Books by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov’s New Guide to Science . I read that when I was 13 or 14 and thought it was just amazing. (I was an exchange student in Germany at the time. I didn’t learn much German but I did have my eyes opened to many aspects of science that I previously knew nothing about!) Some of John Gribbin’s books , like In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat , really inspired me. Douglas Hofstadter — especially Metamagical Themas . (I read GEB when I was a teenager but found it a bit of a slog.) But, honestly, I...