Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts

[Ithuriel]

There's a big chunk of supplementary material available on his blog (and stuff linked from there) that is also quite interesting, if you've not already seen it.

http://www.tor.com/2014/07/29/the-colonel-peter-watts/
http://rifters.com/echopraxia/recruiter.htm
http://rifters.com/echopraxia/enemywithin.htm
http://www.rifters.com/real/progress.htm
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5875
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/Peter...dnotes.pdf

Probably more, too.