Books Referenced

1. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

   Author: various, collected stories dating back to approximately 800-900 AD. 

2. Fight Club

   Author: Chuck Palahniuk. First published 1996, pop culture phenomenon, made into a movie with Brad Pitt and Ed Norton in 1999.

   Textual relevance: Clio convinces Eric she can lie in the hammock in Greece and read the book during second decoded Light Bulb Fragment.

3. Invention of Solitude: A Memoir

    

   Author: Paul Auster. First published in 1982. The first half, “Portrait of an Invisible Man” is a memoir about the author’s father discovered by tracking down his artifacts; the second half is called “The Book of Memory.”

   Textual relevance: the book First Eric Sanderson reads while on vacation in Naxos Greece

4. Crooked Cucumber

   Author: Shunryu Suzuki’s; it's a biography written by David Chadwick; Eric calls it erroneously "an autobiography"

   Textual Relevance: new book picked up in Greece by First Eric Sanderson; already read the author’s Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

5. Shogun

   Author: James Clavell

   Textual Relevance: as above

6. Three books on Greek mythology

   Textual Relevance: as above

7. Hound of the Baskervilles

    

   Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

   Textual relevance: Clio dislikes ACD after reading too many of them in the hospital while fighting cancer

8. The Origin of Species

    

   Author: Charles Darwin; this edition contains with Evolution Engine by Trey Fidorous

   Textual relevance: Delivered in a package with a note for Second Eric Sanderson to meet the sender

9. Other Holes and Superficialities:

   Textual reference: Second Eric Sanderson picks up this book while looking for Ian

10. A list of the books in First Eric Sanderson's bedroom: The Teachings of Master Lin-Chi; The Helmet of Horror; Out of Africa: The Story of Human Evolution; The Intuitive Edge; Catch-22; Dreamtime and the All-At-Once; Jurassic Park; Understanding Quantum Mechanics; The Call of Cthulhu; How Your Brane Works; The Unfortunates: A Brief History of Time; The Quantum Machinegun; The Complete Escher, Brick by Brick, The Analysis and Treatment of Traumatic Disassociation
11. The Encyclopaedia of Unusual Fish

    Author: Dr Victor Helstrom

    Textual reference: It's an older book that includes a chapter entitled “The Fish of Mind, Word and Invention.”

12. Clio’s copy of Greek Island Hopping, a Backpacker’s Guide with all of her notes, stars, underlined text etc.