Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Cyberpunk, near future and dystopias

Science fiction

Novels about networks, artificial intelligence, uploaded minds, biotechnology and the societies of the coming decades, from Gibson and Stephenson to Atwood and Robinson.

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  1. AccelerandoCharles Stross, 1900
  2. NeuromancerWilliam Gibson, 1984
  3. The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood, 1985
  4. Across RealtimeVernor Vinge, 1986
  5. ReplayKen Grimwood, 1986
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T4 Accelerando
Charles Stross · 1900
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NeuromancerNeuromancer
T4 Neuromancer
William Gibson · 1984
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The Handmaid's TaleThe Handmaid's Tale
T4 The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
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A dystopian novel set in Gilead, a patriarchal theocracy in near-future New England.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Samantha Wong

Across RealtimeAcross Realtime
T4 Across Realtime
Vernor Vinge · 1986
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Recommended by: Stewart Brand

ReplayReplay
T4 Replay
Ken Grimwood · 1986
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Recommended by: Noah Kagan

Jurassic ParkJurassic Park
T4 Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton · 1990
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Snow CrashSnow Crash
T4 Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 1992
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Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian and 12 others

Permutation CityPermutation City
T4 Permutation City
Greg Egan · 1994
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Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Naval Ravikant

DistressDistress
T4 Distress
Greg Egan · 1995
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Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The Diamond AgeThe Diamond Age
T4 The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson · 1995
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A novel of a nanotech future and a stolen copy of an interactive teaching book.

Recommended by: Andrew Chen, Bill Gurley, Ev Williams and 2 others

Diaspora: A NovelDiaspora: A Novel
T4 Diaspora: A Novel
Greg Egan · 1997
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Recommended by: Naval Ravikant

The PowerThe Power
T4 The Power
Naomi Alderman · 1998
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Recommended by: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Sophie Bakalar

Battle RoyaleBattle Royale
T4 Battle Royale
Kōshun Takami, Masayuki Taguchi, Koushun Takami, Kashoun Takami · 1999
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Recommended by: Patrick Collison

CryptonomiconCryptonomicon
T4 Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson · 1999
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A novel of wartime codebreakers and their descendants building a data haven.

Recommended by: Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and 1 other

The Light of Other DaysThe Light of Other Days
T4 The Light of Other Days
Arthur C. Clarke · 2000
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Recommended by: David Friedberg

Altered CarbonAltered Carbon
T4 Altered Carbon
Richard Morgan · 2002
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Recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Ryan Shea, Zooko Wilcox

FeedFeed
T4 Feed
M. T. Anderson · 2002
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Ready Player OneReady Player One
T4 Ready Player One
Ernest Cline · 2008
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A novel of a teenager hunting 1980s-themed puzzles in a virtual world for a fortune.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Astro Teller and 7 others

DaemonDaemon
T4 Daemon
Daniel Suarez · 2009
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A thriller about a computer program that runs on after its creator's death.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Alexis Ohanian and 2 others

The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal)The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal)
T4 The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal)
Greg Egan · 2011
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Recommended by: Patrick Collison

WoolWool
T4 Wool
Hugh Howey · 2011
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Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Ev Williams

The Dog StarsThe Dog Stars
T4 The Dog Stars
Peter Heller · 2012
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vNvN
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Madeline Ashby · 2012
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LexiconLexicon
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Max Barry · 2013
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The PeripheralThe Peripheral
T4 The Peripheral
William Gibson · 2014
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Recommended by: Brad Feld

CumulusCumulus
T4 Cumulus
Eliot Peper · 2016
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Dark MatterDark Matter
T4 Dark Matter
Blake Crouch · 2016
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Neon Fever Dream
T4 Neon Fever Dream
Eliot Peper · 2016
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A woman at Burning Man is pulled into unravelling a sinister mystery at its heart.

Recommended by: Brad Feld

AutonomousAutonomous
T4 Autonomous
Annalee Newitz · 2017
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Recommended by: Bertalan Meskó

An Absolutely Remarkable ThingAn Absolutely Remarkable Thing
T4 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green · 2018
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Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

Fall; or, Dodge in HellFall; or, Dodge in Hell
T4 Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson · 2019
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RecursionRecursion
T4 Recursion
Blake Crouch · 2019
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The TestamentsThe Testaments
T4 The Testaments
Margaret Atwood · 2019
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A Beautifully Foolish EndeavorA Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
T4 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Hank Green · 2020
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The Ministry for the FutureThe Ministry for the Future
T4 The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020
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Recommended by: Bill Gates

Blade RunnerBlade Runner
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Broken AngelsBroken Angels
T4 Broken Angels
Richard Morgan
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David Marusek
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GlasshouseGlasshouse
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Charles Stross
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Kill DecisionKill Decision
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Daniel Suarez
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Rainbows EndRainbows End
T4 Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
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A poet cured of Alzheimer's wakes in 2025 San Diego to a world of smart lenses.

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

SilverSilver
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Linda Nagata
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Chris Moriarty
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Spin StateSpin State
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Chris Moriarty
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The Cassini DivisionThe Cassini Division
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Ken MacLeod
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Ken MacLeod
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Ken MacLeod
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Ken MacLeod
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