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Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey

John Barnett and Roald Hoffman

5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Serhii Plokhy, Ralph Lister, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

507 Mechanical Movements

Henry T. Brown

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

Jeremy Narby

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Scott Galloway, Jonathan Todd Ross, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Stone

William Hall

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

John Yudkin and Robert H. Lustig

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Jungle: A Photicular Book

Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard

4.9 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Signals and Systems

Alan Oppenheim, Alan Willsky, et al.

4.1 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (Farm Animal Photography Book)

Traer Scott

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

John Rumble

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World

Josh Tickell and Terry Tamminen

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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boyteronFeb 19, 2018

It certainly is not dead. One example I can think of that uses it as an art style for a game is Stone Story RPG https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=42354.0 which has some of the prettiest ASCII art I have ever seen.

thegeekpirateonJan 11, 2020

Just to add on to the "not a roguelike" list (it's an adventure game),
Stone Story RPG (https://store.steampowered.com/app/603390/Stone_Story_RPG/).

OWazonSep 9, 2011

Good job on mentioning Eon. I just finished it a few days ago and I liked it quite a bit. I bought it a long time ago as part of Gollancz's space opera series. The whole series features awesome cover designs by Sanda Zahirovic http://bookcoverarchive.com/sanda_zahirovic

I highly recommend reading Tau Zero by Poul Anderson and Stone by Adam Roberts.

barbsonJuly 31, 2016

I'd recommend Pandemic. It's a little bit different to most games in that it's a co-op game, but it's a lot of fun and I feel challenges most people's perceptions on how board games should be.
Stone Age is a fairly basic but fun introduction to worker placement games.
Puerto Rico is fairly simple but is quite satisfying.

Basically I've found that it's good to play a variety of different board game types to see what you personally enjoy.

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