OK .. here are some books that influenced Mr. Parker ... not in any kind of order ... some of them are more 'kid level books' and some are more serious ...
Isaac Asimov - the Robot Series
Isaac Asimov - the Foundation Trilogy
Robert Rimmer - the Harrad Experiment [this is really orthogonal but lays some social ground work for ...]
Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Piers Anthony - Macroscope
Paul A. M. Dirac -The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Erwin Schrodinger - What is Life
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - The Phenomenon of Man
Valentin Turchin - The Phenomenon of Science
Alfred Lotka - Elements of Mathematical Biology
Freeman Dyson - Infinite in all Directions
K. Eric Drexler - Engines of Creation
Erving Goffman - Stigma
Edward O. Wilson - Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Vernor Vinge - Fire Upon the Deep
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -
Books that I really like:
Michael Flynn - In the Country of the Blind
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
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