Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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SF

Science fiction stories and comics

Science fiction

Short story collections, novellas and graphic novels, including Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Bradbury's stories, Watchmen and Transmetropolitan.

Books 23Recommenders 11

Start here

  1. I, RobotIsaac Asimov, 1950
  2. The Early Asimov: Book TwoIsaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, 1972
  3. BatmanFrank Miller, 1986
  4. WatchmenAlan Moore, 1986
  5. V for VendettaAlan Moore, 1988
I, RobotI, Robot
T4 I, Robot
Isaac Asimov · 1950
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Sahil Lavingia

The Early Asimov: Book TwoThe Early Asimov: Book Two
T4 The Early Asimov: Book Two
Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

BatmanBatman
T4 Batman
Frank Miller · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

WatchmenWatchmen
T4 Watchmen
Alan Moore · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Naval Ravikant

V for VendettaV for Vendetta
T4 V for Vendetta
Alan Moore · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

TransmetropolitanTransmetropolitan
T4 Transmetropolitan
Warren Ellis · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

PlanetaryPlanetary
T4 Planetary
Warren Ellis · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

A comic about Elijah Snow, a 100-year-old man among archaeologists of the impossible.

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Stories of Your Life and OthersStories of Your Life and Others
T4 Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eight science-fiction stories, each working out one premise with rigour.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Tim Ferriss and 3 others

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most CelebratedBradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
T4 Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
Ray Bradbury · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

A Sound of Thunder and Other StoriesA Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
T4 A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Kara Swisher

Soon I Will Be InvincibleSoon I Will Be Invincible
T4 Soon I Will Be Invincible
Austin Grossman · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The Jack Vance TreasuryThe Jack Vance Treasury
T4 The Jack Vance Treasury
Jack Vance · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The Lifecycle of Software ObjectsThe Lifecycle of Software Objects
T4 The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

ExhalationExhalation
T4 Exhalation
Ted Chiang · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Nine science-fiction stories, each working through one idea with care.

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 2 others

Compelling Science Fiction
T4 Compelling Science Fiction
Joe Stech · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld

Transmetropolitan Book OneTransmetropolitan Book One
T4 Transmetropolitan Book One
Warren Ellis · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

ArrivalArrival
T4 Arrival
Ted Chiang
Goodreads

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss, Naval Ravikant

Asimov: The Complete Stories vol 2
T4 Asimov: The Complete Stories vol 2
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns
T4 Batman Noir: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller
Goodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

Broken StarsBroken Stars
T4 Broken Stars
Ken Liu
Goodreads

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg

The Boys Omnibus Vol. 1
T4 The Boys Omnibus Vol. 1
Garth Ennis
Goodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The Complete Stories of Isaac Asimov
T4 The Complete Stories of Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Goodreads

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The Paper Mengerie
T4 The Paper Mengerie
Ken Liu
Goodreads

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg

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