Is the data old? Lexicon by Max Barry is missing and its hardly an unknown novel:
A New York Times Summer Beach Read
An Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Pick June 2013
A Best of June iBookstore Pick
A Time Magazine "What to Read Now" Pick
A Huffington Post Best Book of Summer 2013
A Salon "Summer's Best Reads"
A Hollywood Reporter "Buzzy Books for Hollywood's Reading List"
A Pittsburgh Post Gazette Beach Read
A Kirkus Ten Best Novels for Summer Reading 2013
I imagine it should make it onto a list of scifi books.
Just looked it up, seems awesome. I'm almost done with what I'm currently reading, so I will pick this up next. Do you have any other recommendations? I've been looking for more stuff like this (futurist, adventure, sci-fi, not cheesy), but just haven't been able to find the right one.
Hyperion and Endymion by Dan Simmons are quite good.
It's set in the far future, when humans have colonized the whole Galaxy, and AIs have become so advanced that they are sentient and have their own world, somewhat parallel to the human world.
Rule 34 by charlie stross. It's a very near future scifi involving ai in a somewhat different way than normal. The author is on hn with the username cstross.
There was great discussion of this in Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It's sci-fi book, has story etc, but I mostly liked it because of such discussions between characters presented with invented terminology (so you don't skip over them out of familiarity).
For something relatively new, and related to hn, I'd recommend Bruce Sterling's latest: "Zenith Angle". Although, that's not quite sci-fi, more just fiction.
All I've read of Stanislaw Lem I'd recommend (for some classic sci-fi), also Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky brothers) is very good.
Keeping with the theme of the other books listed above, I'd recommend Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire", or maybe "Babel-17" by Samuel R. Delany (although I prefer his youth fantasy novel "Neveyona" which deals with some of the same themes). Also, you can't go wrong with his "The Einstein Intersection".
Finally, if you haven't read anything of Vernor Vinge, I have a look at "A Fire Upon the Deep".
Hm, I guess there are a few too many Nebula Award winners in there for the recommendations to be really useful... here's one more: "Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon.
Perhaps a bit haphazard, but maybe you'll find something you like there :-)
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