Novels
- The Angle Quickest for Flight (1999)
- Last Tango in Cyberspace (2019)
- The Devil’s Dictionary (2022)
Non fiction
- West of Jesus (2006)
- A Small Furry Prayer (2010)
- Abundance (2012)
- The Rise of Superman (2014)
- Bold (2015)
- Tomorrowland (2015)
- Stealing Fire (2017)
- The Future Is Faster Than You Think (2020)
- The Art of Impossible (2021)
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Steven Kotler Books Overview
The Angle Quickest for Flight
In The Angle Quickest for Flight, a quintet of eccentric metaphysicians searches for a sacred book looted during the Spanish Inquisition and tithed to the Vatican. Steven Kotler’s first novel, which received acclaim from masters such as John Barth, moves with dizzying power across continents and epochs, weaving a multilayered narrative around secret societies, mad magicians, and a runaway boy named Angel.
West of Jesus
A spiritual and scientific surf quest, West of Jesus tracks a contemporary surfing myth and looks at the neuroscience that connects spirituality and high risk sport. After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing. What was belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history? Into this mix came a strange story. In 2003, on a surf trip through Mexico, Kotler heard of ‘the conductor,’ a mythical surfer who could control the weather. He’d heard this same tale eight years earlier, in Indonesia, but this time something clicked. With the help of everyone from rebel surfers to rocket scientists, Kotler undertakes a three year globetrotting quest for the origins of this legend. The results are a startling mix of big waves and bigger ideas: a surfer’s journey into the biological underpinnings of belief itself.
A Small Furry Prayer
Dog rescue is one of the largest underground movements in America. It is also one of the least understood. This insider look at the culture of dog rescue begins with Kotler’s personal experience working with an ever peculiar pack of dogs and becomes a much deeper investigation into exactly what it means to devote one’s life to the furry and the four legged, in the end showing why living in a world of dogs may be the best way to uncover the truth about what it really means to be human. Praise for A Small Furry Prayer:’It’s amazing and also very encouraging to find a book like this one, filled with original thought and plenty of new information. And if that’s not enough, it’s a great read, a real page turner. I strongly recommend it to anyone.’ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs ‘This gritty journey into ‘a world made of dog’ is unlike any dog story you’ve ever read.’ Christian Science Monitor’Anyone who is interested in the human animal connection, the bond that we feel with our dogs, will find this book fascinating. It’s almost a guarantee that you will look at your dog in a totally different way.’ San Francisco Examiner ‘Joyous Brim*ming with humor, gratitude, and grace, this is a remarkable story.’ Publishers Weekly starred review
Abundance
Providing Abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions. An antidote to pessimism by tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist, Peter H. Diamandis and award winning science writer Steven Kotler. Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing fast. The authors document how four forces exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism. Examining human need by category water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom Diamandis and Kotler introduce dozens of innovators making great strides in each area: Larry Page, Steven Hawking, Dean Kamen, Daniel Kahneman, Elon Musk, Bill Joy, Stewart Brand, Jeff Skoll, Ray Kurzweil, Ratan Tata, Craig Venter, among many, many others.
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