===== books2read =====
  * "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
  * Charles Stross: "The Atrocity Archives", "The Jennifer Morgue" (Dilbert-meets-Lovecraft-meets-Bond content)
  * Charles Stross: "Halting State"
  * Strunk & White: "The Elements of Style", on writingstyle
  * Weizenbaum: on human/computer relation
  * Nihon Keizai Shinposha: "Manga Nihon Keizai Zeminaru", Manga version (ISBN-13: 978-4532087579)
  * van Wolferen: "The Enigma of Japanese Power" (ISBN-13: 978-0679728023)
  * Ruth Benedict: "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" (ISBN-13: 978-0618619597)
  * John W. Dower: "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II" (ISBN-13: 978-0393320275)
  * Michael Fitzgerald: Learning Ruby. 23$, (ISBN-13: 978-0596529864)
  * Peter Cooper: Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, 34$, (ISBN-13: 978-1590597668)
  * John Benson: Eyewitness Travel Guide. Japan, 15€, ISBN-13: 978-1405339131
  * Jan Dodd: The Rough Guide to Japan 4, 15€, ISBN-13: 978-1843539193
  * GEO Special 6/2006: Japan, 8€, ISBN-13: 978-3570197462
  * Lothar Lochmaier: Die Bank sind wir / Chancen und Perspektiven von Social Banking, 15.90€, ISBN 978-3-936931-64-8
  * Karsen Kruschel: deutsches scifi, i.e. "VILM 01. Der Regenplanet"
  * Daniel Suarez: Daemon / Darknet
  * scifi: Sheckley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sheckley dramocles is funny, but immortality, Inc and Journey Beyond Tomorrow (also called hourney of joenes) are musts
  * scifi: get thee some E.E. Doc Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_Steel_Rat
  * scifi: Consider Phlebas, byt Iain M. Banks
  * John Niven: Coma
  * よしもとばなな
  * Neal Stephenson: Reamde
    * more action: Neal Asher
    * more dark: Alaister Reynolds or Richard Morgan
  * on job seeking: "What Color is Your Parachute?" by Richard Bolles
  * "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor
  * "Legion (Lazarus War #2)" by Jamie Sawyer
  * "Artefact (Lazarus War #1)" by Jamie Sawyer
  * "The Ship Who Sang (Brainship #1)" by Anne McCaffrey 
  * "Retaliation (Slingshot #2)" by Tobias Klausmann 
  * "A Girl in Time" by John Birmingham
  * "Leviathan Wakes" by James S A Corey (its a whole series)
  * "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made" by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell 
===== book order =====
  * "Prador Moon: A Novel of the Polity", Neal Asher, 320p, ISBN-10: 1597801208, ISBN-13: 978-1597801201
  * "The Jennifer Morgue", Charles Stross, 416p, ISBN-10: 0441018149, ISBN-13: 978-0441018147
  * "Der Unbesiegbare", Stanislaw Lem, 240p, ISBN-10: 3518389599, ISBN-13: 978-3518389591
  * "Terminal World", Alaister Reynolds, 490p, ISBN-10: 0575088508, ISBN-13: 978-0575088504
  * "The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac 2)", Neal Asher, 662p, ISBN-10: 0330512560, ISBN-13: 978-0330512565
  * "Prefect (GollanczF.)", Alastair Reynolds, 502p, ISBN-10: 0575082186, ISBN-13: 978-0575082182
  * "Shadow of the Scorpion", Neal Asher, 256p, ISBN-10: 1597801542, ISBN-13: 978-1597801546
  * "Eine Minute der Menschheit", Stanislaw Lem, 112p, ISBN-10: 3518374559, ISBN-13: 978-3518374559
  * "The Bible as History", Werner Keller, 496p, ISBN-10: 0553279432, ISBN-13: 978-0553279436