People have already mentioned Foundation, Stranger in a Strange Land, Discworld, Gurren Lagann, and Hitchhiker’s Guide, so I’ll add The Illuminatus Trilogy. It taught me a lot about how organizations tend to shake out, among other things.
Robert Anton Wilson had a certain genius for distilling so many slivers of truth embedded in conspiracy, paradigms, altered states of consciousness, personal and group psychology, systems, etc. After theTrilogy I readPrometheus Rising and that book blew my young little mind.
People have already mentioned Foundation, Stranger in a Strange Land, Discworld, Gurren Lagann, and Hitchhiker’s Guide, so I’ll add The Illuminatus Trilogy. It taught me a lot about how organizations tend to shake out, among other things.
Robert Anton Wilson had a certain genius for distilling so many slivers of truth embedded in conspiracy, paradigms, altered states of consciousness, personal and group psychology, systems, etc. After theTrilogy I readPrometheus Rising and that book blew my young little mind.
I make a habit of buying and gifting Illuminatus and Prometheus Rising whenever I find them for cheap