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  Pigs in Cyberspace

  A short story about human life post-singularity by Hans Morovec

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  No One Belongs Here More Than You

  A collection of short stories by artist/author/director Miranda July

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  A Sand County Almanac

  Vingettes by the father of wildlife ecology in America, Aldo Leopold

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  Between the World and Me

  An exploration of life in America as a black man by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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  The Machine Stops

  Eeriely accurate science "fiction" from 1909 by E. M. Forster

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  Desert Solitaire

  Reflections and stories from a season in the wilderness by Edward Abbey

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  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

  Legendary American poet Maya Angelou's autobiography

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  You are Not a Gadget

  Digital humanism in historical and future contexts by Jaron Lanier