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This page contains a comprehensive hopelessly incomplete list of publications, including both books and scholarly articles, about Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata.

Academic journals

• Adamatzky, Andrew (ed. in chief): Journal of Cellular Automata

Life

• Martin Gardner: Wheels, Life and other Mathematical Amusements:
  • Chapter 20: The Game of Life, Part I (pp. 214-225)
  • Chapter 21: The Game of Life, Part II (pp. 226-240)
  • Chapter 22: The Game of Life, Part III (pp. 241-257)
• William Poundstone: The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge, William Morrow &amp Co. (1985); reprinted by Dover (2013), ISBN 978-0-486-49098-4, OCLC 809411873.

General cellular automata

• Adamatzky, Andrew: Identification of Cellular Automata, Taylor & Francis Ltd (1994), ISBN 0-7484-0172-5, OCLC 32744438
• Adamatzky, Andrew (ed): Game of Life Cellular Automata, Springer (London) (2010), ISBN 978-1-84996-216-2, OCLC 619946115. Contains:
  • Bays, Carter: Introduction to Cellular Automata and Conway's Game of Life
  • Part I: Historical
    • Wainwright, Robert: Conway's Game of Life: Early Personal Recollections
    • McIntosh, Harold V.: Conway's Life
    • McIntosh, Harold V.: Life's Still Lifes
    • McIntosh, Harold V.: A Zoo of Life Forms
  • Part II: Classical Topics
    • Eppstein, David: Growth and Decay in Life-Like Cellular Automata
    • Johnston, Nathaniel: The B36/S125 "2x2" Life-Like Cellular Automaton
    • Niemiec, Mark D.: Object Synthesis in Conway's Game of Life and Other Cellular Automata
    • Sapin, Emmanuel: Gliders and Glider Guns Discovery in Cellular Automata
    • Chu, Geoffrey; Petrie, Karen Elizabeth; Yorke-Smith, Neil: Constraint Programming to Solve Maximal Density Still Life
  • Part III: Asynchronous, Continuous and Memory-Enriched Automata
    • Evans, Kellie Michele: Larger than Life's Extremes: Rigorous Results for Simplified Rules and Speculation on the Phase Boundaries
    • Pivato, Marcus: RealLife
    • Peper, Ferdinand; Adachi, Susumu; Lee, Jia: Variations on the Game of Life
    • Fatès, Nazim: Does Life Resist Asynchrony?
    • Alsonso-Sanz, Ramón: LIFE with Short-Term Memory
    • Martínez, Genaro J.; Adamatzky, Andrew; McIntosh, Harold V.: Localization Dynamics in a Binary Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton: The Diffusion Rule
  • Part IV: Non-orthogonal Lattices
    • Bays, Carter: The Game of Life in Non-square Environments
    • Owens, Nick; Stepney, Susan: The Game of Life Rules on Penrose Tilings: Still Life and Oscillators
    • Ventrelle, Jeffrey: A Spherical XOR Gate Implemented in the Game of Life
  • Part V: Complexity
    • Gotts, Nick: Emergent Complexity in Conway's Game of Life
    • Hernández-Montoya, A.R.; Coronel-Brizio, H.F.; Rodriguez-Achach, M.E.: Macroscopic Spatial Complexity of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton: A Simple Data Analysis
  • Part VI: Physics
    • Conti, Claudio: The Enlightened Game of Life
    • Flitney, Adrian P.; Abbott, Derek: Towards a Quantum Game of Life
  • Part VII: Music
    • Miranda, Eduardo R.; Kirke, Alexis: Game of Life Music
  • Part VIII: Computation
    • Goucher, Adam P.: Universal Computation and Construction in GoL Cellular Automata
    • Rendell, Paul: A Simple Universal Turing Machine for the Game of Life Turing Machine
    • Martínez, Genaro J.; Adamatzky, Andrew; Morita, Kenichi; Margenstern, Maurice: Computation with Competing Patterns in Life-Like Automaton
• Adamatzky, Andrew, Martínez, Genaro J. (eds): Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata, Springer (2016), ISBN 978-3-319-27269-6, OCLC 934720008. Contains:
  • Griffeath David: Self-Organizing Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata: 10 Still Frames
  • Wuensche, Andrew: Is it Art or Science?
  • Evans, Kellie Michele: Larger than Life
  • Reiter, Clifford: Three Favorite Cellular Automata
  • Krawczyk, Robert J.: Cellular Automata: Dying to Live Again, Architecture, Art, Design
  • Hutton, Tim J.: In Search of Movement and Life on a Static Grid
  • Johnston, Nathaniel: Some Beautiful and Difficult Questions about Cellular Automata
  • Margenstern, Maurice: Hyperbolic Gallery
  • Ventrella, Jeffrey: Evolved Gliders and Waves on a Geodesic Grid
  • Sipper, Moshe: Constructing Counters through Evolution
  • Deutsch, Andreas: Biological Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata
  • Conti, Claudio: The Enlightened Game of Life
  • Umeo, Hiroshi: Small Synchronizers and Prime Generators
  • Sayama, Hiroki: Ecological Patterns of Self-Replicators
  • Stepney, Susan: The Art of Penrose Life
  • Bandman, Olga: Asynchronous Cellular Automata Simulating Complex Phenomena
  • Medvedev, Yuri: A Multiparticle Lattice-Gas Cellular Automaton Simulating a Piston Motion
  • Kireeva, Anastasiya: Two Layer Asynchronous Cellular Automata
  • Vitvitsky, Anton: Cellular Automata Simulation of Bacterial Cell Growth and Division
  • Georgoudas, Ioakeim G., Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch., Scordilis, Emmanuel M., Andreadis, Ioannis: Seismic Cellular Automata
  • Mizar, Charilaos, Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch., Mardiris, Vasilios, Karafyllidis, Ioannis, Glykos, Nicholas, Sandaltzopoulos, Raphael, DNA Cellular Automata
  • Mora, Joan Carlos Seck Tuoh, Romero, Noberto Hernandez, Marin, Joselito Medina, Reversibility, Simulation and Dynamical Behaviour
  • Fatès, Nazim, Aesthetics and Randomness in Cellular Automata
  • Alonso-Sanz, Ramon, Cellular Automata with Memory
  • Rendell, Paul, Turing Machines and Checkerboards
  • Imai, Katsunobu, Aperiodicity and Reversibility
  • Makowiec, Danuta, Painting with Cellular Automata
  • McIntosh, Harold V., Patterns in Cellular Automata
  • Martínez, GenaroJ., Gliders in One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
  • Adamatzky, Andrew, Excitable Automata

Biographies

• Roberts, Siobhan: Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, Bloomsbury (2015), ISBN 978-1-62040-593-2, OCLC 967836933