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Jakob Nielsen: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
Nielsen is a pioneer in this field, and always worth reading.
Steve Krug: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Lively and readable!
Editors of EEI Press: E-What? A Guide to the Quirks of New Media Style and Usage
When you can't make up your mind about email or e-mail, this usage handbook can help.
Jonathan Price: Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion on writing for the Web in its many forms.
Nick Usborne: Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy
Passionately argued introduction to writing sales copy for the Web.
Mario R. Garcia: Redesigning Print for the Web
Emphasis is on adapting newspaper stories to Web sites, but the principles apply to other print media as well.
Rachel McAlpine: Web Word Wizardry A Net-Savvy Writing Guide
Lively guide to writing for the Web, with some clear technical advice as well.
The Fall of the Republic
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.
Rogue Emperor
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.
The Empire of Time
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.
Gryphon
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.
Tsunami
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.
Icequake
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.
Eyas
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
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