Fantasy/sci-fi fans! Tell me your non-literary interests, and I'll try to recommend a matching book!

[BreweryYardRat]

Tell away.

[DarkTirade]

1. Easy one: Sex!

You don't even need to recommend... I already have some late Heinlein and Niven. :P

[BreweryYardRat]

3. Heh.

Unfortunately, if you're seriously looking for something hot n' heavy, I don't generally read that. Porn sufficeth for me. I could still recommend something based on the dust jacket blurbs I've seen, if you'd like.

[LeftyMom]

8. Fantasy: sometimes Laurel K. Hamilton sneeks some plot in between the sex scenes.

:eyes:

[Swede]

10. Piers Anthony is obsessed with sex IMHO.

Just google him.

[Dr. Strange]

2. Mathematics!

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Rudy Rucker's "White Light"!

It's a novel about Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis.

No, really!

[Fox Mulder]

4. Philosophy and The Arts.

I'm more of a fantasy fan over sci-fi. :)

[BreweryYardRat]

6. Hmm...

...for philosophy, try some of Harry Turtledove's fantasy and historical fiction, and some of Lawrence Watt-Evans' recent fantasy. Plenty of philosophical insight there, but it doesn't beat you over the head with a club and advertise itself.

Turtledove:

Fantasy: Wisdom of the Fox, Tale of the Fox, The Time of Troubles I and II (previously published as The Stolen Throne, Hammer and Anvil, The Thousand Cities, Videssos Besieged), The Tale of Krispos (previously published as Krispos Rising, Krispos of Videssos, Krispos the Emperor), Bridge of the Separator.

Historical fiction (writing as H.N. Turteltaub): Over the Wine-Dark Sea, The Gryphon's Skull, The Sacred Land, Owls to Athens. (The last two have a tiny bit of the arts in them -- Turtledove describes a Mesopotamian tapestry in Land, and the famous statue of Athena at the Parthenon in Owls.)

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Watt-Evans:

Dragon Weather, The Dragon Society, Dragon Venom.

The Wizard Lord, The Ninth Talisman.

[Swede]

5. Quantum physics.

Not that I understand it,it just fascinates me.



Well, either we’ve found the Higgs boson, or Fred’s just put the kettle on.”

[pokerfan]

11. SF with quantum mechanics

Coover, Robert - The Universal Baseball Association: J. Henry Waugh, Proprietor. 1968, Random House. Works out some of the philosophical consequences of Einstein's remark about "God playing dice" with the universe.

Egan, Greg - Quarantine.1992, Harper Prism. A sophisticated detective mystery that addresses serious ideas in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Hoyle, Fred - October the First Is Too Late. 1966, Fawcett. Fascinating working-out of the many‑worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Lem, Stanislav - The Investigation. 1959, Avon. A novel that considers the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics: what if a mystery is unsolvable in principle?

McCormach, Russell - Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist. 1982, Harvard U. Press. A fictional physicist muses on the transformation of classical physics in the early years of the twentieth century; written by a historian of science.

Niven, Larry - "All the Myriad Ways" in All the Myriad Ways. 1971, Ballantine. Works out some of the implications of the many-worlds interpretation for solving murder mysteries.

Niven, Larry - "For a Foggy Night" in N-Space. 1990, TOR. Humorous story in which the fog in San Francisco turns out to be a blurring effect of meeting world lines in many-worlds quantum mechanics.

Pohl, Fred - The Coming of the Quantum Cats. 1986, Bantam. A novel of parallel universes based on the many-worlds view.

Schmidt, Stanley - Newton and the Quasi‑Apple. 1975, Popular Library. In another star system, Earth visitors introduce notions from 20th-century physics to an alien civilization just as their Newton publishes his ideas.

http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/scifiprint.html#quantum

[quakerboy]

7. hmm

This is a challenge.

Lets start with hair bands, rare steak(for eating), fuzzy critters (not for eating), beautiful people (on the inside, and lets keep it there).

Throw in a side of childhood ambitions of being an 8 foot tall red headed green eyed Police officer who by night happens to also be the arch villain that I as a police officer by day am investigating.

Recommendation please.

[Starry Messenger]

12. ceramics

caveat: I've already read "Galactic Pot Healer".

[csziggy]

13. Horses - but I already know

The Elizabeth Moon series with Captain Serrano, especially the first three:
Hunting Party
Sporting Chance
Winning Colors