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- **Masters of Doom** (Kushner, 2003): Another nice book for [Doom](doom.md) fans, this time not really technical but rather just retelling the story of the game's development -- quite comfy, a lot if interesting trivia.
- **[The Jargon File](jargon_file.md)** (1975...): [Hacker culture](hacking.md) dictionary, a lot of wisdom, inside jokes, and things related to oldschool hacking.
- **Rebel Code** (Moody, 2001): A bit of a mainstream view at the whole "[open source](open_source.md)" history -- though it's a small brain business view which we have to keep in mind at all times, it's a nice introduction to the whole FOSS world for the newcomers, as the book covers most of the relevant projects and [people](people.md).
- **Starting Forth** (Leo Brodie, 1981): Good book to learn [Forth](forth.md).
- **The Chrysalids** (John Wyndham, 1955): Apocalyptic sci-fi about a middle-age-like deeply religious dystopia after a nuclear war, it's among the author's best works.
- **The Country of the Blind** by H. G. Wells (1911): Very nice story, also in the public domain and digitized online, easily accessible. Though not related to technology, it's a great food for thought as it entertains an idea of a population of people who are completely blind which has interesting implications for their lives, and furthermore it shows that if you place someone too competent in a group of retards, they won't recognize his competence, in fact they'll see him as someone yet more retarded than they are themselves.
- **The Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech**: Nice small database of all the old consoles/computers (SNES, Amiga, C64, ...), each one with high quality photos, short summary, specs and notable games. There is not much text, it's more like tl;drs of the most important stuff, it's an ideal overview of the old computers for a newcomers but can also serve as a quick reference to anyone.