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Books/Authors mentioned:Snowcrash (also The Diamond Age / Zodiac) StephensonPattern Recognition, GibsonKindred, Octavia ButlerNeuromancer, Gibson (Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive)Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams1984, OrwellBrave New WorldThe AI Gang, Bruce CovilleStranger in a Strange Land, HeinleinNorby Chronicles, AsimovRay BradburyA Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’EngleStainless Steel Rat, Harry HarrisonCuckoo’s Egg, Cliff StollSewer, Gas, & Electric, Matt RuffDifference Engine (Gibson AND Sterling)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg LarssonEnder’s Game, Orson Scott CardThe Cyberpunk Handbook, St Jude, RU Sirius, Bart Nagel [1995!]Red Mars, Kim Stanley RobinsonHalting State, Charlie Stross (also, Accelerando)Rainbow’s End, Vernor Vinge (also Across Real Time series, Fire Upon the Deep, Deepness Upon the Sky) The Ice Queen & The Summer Queen (Joan Vinge)The Peripheral, REAMDE (Gibson)Koko Takes a Holiday, Kieran SheaThe Rook, Daniel O'MalleyThe Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)The Dark is Rising, Susan CooperBeing Mortal, Atul GawandeN. K. JemisinThe Westing Game, Ellen Raskin