Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson
The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller
Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow
Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson
Newton's Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod
Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross

Great recommendations Aribeth. Can't wait to get to tackle some of these!

Pop 4 scifi

Nothing about "Stranger In A Strange Land"? That one changed my life.

1984 should certainly be on there.

Needs more Heinlein.

As well as douglas adams books

also michael moorcock

Huxley's Brave New World... Or am I straying off genre?

Rendezvous with Rama

2001

Le Petite Prince

misses books by Phlipp K. Dick. Ubik, Three Stigmatas of Palmer Eldricht (don't know exact title in English since I read it in Polish). best scifi writer ever.

Neuromancer

ratilfar, if you like Neuromancer may I suggest this

William Gibson’s Neuromancer – Technological Change and the Prospect of Progress

In recent times fantasy and science fiction genres have risen to great visual prominence. Yet despite their shared popular appeal, the two genres are different in several respects. To Arthur C. Clarke, such distinctions may be unhelpful, since ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Nonetheless, the defining feature of science fiction is that it does take place within the realm of the possible and, on occasion, the plausible...

Here is the direct link to the article

I read it, great article.