[zgotsch]

I've given out several copies of "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson and "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang.

[thedudemabry]

Ted Chiang's short story collection is the most concentrated dose of fantastic sci-fi/fantasy I've read. Each story is brief, memorable, and plays with at least one neat "what if?"

I've also given out a couple of copies because it's a great way to demonstrate SF&F genre awesomeness to the sceptical in just a few pages.

[nl]

Everyone should read Ted Chiang.

https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the...

[joelhooks]

I've given about 30 copies of Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome. It's wonderful.

edit: whoops meant to reply to OP

[netcraft]

I will probably give _Seveneves_ this christmas.