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1. The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick, Simon & Schuster

2. Out of Control by Kevin Kelly, Addison Wesley

3. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, Simon & Schuster

4. Conversations with Neil’s Brain by William Calvin, Addison Wesley

5. Metapatterns by Tyler Volk, Columbia University Press

6. Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell, Pocket Books

7. Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, Random House

8. Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, Simon & Schuster

9. The Quantum Theory of Fields by Steven Weinberg, Cambridge University Press

10. Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll, Bantam

San Francisco lives up to its reputation of being ahead of the rest of the world. For example, have you heard of Conversations with Neil’s Brain? Already No 4, it reveals the intricacy of the human mind through the experiences of Neil before, during and after neurosurgery to end his epileptic seizures. Reviewed here this autumn.

List prepared in collaboration with Cody’s Books, San Francisco Fax: 001 510 841 6185