"Reality is a crutch for people who can't deal with science fiction."

In the last couple years I haven't
had the time or focus to read as much
as I would have liked, but the following items
made it through my consciousness.

J.G. Ballard:
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Day of Creation
War Fever

Richard Bandler:
Using Your Brain For a Change
Time for a Change
The Adventures of Anybody
Frogs into Princes (with John Grinder)
Trance-formations (with John Grinder)

Gregory Bateson:
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
(Livens up half way through when the discussion
turns more toward logical levels.
Otherwise a bit more accessible than
Steps to an Ecology of Mind.)

Hakim Bey:
T.A.Z., The Temporary Autonomous Zone,
Ontological Anarchy, and Poetic Terrorism
(Wild and spectacular poems. I enjoyed the first two
collections best. The
entire text of T.A.Z. is now on-line.)

William S. Burroughs:
Cities of the Red Night
The Cat Inside
The Yage Letters (with Allen Ginsburg)
Ghost of Chance
Roosevelt After Inauguration and other Atrocities
The Job (Interviews and rare texts)
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays.
Painting and Guns
My Education
The Wild Boys
Naked Lunch + Interzone
Tornado Alley + Queer

Noam Chomsky:
Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures

Douglas Coupland:
Generation X
Shampoo Planet

Steven R. Covey:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Principle Centered Leadership
First Things First

Gerald Edelman:
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire

Buckminster Fuller:
On Education

Jack Keroac:
Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Stephen Kosslyn:
Image and Brain:
The Resolution of the Imagery Debate
Kosslyn presents a complex theory
of imagery subsystems based on a great deal of
empirical evidence. His main thesis is that imagery and
perception are neurologically intertwined,
that corresponding functions of each
process rely on similar brain regions.
If you have the patience and the
inclination, this book is an exceptional
summary of some of the most fascinating
research in cognitive science.

Paul Krassner:
Tales of Tongue Fu

Timothy Leary:
Chaos and Cyberculture - I admired Leary's boundless optimism.
Flashbacks (perhaps Timothy's best written work.
An exciting, life-changing biography. Throughout
this book I was most struck by Tim's ability to
glamorize meta-changes, and his ability to
find constructive purposes in the most dificult situations,
including both his political exile in Europe and his 7 year
jail term. Most highly recommended.)

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore:
War and Peace in the Global Village
The Medium is the Massage
Counter-Blast
(How amazing that in 1968 Marshall McLuhan would get so much right.
He predicted multimedia, networking, telecommuting, edutainment,
and had a great understanding of the psychology of modern life.
While the format seems quaint by today’s standards,
the text is still as radical as it was when first published.)

Barry Miles:
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible
(Mediocre biography of a amazing writer,
and tremendously important historic precursor
to non-linear media and culture.)

Ted Morgan:
Literary Outlaw: A life and Times of William S. Burroughs.
(A beautifully well written biography
which details Burroughs life and work,
as well his interaction with the other beat writers.
{Beware, it's 600+ pages!})

Camille Paglia:
Vamps and Tramps

Robert M. Pirsig:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Excellent)
Lila (Even better.)

Judith A. Provost, Ed. D:
A Casebook: Applications of the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator in Counseling

Anthony Robbins:
Awaken the Giant Within
Unlimited Power

Rudy Rucker:
Transreal! (reprints of all of Rucker's short stories
published in various magazines.
Spectacular, depressing, and disappointingly out of print.)

Douglas Rushkoff:
Media Virus (Absolutely excellent.)

B.F. Skinner:
Waldon Two

Hunter S. Thompson:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Generation of Swine
Songs of the Doomed

Alvin Toffler:
Future Shock

Leo Tolstoi:
Resurrection

Robert Anton Wilson:
Quantom Psychology
Prometheus Rising (Absolutely Excellent)
Right Where You Are Sitting Now
The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy
(This book changed my life! (Nuff Said!))

Semiotext(e) SF: Edited by Robert Anton Wilson,
Peter Lamporn Wilson, and Rudy Rucker
(An excellent collection of
cyberpunk science fiction, but presently out of print.)

At the moment I am reading:
...far too many research articles.

Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
No More Secondhand God - Buckminster Fuller
Utopia or Oblivion - Buckminster Fuller