I’m sure these have already come up, but I’ll add my voice in enthusiastically recommending the following -
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Accelerando by Charles Stross
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Accelerando will have rather familiar themes and ideas to anyone who’s spent significant time on LW, in particular, although that goes for the others to a slightly lesser extent. City at the End of Time was probably the most “work” for me to read out of the four—I enjoyed it greatly, but it’s a book best savored slowly. Neuromancer is pretty much the grand icon of cyberpunk, and Gibson’s facility with densely evocative language makes me jealous. The Diamond Age is probably the one I had the most lighthearted fun in reading, the easiest to follow, even though it’s a very thought-provoking story.
I’m sure these have already come up, but I’ll add my voice in enthusiastically recommending the following -
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Accelerando by Charles Stross
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Accelerando will have rather familiar themes and ideas to anyone who’s spent significant time on LW, in particular, although that goes for the others to a slightly lesser extent. City at the End of Time was probably the most “work” for me to read out of the four—I enjoyed it greatly, but it’s a book best savored slowly. Neuromancer is pretty much the grand icon of cyberpunk, and Gibson’s facility with densely evocative language makes me jealous. The Diamond Age is probably the one I had the most lighthearted fun in reading, the easiest to follow, even though it’s a very thought-provoking story.