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Recommended Reading List
Results and further recommendations from the Literarischer Abend. Please append freely (mark your comments as such).
Also see ftp://188.40.50.156/ or rather FTP#Literarischer_Abend.
Mentioned in the talk:
- Homer: Ilias, Odyssee (13./12. century BC)
- Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1951)
- James P. Hogan: Die Kinder von Alpha Centauri / Voyage from Yesteryear (1982)
- Philip K. Dick: Das Orakel vom Berge / The Man in the High Castle (1962)
- Stanislaw Lem: Der futurologische Kongress / The Futurological Congress (1971)
- John Brunner
- Die Plätze der Stadt / The Squares of the City (1965)
- Am falschen Ende der Zeit / The Wrong End of Time (1971)
- Schafe blicken auf / The Sheep Look Up (1972)
- Der Schockwellenreiter / The Shockwave Rider (1975)
- Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson: Illuminatus (1975)
- Vernor Vinge: True Names (1981)
- William Gibson:
- Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)
- Virtual Light (1983)
- Idoru (1996)
- All Tomorrows Parties (1999)
- Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), Zero History (2010)
- William Gibson, Bruce Sterling: The Difference Engine (1990)
- Jeff Noon: Vurt (1993)
- Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere (1996)
- Frank Miller: V for Vendetta (1982-89)
- Neal Stephenson:
- Snowcrash (1992) The world's best hacker and swordfighter - Hiro Protagonist - travels the future corporate loglo-states.
- Die Grenzwelt / The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1995)
- Cryptonomicon (1999)
- In the beginning was the commandline (1999)
- Anathem (2008)
- Daniel Suarez:
- Daemon (2006)
- Freedom (2010)
- Lawrence Lessig: "Free Culture" (2004)
Mentioned by the audience
- Walter Moers: Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher (2004)
- Edward Bellamy: Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2000 auf 1887 / Looking Backward or Life in the Year 2000 (1887)
- Charles Stross
- Post-Singularity
- Accelerando (2005)
- Eschaton series: Singularity Sky (2003), Iron Sunrise (2004)
- Laundry series:
- The Atrocity Archives (2004)
- The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
- The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
- Post-Singularity
- John Graham-Cumming: The Geek Atlas (2010)
- Scarlett Thomas
- Ted Chiang: What's Expected of Us (2005)
- Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan (1997-2002)
- Cory Doctorow
- Catherine Hales: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999)
- Huber Schleichert: Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert ohne den Verstand zu verlieren (1997)
Additional recommendations (feel free to extend)
- Isaac Asimov
- Foundation trilogy (1951-1953)
- Robot series (1950 - 1985)
- Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- George Orwell
- 1984 (1949)
- Aldous Huxley
- Brave New World (1932)
- Frank Herbert
- Dune (1965)
- Ursula K. Le Guin:
- Planet der Habenichtse / The Dispossessed (1974), u.A.
