looking for recs that are scifi books which incorporate real computer science or programming, and/or economics chicanery. examples: wjw dagmar shaw series, scalzi lock-in, neal's snow crash and diamond age.
this short story was in an anthology and floored me. but her other work seems like it's fantasy not scifi. any recs for stories or books with similar themes to this awesome short?
how is going with the flow different from complacency in the face of destructive forces? a sage would weigh alternatives and choose not to take either side of extremes, versus ppl who don't bother with educating themselves and neglect to pick a side because their selfishness narrows their worldview. are both cowardice?
'one "playa" to another' at ghe betrayal party.
but Why pfh?! Whyyyy
count to a trillion: first book is a fave: action, romance, politics, and every type of math ever invented, nearly!
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but the sequel is very different. i'm getting bogged down in ppl recalling millenia of history, and im almost half through the book. does this historical summary continue forever, or does it get better?
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i'd like to finish this long series but not unless the story improves. anyone finished "countdown to eschaton sequence"?
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for those who don't know his work, you might be familiar with the author from his "golden age" trilogy of far future scifi.
first i read "touch" but wasnt impressed, it was too much a formulaic action thriller with one big twist. then i started "slow gods" which seemed much more my kind of story. i'm surprised at how different these two books are. Does anyone else feel like slow gods is reminiscent of iain m banks culture series? or is it just that peter kenny's narration makes me draw a connection not present only in the text?
i'm not done yet with slow gods, it's dense with activity, yet makes room for characterisation, and is huge in scope. what other claire north titles do you rec?
i'm halfway through nagel and newman's book "godel's proof" at the point where godel numbers for formulas are substituting back into the formula? the notation is confusing. i feel like it's just recursion but something's not clicking. any videos or interactive web apps you know of that make these subtleties more clear? thx!
reread blindsight a month ago, this time actually followed it up with the sequel, about halfway done.
i'm pretty sure watts accepted a dare or wager which went like: "bet you cant write a hard sf story that includes vampires" and he went: "i'll see your vampires and raise you zombies and aliens" opponent: "fold fold god help us i fold!"
just read "simulacron-3" and enjoyed it, particularly the fast paced, sometimes corny style reminded me of "the demolished man" by bester. do any other short books or novellas come to your mind, written with that same hightened-energy mid-20th-century style?