From Everything Burns:
For whatever reason (say an opressive regime has taken over your country), you find that you have to cut and run, leaving most everything behind to live on the lam for a while. After packing all the essentials (You packed a flashlight, right? Double check), you find that you have room for 7 or 8 books. You have 5 minutes to select the books to take.
They ask that you take a photo of your choices:
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- My favorite novel, and it’s about exile.
- Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (Northern Lights in the UK)
- This one’s about someone fleeing from bad people too, so I guess it’s thematic.
- Strunk and White, The Elements of Style
- One of the “useful” books I’d pack.
- Alfred Bester, Tiger! Tiger! (The Stars My Destination in the US)
- It’s great.
- London A-Z
- If I’m going to be an exile, I’ll be an exile in London.
- Ken MacLeod, The Star Fraction
- One of my favorite political SF novels.
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Why Robinson over Stegner? Because Robinson didn’t steal his best book from someone’s memoirs.
- Wall, Christiansen & Schwartz, Programming Perl
- My PowerBook (and you better believe it’s coming with me) has plenty of Perl docs on it, but if I’ve got to start from scratch, I want paper docs.
