Books (Optional)
Writing Technique
- Elements of Style, William Strunk and E. B. White
Astronomical and Physical Context
- The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence Krauss
Evolution
- The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
(available as free ebook and from the UT library system)
- The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin
(available as free ebook and from the UT library system)
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
(available electronically from the UT library system)
- Social Conquest of Earth, E. O. Wilson
(available as audiobook from UT library)
- The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origin of Sex, John A. Long
- Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer
- The 10,000 Year Explosion : How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, Gregory Cochran
(available electronically from UT library)
- Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
Human Population
- The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich
Computers
Robots
Current Status and Near Future
- The Next 100 years, George Friedman
- Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, Michio Kaku
- The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, Michio Kaku
- The Human Age: the World Shaped by Us, Diane Ackerman
- The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein
Space Travel
Future
- Our Final Hour, Martin Rees
- From Here to Infinity, Martin Rees
- The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
- A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe, Freeman Dyson
- X-Events: The Collapse of Everything, John Casti
- Technophobia: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology, Daniel Dinello
Consciousness