Elon Musk

Musk's life from South Africa and PayPal to running SpaceX and Tesla at once.

Two years shadowing Musk, across SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and the buying of Twitter.

Tesla from its founding disputes through the Model 3 production crisis to 2020.

How Elon Musk's takeover wrecked Twitter.

Sceptical account of Tesla's manufacturing and safety claims.

Fast narrative of the takeover and the layoffs.

A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.

A space opera of a war between the Culture, a machine-run utopia, and its enemies.

A thriller about a computer program that runs on after its creator's death.

A novel of a feudal space empire fighting over a desert planet and its spice.

A novel: a mathematician foresees an empire's fall and plans to shorten the dark age.

A novel of schoolboys stranded on an island whose self-rule collapses into violence.

A Culture novel: a woman marked for her family's shame, and a war with death itself.

An officer must find a 9,000-year-old man to clear her name as her people go Sublime.

A novel of the quest to destroy a ring of power that corrupts all who use it.

Franklin's life as printer, scientist, diplomat and founder.

Howard Hughes as aviator, film producer and Las Vegas hotel owner, and his decline.

Leonardo's life read through his notebooks, where art and science were one pursuit.

Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.

A printer's rise in colonial America and his chart for practising thirteen virtues.

Insider history of liquid rocket propellant development

How a few scientists with ties to industry ran campaigns to deny settled science.

Why structures hold up or fail: tension, compression, shear and fracture explained.

From the origin of the universe through life and consciousness to what it all means.

Selection acts on genes; bodies are vehicles that genes build to copy themselves.

The textbook on deep learning: how machines learn layered concepts from data.

Why AI must be redesigned from the ground up to keep superhuman machines in check.

How AI could change crime, war, justice, jobs and what it means to be human.

Why machines smarter than humans pose a control problem to solve before they arrive.

How Napoleon's rise, wars and fall carried Europe from Enlightenment to democracy.

How the bomb was built, from the discovery of atomic energy to Hiroshima.

How the division of labour and free markets make a nation rich.

Einstein's life and science, from the Bern patent office to relativity.

PayPal from Confinity and X.com through the merger to the 2002 sale to eBay.

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

A short case against all lying, white lies included.

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.

The engineering design of liquid-propellant rocket engines, with 470 illustrations.

Clausewitz introduces friction, fog, and the political nature of conflict as irreducible elements of strategy. His insistence that war is a continuation of politics by other means is the foundational challenge to anyone who wants a purely technical theory of winning.