# utopia / dystopia
- Woman on the Edge of Time – Marge Piercy
- This masterpiece gives us insight into feminist utopia, but from a viewpoint of somebody who comes from this world.
- Daemon – Daniel Suarez
- How could an alternative to capitalism look like, that uses modern technology and is also capable of managing a revolution?
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Old New Land – Theodor Herzl
- Written 1902 this book imagines how a Jewish State could look like. Israel was not founded until 46 years later.
# revolution
- The State and Revolution – Vladimir Lenin
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany – Friedrich Engels
- Daemon – Daniel Suarez
- How could an alternative to capitalism look like, that uses modern technology and is also capable of managing a revolution?
# sciene
- The Way Things Work – David Macaulay
- A good and highly interesting introduction to physics with a lot of illustrations. After reading it you want to create your own machines.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
- This books focus on how scientists found out what they found out and on all the errors they made in between. A interesting introduction how life on the earth works.
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Universe in a Nutshell – Stephen Hawking
# hacking / technology / virtual reality
- Otherland (Series) – Tad Williams
- Explores the idea of virtual realities in a stunning story.
- Millenium Triologie – Stieg Larsson
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
- Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
- When security overrules freedom, then we need to do something. With a nice plot this book explains also some technical aspects quite neatly.
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- Jumping from World War 2 to present, from cracking the enigma to hacking in modern times, this novel is one of my favorites.
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker – Kevin D. Mitnick
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan
- Daemon – Daniel Suarez
- How could an alternative to capitalism look like, that uses modern technology and is also capable of managing a revolution?