Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem, Roger Zelazny, Harry Turtledove....

e.e. cummings, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens ...

H.G. Wells (the non-fiction), Edward Gibbon, Livy, and other chroniclers of Old Dead White Men....

Andre Sakharov, Vladimir Pozner...

Anything on the Tunguskaya Event (cosmic anomaly in Siberia, 1908); anything on the Titanic; anything (good) on Pearl Harbor ....

Anything on dog psychology, to understand my "children" better; No, you can't have the car keys to chase the cat; sit!

Charles H. Fort; Martin Gardner....

Any translation of Gilgamesh or the Tao Te Ching ....

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War; Official Records of the War of the Rebellion ....

Mudcat threads--my main source of illumination since Gandhi crossed over.

CC