Wil Wheaton, well known geek and Star Trek actor, has listed his five most important books for geeks to read. Authors like Isacc Asimov and William Gibson have basically defined science fiction as we know it; while authors like Bruce Sterling have helped define a social sub-group. It’s a good list if you want to start understanding the hacker culture.
The article is also nice enough to link to one of the books (The Hacker Crackdown has been free for almost its entire life) and to a website of ascii porn… Nice of Wil to cover all of the geek bases for us.
‘The Martian Chronicles’ by Ray Bradbury started me on this journey. How ’bout you?
Jim