I consolidated the comments for my reference later. Someone else might also find it useful: # Fiction Books Recommended for Programmers (HN Thread 46128404) ## Adrian Tchaikovsky - *Children of Time* — Science Fiction (Evolution, Space Opera) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time) ## Rick Cook — Wizardry Series - *Wizard’s Bane* — Fantasy, Programming/Magic Mashup https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112616.Wizard_s_Bane - *Wizardry Series (overview)* https://www.goodreads.com/series/43084-wiz ## James P. Hogan - *Inherit the Stars* — Hard Science Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743568.Inherit_the_Stars - *Code of the Lifemaker* — Sci-Fi, Artificial Life https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296722.Code_of_the_Lifem... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296722.Code_of_the_Lifemaker) - *The Two Faces of Tomorrow* — AI, Hard Science Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218017.The_Two_Faces_of_... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218017.The_Two_Faces_of_Tomorrow) ## D. F. Jones — Colossus Trilogy - *Colossus* — AI, Classic Sci-Fi Thriller…
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- Snow Crash
- Cryptonomicon
- Neuromancer
- Daemon
- Anathem
- The Diamond Age
- Permutation City
- A Deepness in the Sky
- Ready Player One
- Children of Time
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Exhalation
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
- The Three-Body Problem
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Off to Be the Wizard
- Going Postal
- The Laundry Files
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- The Difference Engine
- The Library of Babel
- Vorkosigan Saga
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects
- Eon
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
- Galatea 2.2
- Colossus
- The Two Faces of Tomorrow
- The Bug
- Code of the Lifemaker
- Colossus and the Crab
- Inherit the Stars
- Octagon
- Radicalized
- The Fall of Colossus
- The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
- Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- Headcrash
- Wizardry