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a16z Infra Reading List

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This is a list of books and authors that at least one member of the a16z infra team read and loved. It’s heavy on science fiction because sci-fi is the most infra-y literary genre: it’s about new technology, new systems, and the people who devote their lives to building and understanding them. We hope other infra people will like these books too! Please open a PR for any changes or additions here. Arrakis. Sand worms. The spice. Paul Muad’Dib. This is the series that brought epic sci-fi to the mainstream. It’s also one of the first series that demonstrated sci-fi should be taken seriously, in this case as an allegory for geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. In case you’ve only seen the (very well done) movies, do yourself a favor and read the books, which are infinitely deeper and more intricately plotted. The last three fast-forward several thousand years and get a little weird (in a good way!). Dick’s contribution to sci-fi is hard to overstate. All of his ~150 novels and short

a16z Infra Reading List 🌙 Dark a16z Infra Reading List This is a list of books and authors that at least one member of the a16z infra team read and loved. It’s heavy on science fiction because sci-fi is the most infra-y literary genre: it’s about new technology, new systems, and the people who devote their lives to building and understanding them. We hope other infra people will like these books too! Please open a PR for any changes or additions here . Table of Contents Sci-fi Must reads (S tier) Classics (A tier) Very good books (A tier) Also worth reading (B tier) Fantasy Non-fiction Sci-fi

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