Ask HN: What book changed the way you think about almost everything?

My top pick would be Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb. In fiction, would be Charles Stross's Accelerando. One teached me how little I really know and how small things can become big ones, the other, how fast things could happen.

This sounds a bit strange, I think, but for me it was Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End". It totally shifted the way I look at humanity and society.

The more time passes, the more pertinent that book seems to become.

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