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Books on Nanotechnology?

Posted by Cliff on from the science-fiction-to-become-fact...maybe? dept.

Dixie_Flatline asks: "Does anyone have any suggestions for reasonable books on Nanotechnology? With all the articles posted recently, my interest has been piqued. I'm not a biologist or an engineer, so I don't want anything that requires long nights studying to understand. I'm just a programmer with an interest in knowing how research has progressed, and interesting points about the subject."

4 comments

  1. Drexler: "Engines of Creation" by Wiktor+Kochanowski · · Score: 2

    The classical text is Eric Drexler's "Engines of Creation", it has a followup work too the title of which evades me at the moment.

    For a fictional perspective try "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson and "Aristoi" by Walter Jon Williams.

  2. online books by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can try: http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/index.htm l for one of the online books.

  3. Nanotech-- sci-fi book for you by oikaze · · Score: 1

    Nanotech, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, published by Ace Books, 1998. It's not a technical read, but it's a fabulous collection of sci-fi short stories re:nanotech. -oikaze

  4. Great Book, has an intro to nano, among others... by dav · · Score: 1

    Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge Oh god, this is such a great bizarre book. Nano, L7 society, Evil Knievel....