Sun of Suns
It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances...
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- Blood Music - Greg Bear
Accelerando - Charlie Stross
Psychohistorical Crisis - Donald Kingsbury (assuming you have already read Asimov's Foundation series)
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Chung Kuo, the Middle Kingdom - David Wingrove
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
Neutron Star - Larry Niven
Existence - David Brin
The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert
The Space Merchants - Pohl and Kornbluth
Sun of Suns - Karl Schroeder
All the Traps of Earth - Clifford Simak
Test of Fire - Ben Bova
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
- In his book Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder discusses an entity who is neither a physical person nor an AI; he's the product of a "game church", where people join up and take shifts beating out a heartbeat, or sending nerve signals to other people in response to signals they receive, and an intelligent entity emerges from that, despite the fact that none of the people are making decisions for that entity. Sort of a Chinese room thing.
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