Deepness in the sky is top 5 scifi. Great programmer tropes hidden in there. Others: - first bobiverse book (followed by all the rest) - permutation city (ne

Deepness in the sky is top 5 scifi. Great programmer tropes hidden in there. Others: - first bobiverse book (followed by all the rest) - permutation city (next: diaspora, etc) - Diamond age (so relevant now with spread of LLMs) - count to a trillion (A cowboy lawyer mathematician takes enough drugs to invent antimatter tech)