuran-private-truths-public — Private Truths, Public Lies (Kuran)
kunsken-quantum-magician — The Quantum Magician (Künsken)
lally-eggshells — Eggshells (Lally)
leckie-ancillary-justice — Ancillary Justice (Leckie)
leo-railroad-train-heaven — Railroad Train to Heaven (Leo)
lewis-linguistics — Linguistics (Lewis)
lewis-undoing-project — The Undoing Project (Lewis)
lightbown-languages-learned — How Languages Are Learned (Lightbown & Spada)
liu-death-s-end — Death’s End (Liu)
liu-three-body-problem — The Three-Body Problem (Liu)
luoma-assessing-speaking — Assessing Speaking (Luoma)
macleod-beyond-light-horizon — Beyond the Light Horizon (MacLeod)
macleod-learning-world — Learning the World (MacLeod)
mahal-work-gets-done — How Work Gets Done (Mahal)
maister-trusted-advisor — The Trusted Advisor (Maister)
marquez-lider — Lider (Marquez)
martine-desolation-called-peace — A Desolation Called Peace (Martine)
mayers-story-english-language — The Story of the English Language (Mayers)
mcauley-war-maps — War of the Maps (McAuley)
mcdonald-ares-express — Ares Express (McDonald)
mcdonald-cyberabad-days — Cyberabad Days (McDonald)
mcdonald-desolation-road — Desolation Road (McDonald)
mcdonald-luna-new-moon — Luna: New Moon (McDonald)
mcdonald-river-gods — River of Gods (McDonald)
mcwhorter-power-babel — The Power of Babel (McWhorter)
meyer-renschhausen-unter-dem-mull — Unter dem Müll liegt der Acker (Meyer-Renschhausen)
miller-canticle-leibowitz — A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
mishra-age-anger — Age of Anger (Mishra)
mitchell-cloud-atlas — Cloud Atlas (Mitchell)
moon-speed-dark — The Speed of Dark (Moon)
morris-enceladus-hard-science — Enceladus (Hard Science Fiction) (Morris)
morris-proxima-rising — Proxima Rising (Morris)
murakami-kafka-shore — Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)
muller-atemschaukel-hunger-angel — Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel) (Müller)
naam-nexus — Nexus (Naam)
nasar-grand-pursuit — Grand Pursuit (Nasar)
neeley-language-global-success — The Language of Global Success (Neeley)
nepo-way-under-way — The Way Under the Way (Nepo)
newitz-autonomous — Autonomous (Newitz)
newitz-terraformers — Terraformers (Newitz)
newman-planetfall — Planetfall (Newman)
nunberg-way-we-talk — The Way We Talk Now (Nunberg)
nunberg-years-talking-dangerously — The Years of Talking Dangerously (Nunberg)
okeefe-blighted-stars — Blighted Stars (O’Keefe)
okeefe-bound-worlds — Bound Worlds (O’Keefe)
okeefe-catalyst-gate-protectorate — Catalyst Gate (The Protectorate) (O’Keefe)
okeefe-first-omega — First Omega (O’Keefe)
okeefe-collected-works — Collected Works (O’Keefe)
okorafor-binti — Binti (Okorafor)
okorafor-just-out-jupiter — Just Out of Jupiter’s Reach (Okorafor)
orrell-introducing-economics-graphic — Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide (Orrell)
paolini-fractal-noise — Fractal Noise (Paolini)
paolini-sleep-sea-stars — To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Paolini)
patterson-crucial-conversations — Crucial Conversations (Patterson)
pearl-book-why — The Book of Why (Pearl)
pentland-social-physics — Social Physics (Pentland)
peynado-time-s-agent — Time’s Agent (Peynado)
pinker-enlightenment-now — Enlightenment Now (Pinker)
pinker-blank-slate — The Blank Slate (Pinker)
pinker-language-instinct — The Language Instinct (Pinker)
pinker-stuff-thought — The Stuff of Thought (Pinker)
pinker-words-rules — Words and Rules (Pinker)
pitagorsky-zen-approach-project — Zen Approach™ to Project Management (Pitagorsky)
pollan-defence-food — In Defence of Food (Pollan)
powell-descendant-machine — Descendant Machine (Powell)
powell-embers-war — Embers of War (Powell)
powell-fleet-knives — Fleet of Knives (Powell)
powell-collected-works — Collected Works (Powell)
powers-overstory — The Overstory (Powers)
pschyrembel-klinisches-worterbuch-254th — Klinisches Wörterbuch (254th Edition) (Pschyrembel)
qiufan-waste-tide — Waste Tide (Qiufan)
qntm-there-no-antimemetics — There Is No Antimemetics Division (qntm)
renault-king-must-die — The King Must Die (Renault)
reynolds-absolution-gap — Absolution Gap (Reynolds)
reynolds-blue-remembered-earth — Blue Remembered Earth (Reynolds)
reynolds-diamond-dogs-turquoise — Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Reynolds)
reynolds-steel-breeze — On the Steel Breeze (Reynolds)
reynolds-poseidon-s-wake — Poseidon’s Wake (Reynolds)
reynolds-redemption-ark — Redemption Ark (Reynolds)
reynolds-medusa-chronicles — The Medusa Chronicles (Reynolds & Baxter)
roach-english-phonetics-phonology — English Phonetics and Phonology (Roach)
roads-composing-electronic-music — Composing Electronic Music (Roads)
robbins-skinny-legs-all — Skinny Legs and All (Robbins)
robinson-aurora — Aurora (Robinson)
rosenberg-nonviolent-communication — Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg)
safire-language — On Language (Safire)
saller-subversive-copy-editor — The Subversive Copy Editor (Saller)
samatar-practice-horizon-chain — The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (Samatar)
sapolsky-trouble-with-testosterone — The Trouble with Testosterone (Sapolsky)
saunders-tenth-december — Tenth of December (Saunders)
scalzi-collected-works — Collected Works (Scalzi)
scalzi-collapsing-empire — The Collapsing Empire (Scalzi)
scalzi-end-all-things — The End of All Things (Scalzi)
scalzi-last-colony — The Last Colony (Scalzi)
scalzi-shattering-peace-note — The Shattering Peace (Note: Likely referring to The Ghost Brigades or The Consuming Fire in the context of your list) (Scalzi)
schirach-strafe-punishment — Strafe (Punishment) (Schirach)
schneier-liars-outliers — Liars and Outliers (Schneier)
shakespeare-oxford-shakespeare-complete — Oxford Shakespeare (The Complete Works) (Shakespeare)
shoemaker-today-i-am — Today I Am Carey (Shoemaker)
sibbet-visual-meetings — Visual Meetings (Sibbet)
siedel-negotiating-success — Negotiating for Success (Siedel)
simmons-hyperion — Hyperion (Simmons)
smil-energy-beginner-s — Energy: A Beginner’s Guide (Smil)
smith-just-kids — Just Kids (Smith)
spencer-morphological-theory — Morphological Theory (Spencer)
stainton-fine-art-copyediting — The Fine Art of Copyediting (Stainton)
stephenson-fall-dodge-hell — Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Stephenson)
stephenson-seveneves — Seveneves (Stephenson)
stephenson-collected-works — Collected Works (Stephenson)
stephenson-diamond-age — The Diamond Age (Stephenson)
stephenson-mongoliad — The Mongoliad (Stephenson et al.)
sterling-collected-works — Collected Works (Sterling)
sterling-ascendancies — Ascendancies (Sterling)
sterling-epic-struggle-internet — The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things (Sterling)
sterling-zenith-angle — Zenith Angle (Sterling)
stross-neptune-s-brood — Neptune’s Brood (Stross)
tchaikovsky-children-memory-likely — Children of Memory (Likely “Children of Strife”/Memory) (Tchaikovsky)
tutuola-my-life-bush — My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Tutuola)
vandermeer-annihilation — Annihilation (VanderMeer)
vandermeer-authority — Authority (VanderMeer)
vinge-fire-upon-deep — A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought) (Vinge)
vonnegut-slapstick — Slapstick (Vonnegut)
veliz-power-of-prediction-ted — Beware the Power of Prediction (Véliz, TED 2026)
waddingham-new-hart-s — New Hart’s Rules (Waddingham)
wallace-infinite-jest — Infinite Jest (Wallace)
watts-echopraxia — Echopraxia (Watts)
weir-artemis — Artemis (Weir)
weir-project-hail-mary — Project Hail Mary (Weir)
wellington-last-astronaut — The Last Astronaut (Wellington)
wells-all-systems-red — All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) (Wells)
wells-artificial-condition-murderbot — Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries) (Wells)
wilson-chronoliths — The Chronoliths (Wilson)
wiseman-59-seconds — 59 Seconds (Wiseman)
womack-random-acts-senseless — Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Womack)
yang-boy-named-isamu — A Boy Named Isamu (Yang)
yates-expect-unexpected — How to Expect the Unexpected (Yates)
yu-live-safely-science — How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Yu)

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