Books: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Blindsight by Peter Watts Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson A Fire Upon the Deep by Verner Vinge The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin