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Open thread for December 24-31, 2013

by NancyLebovitz

24th Dec 2013

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protest_boy12y40

Does anyone have any recommended "didactic fiction"? Here are a couple of examples:

1) Lauren Ipsum (http://www.amazon.com/Lauren-Ipsum-Carlos-Bueno/dp/1461178185) 2) HPMoR

jswan12y00

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein writes philosophical fiction. She is my favorite contemporary literary fiction author. Her biographies of Gödel and Spinoza are also brilliant.

1FiftyTwo12y

I remember enjoying the "Uncle Albert" series of children's books on physics.

0NancyLebovitz12y

The Lost Kafoozalum-- sf which has some utopian education that is a surprisingly good introduction to rationality. Stop and think, consider consequences, utilitarianism, there's no guarantee of success....