> That book (along with a small handful of others) made near-future scifi my favorite genre. Any other suggestions? Which others? If you've read Daemon and Fr

> That book (along with a small handful of others) made near-future scifi my favorite genre. Any other suggestions? Which others? If you've read Daemon and Freedom (TM), maybe you've already read Kill Decision, also by Daniel Suarez. It's about autonomous, swarming drones used in the military. Daemon is a better book though IMO. There's Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future, which is a collection of short stores in the near-future sci-fi genre. Neal Stephenson found Project Hieroglyph with the intent of advancing positive (non-dystopian) sci fi in the near future, and thus spurring on the next generation of scientists and engineers to go ahead and create it. Peter Watt's Blindsight and Echopraxia are also good (currently still reading the latter). It has scientifically plausible zombies and vampires, so that's something. Ramez Naam's Nexus has very interesting ideas on what happens to the world with very good brain-computer interfaces. It's set in the near-future, but I do think the tech is implausible here for so soon. William Hertling's Avogadro Corp is about a paperclip maximizer built by mistake by a Google-like company, with a Gmail-like service that is manipulated by said paperclip maximizer.