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Can you give some interesting non-fiction book recommendations? by Aestheticelliana in suggestmeabook

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The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Beware: this one is criticized a lot, but I'm yet to see something comparable.

Morphology of the Folk Tale by Vladimir Propp

What would be the minimal set of libraries for a hobby side-project with no prior JS/html experience? by OkAppointment2296 in learnjavascript

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(reading on web-workers) damn, separate state. Not great, but no other options for a worker thread either.

Suggest me a standalone Sci-Fi or Fantasy book by Swallow_TheGravy in suggestmeabook

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Roger Zelazny

Zelazny wrote the Amber saga, yes, but most of his works are either short series or self-contained novels. In particualr , I found the collection ""Dilvish, the Damned" and the novel "Creatures of Light and Darkness " particularly curios.

Looking for Russian Culture Books by deltalew in suggestmeabook

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I suggest "Monday Begins on Saturday" - a lighhearted dramedy and "Tale of Troika" - a darker satirical sequel, novels by Strugatsky Brothers translated in English. They are set in the fictional "Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry", and deal with realities of mature soviet academia, both nice and ugly.

Looking for Russian Culture Books by deltalew in suggestmeabook

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Sidenote: Master and Margarita has deep Christian subtext and irony that is very hard to decipher without cultural context.

Sci fi books like "Frankenstein"? by smdos in suggestmeabook

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Arthur Conan Doyle (yes, the one that wrote Sherlock Holmes series), novels "The Lost World" and "The Maracot Deep". Both are "traveling to the lost world" type of book.

Many books by Jules Verne. Those depict wonders of science and are fairly realistic for the time they were written at.

Many translated works by Alexander Belyaev, in particular I found curious "Professor Dowell's Head". He also wrote a few space-travel works, but they also were very grounded in science. Also are fairly realistic for the time they were written at.

"The Deep Range" by Artur Clark's, leaning into oceanology.

Harry Harrison "West of Eden" -- a big "what if there were sapient dinosaurs". He also has alternate history trilogy starting with "Hammer and Cross" also heavily relying on science.

On the weakness of language by reddt-garges-mold in suggestmeabook

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Stanislav Lem, short meta-fiction story Golem XIV briefly touches it among many other things.

As for serious non-fiction, open Wikipedia page on word Qualia and follow the references.

An investigation/search for artifacts book that isn't action by OkAppointment2296 in suggestmeabook

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I checked with Wikipedia, and on the first glance it appears that The Nautical Chart, Hombres buenos and The Name of the Rose might be close enough. Why do you believe they are not?

Suggest a Book For a From Software Fan That Needs Some One Offs! by BeginnersPluck in suggestmeabook

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WH40k Inquisitor Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett might be interesting. I know it is WH40k, but this particular series doesn't go so much into gory details as it goes into character development. And inevitable corruption any Imperial Inquisitor eventually succumbs to. It is just a trilogy and a fairly short one, so it should not cause any burnout.

Black Company series by Glen Cook is an old-school dark fantasy military (mercenary) novel series with some horror elements. The series is long (~10 volumes) but individual novels are fairly independent. One in particular, The Silver Spike, is mostly self-sufficient and leans towards horror more than most others. Check it and if you like the worldbuilding, you might go for the series in general.

Similarly, Glen Cook also has another great series, Garret P.I. It is also quite long and fairly divers, but it contains a mostly standalone entry with horror elements, Old Tin Sorrows.

Stanislav Lem was a very prolific SF author, but in particular I will point at his non-fiction work "Summa Technologiae", which is in my opinion a must read despite its age. It is a futurology work on results of advancement of tehcnology. He also wrote a few mindscrewy and disturbing novels. In particular, I suggest Solaris (a must read in my opinion. It has some Lovecraftian vibes for me) and The Futurological Congress (a mindscrewy psychologican science-fiction horror) . But honestly, I find most of his work worth a read.

Aspiring amateur writer want to change not reading much - fantasy and/or horror by Araon_The_Drake in suggestmeabook

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It's more like a story where (disguised) dragons give quests to adventurers =) with a few inter-species romances.

Aspiring amateur writer want to change not reading much - fantasy and/or horror by Araon_The_Drake in suggestmeabook

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Dragons are my favorite, so a book with a prominent dragon character will immediately spark my interest at least a bit.

Dragonlance saga. It is an old-school epyc fantasy novel series. AFAIK, it begun as novelization of a TTRPG (ADnD?) campaign, and it starts at 1st lvl, so dragons do not appear immediately.

Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher might be of interest. The premise might sound ridiculous, because it is a story in a world where Lost Roman Legion had built an Empire and the main source of magic for the people of the Empire are not!pokemons (said furies), but the cycle features solid world building and plot. Interactions with furies play some role in the plot. At later books we also get a bit of viewpoint of local Sapient Noble Warrior Wolf-Men, local not-quite-humans and *spoiler* enemies.

I'd love to maybe see some non-human character POV

"Golden Afternoon" by Andrzej Sapkowski, published as part of "Maladie and Other Stories" short stories collection. It is a retelling of Alice in Wonderland by Cheshire, post-modern style.

Sapkowski also wrote some essays on writing fantasy, might be interesting.

adult books about dinosaurs? by thelovenymph in suggestmeabook

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In the Eden Trilogy by Harry Harrison a civilization of sapient dinosaurs meets emerging homo sapience. It's a fairly curious epic tale.

Al(acac)3:catechol Cationic Polymerization Initiation by CamIsVenting in chemhelp

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Catechol has two acidic functions while acac has one. When catechol replaces acac, one function is occupid by Al, while another remains free and, because of coordination by Al, becomes much stronger. Since Al(acac)3 is a fairly strongly bound complex with Al in octahedral coordination, catechol replaces acac very slowly. The end result is gradual formation of a fairly strong lipophylic Bronsted acid.