On 22 March 2010 23:23, Max More <<a href="mailto:max@maxmore.com">max@maxmore.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s I read a huge amount of science<br>> fiction. I devoured everything written by Robert Heinlein and Philip K. Dick<br>
> (an odd combination), and an awful lot of Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg,<br>> and some Arthur C. Clark, among others. From the late 1980s, I read much<br>> less, but still kept up with some of the more interesting new writers. I've<br>
> read only a handful of SF novels and short story collections over the<br>> previous decade up to 2009, but started to take a fresh look at what was out<br>> there last year.<br><br>I am impressed with the very strong parallelism with my own story with SF... Only add to that Poul Anderson, whose implicit transhumanism and overhumanism is often underestimated.<br>
<br>> 2010:<br>> The John Varley Reader.<br>> Charles Stross, Singularity Sky.<br>> Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future.<br><br>From the top of my head I would recommend most (not all) of Greg Egan's books, plus<br>
<a style="" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rewired-Post-Cyberpunk-James-Patrick-Kelly/dp/1892391538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269359574&sr=8-1">Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology</a> <span class="ptBrand">by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel</span><span class="binding"></span>;<br>
and obviously<br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Transhuman-Mark-L-Van-Name/dp/141659146X/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269359508&sr=8-18">Transhuman</a> <span style="" class="ptBrand">by Mark L Van Name and T.K.F. Weisskopf</span><span class="binding"></span>.<br>
<br>The latter is a must, be it just for its title...<br> <br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br><br>