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Best Books

For the past six years the team at Nanotechnology Now has tracked the thousands of websites, individuals, businesses, and government and educational institutions that exist in the nanospace. We read about and report on them every day, 365 days a year. By interviewing them, and covering their news, opinions, discoveries, triumphs and failures, we have come to appreciate a few above the rest.

BOOKS

Our choices for the best books of 2003, non-fiction:

The Next Big Thing Is Really Small Jack Uldrich Deb Newberry

Hacking Matter Wil McCarthy

The Mother of All Minds Dudley Lynch

Best Non-Fiction Books Runners-Up:

Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution. K. Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson, with Gayle Pergamit. 1991 [online and free]


Nanotechnology and Homeland Security: New Weapons for New Wars. Dan Ratner, Mark Ratner. November 2003


Nanomedicine : Basic Capabilities, Vol. 1 Robert A. Freitas Jr. 1999 Online Version


Nanomedicine, Volume IIA: Biocompatibility. Robert A. Freitas Jr. October 2003


Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea Mark Ratner & Daniel Ratner. November 2002


Engines of Creation: The coming era of nanotechnology. K. Eric Drexler. 1987 Reviews


Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation. K. Eric Drexler. 1992 Reviews


Our Molecular Future Douglas Mulhall. March 2002 Review


The Investor's Guide to Nanotechnology and Micromachines Glenn Fishbine. January 2002

Our choices for the best book of 2003, science fiction:

Metaplanetary Tony Daniel 2001 our review

Best Science Fiction Books Runners-Up:

The Wellstone Wil McCarthy 2003


The Collapsium Wil McCarthy 2002


The First Immortal. James L. Halperin 1998