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.