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Vernor Vinge's "Across Realtime", "A Fire Upon the Deep", "A Deepness in the Sky", and "Rainbows End".

C. J. Cherryh's book "Cyteen", about attempts to replicate human personality.

Julia Jaynes' very strange book on the origins of consciousness. It's almost certainly wrong, but it's a very interesting kind of wrong, and a remarkable endeavour.

I can't walk three blocks in a new city without thinking of Jane Jacobs' book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"

Seymour Papert's amazing book "Mindstorms", which I think of as being about the design of powerful immersive environments for creative work