Science Fiction & Tech Fiction relevant for students interested in issues of informatics & society

 

This list is work in progress. Please add stuff. Do not delete other stuff. Avoid using yellow. Thank you. 

 

 

Daniel Suarez 

    Deamon, Freedom™ (Two Parts of a Story) 

    Kill decision [1]

 

Cory Doctorow

    Little brother, Homeland

    Pirate cinema

    For the win

    Makers

    Down and out in the magic kingdom

    Printcrime (short story)

    Backup

 

Paolo Bacigalupi

    The windup girl

 

Marc Elsberg

    Black out [1]

    Zero

    

Andreas Eschbach

    Ein König für Deutschland

    

Frank Herbert

    Dune (Relevant beacause it daels with a society that completly rejects Computers and Artificial Intelligence)

 

Rob Reid

    Year zero

 

Neal Stephenson

    Snow crash

    Diamond age

 

William Gibson

    Neuromancer trilogy (Neuromancer, Count zero, Mona lisa overdrive)

    Johnny Mnemonic (short story)

?  Bridge trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All tomorrows Parties)

 

Bruce Sterling

    Holy fire 

    The kiosk (short story) 

 

Hannu Rajaniemi

    The Quantum Thief

 

Mark Russinovich

    Zero Day

 

Robin Sloan

    Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

 

Isaac Asimov

    I, Robot

 

Margaret Atwood

    Oryx and Crake

 

Jennifer Marie Brissett

    Elysium

 

Philip K. Dick

    Minority report (the book)

    

Ernest Cline

    Ready player one

 

Ivy Jane

    Computer Love (Webcomic) http://www.clcomic.com

 

Tad Williams

    Otherland tetralogy

 

Juli Zeh

    Corpus delicti

 

George Orwell

    1984

 

walkingnorth

    Always Human (Webcomic) http://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/always-human/1-i-guess-thats-why-i-admire-her/viewer?title_no=557&episode_no=1 - warning: autoplaying music

 

Randall Munroe

    xkcd Comics http://xkcd.com/

    What If?

    Thing Explainer

 

Douglas Adams

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

Richard Morgan

    Das Unsterblichkeitsprogramm

 

Matt Kindt

        RAI (comic book)

        4001 (comic book)

 

Special Area: Books about the history of computing

 

Bruce Sterling & William Gibson

    The difference engine

     

Sydney Padua

    The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

 

Neal Stephenson

    Cryptonomicon

 

Special Area: Non-fiction

 

Glenn Greenwald

    No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

 

Thomas Wagner

    Robokratie: Google, das Silicon Valley und der Mensch als Auslaufmodell

 

Currently on my reading list    

 

Robin Sloan

    Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore (nice book, only little relevance)

 

Dave Eggers

    The circle (bah. lame story, lame characters, unbelievable, forseeable) 

 

Liz Moore

    The unseen world

    

Paul J. McAuley

    Whole wide world

 

 

[1] these books affected me in unforseen ways. some scenes are quite drastic descriptions of things that are conceivable to happen.