Help with my literature search?

[ashnistrike]

As part of the follow-up to a strongly worded suggestion that I need more publications, soon, I'm putting together a theoretical paper on the influence of fiction on people's attitudes toward nanotechnology.  Alas, my general default is to read science fiction where the sciences involved are social--my familiarity with current hard SF is woefully behind.  Stross and Vinge are obvious, and of course I've already complained about Crichton.  I'm familiar with (and adore) Elizabeth Bear's books, many of which involve Sufficiently Advanced Technology.  What else should I be reading, or at least citing, as heavily contributing to people's visions/opinions of the nano-influenced future? 

Bonus points for books/stories that clearly argue for the positive or negative nature of the technologies, although I also need some relatively ambiguous worlds.  Bonus bonus points for popular fiction other than Crichton that includes nano components.

Comments

[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

Not a recommendation, technically, but I searched Amazon for books with the tag "nanotechnology" and here they are.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of Stephenson and the other Bear, thank you.

a maybe

[redbird]

There's some stuff in Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution books, though that's more about AI--but the AI "fast folk" in The Stone Canal overlap nanotech, I think, and somewhere in that set of books is stuff about people building tiny difference engines to do their computing because they're afraid that any electronic computer will be taken over by evil enemy AIs.

Re: a maybe

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Could be useful.

[page-of-swords.livejournal.com]

You know with my Nursing Research class I had some questions for you when I am visiting about the Phd level and publishing

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

No problem, remind me next week. Also, it looks like we'll be just in time for a nifty glass-making exhibit at MSI.

Nanotech is here again

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Walter Jon Williams Aristoi.

Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age.

Re: Nanotech is here again

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Thank you.