Some works by Robert L. Read

Essays

How to be a Programmer How to be a Programmer is also avialable in book form from  Cafe Press.

This article appears in the April 2009 edition of Language Magazine: Who Knows Where Esperanto Might Lead?

Transparent Accounting

Science Fiction

Genetic Demon, Memetic Angel is a 5K word short story that combines satire and hard science fiction. It was published at Oddlands webzine, which sadly folded soon after, though surely not because, they published this story.

Poetry

Black Water

Patents

I sold this patent about removing defects from a scanner some time ago.

I recently recieved this patent describing a new kind of prism that forms an image with zero internal energy loss over a limited aperture.

Promoting Esperanto

I have served on the Board of the Esperanto League of North America and strongly promote learning about the Esperanto.

I have been actively trying to increase the amount of Esperanto literature that is freely available via Project Gutenberg. (There are about 1,000 books in print in Esperanto, but they are not terribly visible to non-Esperanto speakers.) Several great authors have given their Esperanto translations to the world via Project Gutenberg:

I encourage any author, translator, or copyright-holder of Esperanto literature to contact me at: read@robertlread.net to disucss adding it to the Project Gutenberg electronic library.

My Esperanto Translations:

La Skribajxo De La Dio (The God's Script, by Jorge Luis Borges)

La Sorcxado de Ulua (The Witchcraft of Ulua, by Clark Ashton Smith)

La Imerio de la Nekromanciistoj (The Empire of Necromancers, by Clark Ashton Smith)

For Children:

A 5th Grade Lesson on Probability

A Method of Prime Factorization For Children (unfinished) (This is placed under the GFDL at Wikibooks when first written.)

Konsenti: A website for forming human consensus

I am the founder of Konsenti, a website (currently suspended) for forming human consensus based on a wide variety of ways of doing business. Users can create their own private markets and invite their friends and associates to those markets. A user community for the discussion of Konsenti exists.

The Konsenti website, though functional, never attracted any users, and never got any good reviews. I intend to restart it as soon as I have the money and energy.

I intend to work on Konsenti until 2015.