I find much of science fiction to be insufferable fantasy even when people think it is hard sci-fi.

Why? Because when you understand bitcoin and the basics of economics, the worlds that are described are more absurd than portal guns. Tell me to believe in a portal gun, and I can do it, but tell me to imagine a futuristic world without sound money, or unnatural expansion beyond Earth that does not follow from economic interest, and I cannot suspend disbelief.

Bitcoin of course fixes this as new books will be written anchored in a plausible reality. Until then, a bitcoiner subset of such a list is worth providing.