Ask HN: Books that altered your view of reality
Recommendations from 39 sampled comments out of 39 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
stuxnet79 · Sep 12, 2015Quality stuff. That right there was enough to make me a lifelong Gibson fan.
gexos · Sep 12, 2015+1 Neuromancer was a wild ride for me, Gibson practically invented cyberpunk fiction when he wrote this novel.
mindcrime · Sep 12, 2015Neuromancer - William Gibson
aaron695 · Sep 12, 2015Daemon - Daniel Suarez
They are both more AR
9ScoskEbci · Sep 12, 2015Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez.
jeo1234 · Sep 12, 2015AR plays a heavy role in it (and it is my favorite Stephenson novel).
loqi · Sep 14, 2015Greg Egan's Permutation City plays some novel games with reality.
anon987 · Sep 13, 2015Everyone on HN should read this book - 11/10
mmonihan · Sep 12, 2015Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut
tonyedgecombe · Sep 12, 2015Walden, not because I want to go and live in the woods, but because it helped me question many of the "truths" I had come to believe.
V-2 · Sep 12, 2015"Ubik" is pretty awesome.
V-2 · Sep 12, 2015Personally I liked "Ubik" better.
oldsj · Sep 13, 2015Diaspora was pretty amazing
anon987 · Sep 13, 2015I had to put this one down but I plan to pick it up later. His ideas can be super dense at times and it makes fun reading feel like work.
solipsism · Sep 12, 2015Diaspora by Greg Egan will twist the way you think of perception
9ScoskEbci · Sep 12, 2015Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez.
mindcrime · Sep 12, 2015REAMDE- Neal Stephenson
jeo1234 · Sep 12, 2015Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami.
I can't say much about it without ruining it.