Self taught here, specifying sources is pretty much a no go with me. I try to read multiple angles, the stranger ones make great late night reading, and focus on what works. I haven’t published anything...yet.
Many nonsensical conjectures fall out when pure math is applied. No arrow of time probably being the most prominent one.

The Second Edition had a cover that was Blood Red. There is a story -- possibly apocryphal -- that Jackson once answered a question at a seminar by saying that the choice of color had been no accident.