Recommend Fiction for Programmers

Question

Books

Examples:
1. Just for fun. Linus Torvalds
2. Coders at work Peter Seibel
3. Cryptonomicon By Neil Stevenson

Answer 1

The Strugatsky brothers, "Monday starts on Saturday"

Answer 2

I would advise reading Sheckley, as well as
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide (by D. Adams) - in general, it is necessary to include programmers in the mandatory course :)

Answer 3

there is a convenient portal fantlab.ru
where there is a possibility of detailed genre/plot filtering of books.
for example, we can select the "Artificial Intelligence" checkbox in the "Plot Moves" section.
The only negative is that it is still sharpened for fantasy.

Answer 4

And what, programmers care what/whom to read? I don’t care who the author is and what genre, as long as the book is good.
Today I finished rereading Lukin, who was recommended, by the way, here . Not everything, only prose, I don’t understand poetry and therefore I don’t read. Once again I enjoyed it.
Tomorrow I will “throw a coin” and choose a random author/book on the flibust. And I will repeat until I find something worthy :)

Answer 5

From fiction:
- Asimov
- "Enclaves" by Panov.

Answer 6

And here's another entertaining topic with a bunch of literature . Choose :)

Answer 7

G.L. Oldie "Messiah Clears the Disc"

Answer 8

Sergey Lukyanenko - Labyrinth of Reflections

Answer 9

Neal Stevenson "Cryptonomicon" - an unambiguous mast read about hackers, cryptography and cryptanalysis in our days and during WWII, very exciting; then other books by the author.
William Gibson - all creativity, classics.
Michael Swanwick "Vacuum Flowers" - mast read.
In general, there are Hugo and Nebula literary awards for science fiction, you can just read all the works awarded by them, you won’t regret it;)

Answer 10

The labyrinth of Lukyanenko's reflections is definitely
Azimov's, and everything, and not just about robots. Including cycles about the Academy. It's full of awesome programmers.
From not quite artistic Icon. Steve Jobs.

Answer 11

From near-IT (story, mostly):
- Alexander Lazarevich "Prince of Darkness" and "Lord of Mars" (dilogue)
- Sergey Petrov "Absolute Programming"
- Corey Doctrow "When SysAdmins Ruled the World" (or there are other books by this author)
- Alex Exler "Notes of the Programmer's Wife"
From the classics , we can recommend the same Lem, Asimov (the cycle "I, Robot" and others). Of the more geeky ones , there are books about Kevin Mitnick, or about Linus Torvalds (I won’t list them, they are found quickly). Russinovich also wrote a book.
From what I haven’t read (so I can’t say anything), but I plan to read
- Syulett Dreyfus "Computer underground. Stories about hackers, madness and obsession ”
- Sergey Frumkin“ Programmer ”
- Douglas Copeland“ Slaves of Microsoft ”
(there was also some book about computer topics, its discussion was raised on the Internet a couple of months ago. I didn’t read it either, and I can’t remember the name. I would be grateful if someone reminds me.)
In general, it does not matter if it is an IT topic or not. The main thing is that the book is good. And good books - wow, we don’t read so many.
Oh yes, I almost forgot. You can also watch the movie "Password Swordfish", where computers also show :))

Answer 12

Below - So Zarathustra
Chuck Palahniuk said - Fight Club
just motivates and distracts, well, look at the code differently when you reach the Tao of Self-Destruction with the arrival in Anarchy!

Answer 13

Yakov Perelman, you can start with "entertaining algebra", and then how will it go

Answer 14

If you like a near-fantastic topic about AI and the near future, then I recommend "Full root"

Answer 15

Steven Levy "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution".

Answer 16

Read Charles Petzold. This is very artistic literature.

Answer 17

I recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series. Good humor, interesting parallels and parodies of the real world.

Answer 18

Well, for a snack zhurnal.lib.ru/p/pupkin_wasja_ibragimowich/
The work "Nick". =)

Answer 19

Zero day by Mark Russinovich

Answer 20

Exit Strategy, Rushkoff
Microsoft Slaves, Copeland

Answer 21

4. Icon

Answer 22

Alexander Chubaryan, Full Root
I liked it at the time

Answer 23

Den Brown "Digital Fortress"

Answer 24

Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The book is artistic and philosophical, well suited for programmers. The main character is a teacher of literature and a technical writer.
More artistic and less philosophical: Vinj "The End of Rainbows", "Deep in the Sky", to some extent "The Flame Above the Abyss", Shumil "The Tale of the Dragon".

Answer 25

Pavel Dmitriev. "It's not too late"
About how a contemporary with a laptop and an "avatar" on hard and with a Toyota Rav4 fell into the past - the USSR.