- Richard Boyd
The Metaversial Minute December 2022
Read these books for foundational ideas about the Metaverse.
Fiction Titles | Non-Fiction Titles |
Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card About a boy, his gaming acumen, and the fate of the universe that ultimately rests in his hands | The End of Education Neil Postman Redefining the value of school |
Rainbows End Vernor Vinge Impending human augmentation through technology. Also a good suspense/mystery story. | The Singularity is Near Ray Kurzweil Explores Ray’s concepts of what will happen once machines exceed human intelligence |
Halting State Charles Stross Crime in a massive multiplayer online game | The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything Matthew Ball |
Ready Player One Ernest Cline Dystopian future world novel that describes an online virtual world education environment. Great for 80s arcade nostalgia fans | The Virtus VRML Toolkit David Smith, Richard Boyd, Alan Scott |
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The origin of the metaverse and cyberpunk movements. | How To Be A God: A Guide For Would-Be Deities Richard Bartle |
Diamond Age Neal Stephenson Read for the concept of the Young Lady’s Illustrated primer | |
Neuromancer William Gibson The origin of cyberspace as a construct is also one of the original cyberpunk novels. | |
Daemon Daniel Suarez A game developer dies but sets free a daemon AI that begins to take control of the world. Good visualizations of augmented reality interfaces | |
Freedom TM Daniel Suarez Sequel to Daemon | |
Old Man's War John Scalzi At 70 years old, you sign up for interstellar war, get a new body and a brain pal. | |