Reading Material

Below is a list of recommended reading

Recommended by playfuleye

 * Doctorow, Cory. Down and Out in the Magic Kingd​om. Available for free download from the author's website in pretty much every format available.

Recommended by mamalai

 * Burroughs, Edgar Rice: The Barsoom Novels. Edwardian sci-fi pulp taking place on Mars, a dying planet, and featuring a displaced Civil War veteran. Start with A Princess of Mars. The entire series is available for free on Amazon if you have a Kindle.
 * Kirby, Jack: New Gods. Yes, it's a comic book series from the 1970s, but it's still good.
 * Orwell, George: 1984.The definitive authoritarian government book. Big Brother is watching.

Recommended by Liz

 * Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Game. Available in pdf format here.
 * Clarke, Arthur C., The City and the Stars.
 * Clarke, Arthur C., The Space Odyssey Series. Especially 2010: Odyssey Two and 2061: Odyssey Three, but it is recommended to read them in order (a side note about 2001, for those unfamiliar: the book slightly differs in setting than the movie, and 2010, as a sequel, is drawn from the movie's events).
 * Heinlein, Robert A., Starship Troopers.