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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      21/ The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Somewhat dated, but given that they're really about human nature, not rockets or Mars, still perfectly timely. Read them, as with all Bradbury, as if they're poetry.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      22/ The Alien Years, by Silverberg. Inscrutable aliens arrive, do things. Humans try to deal, and ... kind of do? Kind of don't. In the end, the aliens are revealed to be ... quite alien.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      23/ The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison. Light hearted fun.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      24/ The Steel Beach by John Varley. After the aliens kick us off Earth, the center of human civilization is the moon ...but with long life and near infinite wealth, how do we avoid boring ourselves to tears?

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      ... more later ; need to get some writing done on "Escape the City"https://escapefromthecity.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders …

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      25/ Lucifer's Hammer, by Niven and Pournelle - the single best apocalypse / prepper novel ever written, with massive doses of Heinlein Competent Man trope

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      26/ The Last Centurion, by John Ringo. Another apocalypse / prepper novel, and it doesn't suffer from most of the @hradzka "Oh, John Ringo, no!" flaws

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      27/ Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson. A tiny tiny bit dated now, but still a great exploration of memes, burbs, post-Westphalian systems, phyles, and more.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      28/ Metropolitan, by Walter Jon Williams. Hard to say if it's really SF, or some sort of urban fantasy, but it's a political novel set in a dieselpunk city that spans a world. Weird, and very good.

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      29/ Dune, by Herbert, of course. Galactic Empires had been done before, but he was the first to do it seriously, and make us take it seriously. Also a very early entry in "ecological SF". Laid down the universe and tone that WH40k expanded on.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

      30/ The Draka series, by S.M. Stirling. Ripping mil SF if a cruel, imaginative alt history.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          31/ Kiteworld by Keith Roberts. Set either in a future of this world, or - I think - an alternate sister world to ours, it follows a priesthood of kite riders who defend the borders of their realm from demons that may be weird technological incursions.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          32/ Downbelow Station C. J. Cherryh, follows politics at a vast space station / border town as political provocations between two superpowers turn into open war.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          33/ Timescape, by Gregory Benford. A cross-time-communication thriller combined with ecothriller.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          34/ Starship Troopers, by Heinlein. The great granddaddy of mil SF, which has only been equaled once. Almost everything else that follows in its footsteps gives the adventure, without any of the introspection.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          35/ The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. A response and rebuttal to Starship Troopers, and the only mil SF novel to ever equal or perhaps even exceed it, on its own terms.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          36/ Dhalgren, by Samuel Delaney. I hated it, and I didn't finish it, but there's something going on there.

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          37/ There are Doors, by Gene Wolfe. Perhaps the easiest onramp to the often challenging master. Multiple universes, doors between then, maybe a goddess.

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          38/ The World Next Door, Brad Ferguson. Set in an alternate history where World War III happened in the late 1960s, the children and grandchildren of the survivors, living a relatively placid agrarian existence, start to have dreams, dreams with lyrics from our universe...

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          39/ Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson. Part of a triptych of three novels, each set 30 years in the future in the same California town, but in three very different futures.

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          40/ Hyperion, Dan Simmons. The Canterbury Tales, in the future, when three factions of AIs are plotting against humans, but we don't know it and are more concerned with a time travelling murder both protecting time tombs. ...but then it gets weird.

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          ok, back to writing the homesteading book more later

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          41/ A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. A meditation on human nature, sin, the cyclical nature of history, all in the context of recovering lost science 1,000 years after a nuclear war.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          42/ Souls in the Great Machine, by Sean McMullen. very odd post apocalyptic novel where the exact nature of the apocalypse is unclear, but the remnant orbiting weapons can still be seen with the naked eye, and the mutated sea mammals still use their Call to lure humans to doom

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          43/ Orion Shall Rise, by Poul Anderson. Again, set a thousand years after the nuclear war. There are several interestingly evolved future cultures, all vying for supremacy. I need to reread this.

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          44/ Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams. Great cyberpunk-ish smuggling tale.

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          45/ Deep Drive by Alexander Jablokov. The solar system has been visited by dozens of aliens, but they won't sell humans the technology to travel to the stars. Intrigue happens.

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          46/ Farewell Horizontal by K. W. Jeter. A very weird setting that haunts the entire tale: everything takes place on the outside of a very (infinitely ?) tall building.

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          47/ Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress. In a near future where a fraction of 1% of people produce 99% of the value, and everyone else lives off of welfare which they "earn" by voting, what responsibility does the 1% have for the others? Nancy answers the question incorrectly.

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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          48/ Red Mars, etc. trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. An epic tale of teraforming, politics, and ecoterrorism.

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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lawyer Dog

          Espedair Street, oh, wait, that's by Iain Banks, not Iain M Bankshttps://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1331355477897166850 …

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          Care to call out your favorite Iain M. Banks in this thread?
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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          49/ Against a Dark Background, by Iain M Banks. A stand alone novel, outside of his culture universe, set in a world that is far far far from any galaxies, and which therefore is trapped in tens or hundreds of thousands of years of rise-and-fall-and-rise history

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          50/ and speaking of endless cycles The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle. Best first contact novel ever, IMO. I s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ pay homage to one particular scene in Aristillus 4.

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Nov 2020

          ok, need to write at 4,242 words today and would love to hit 5k

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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Hmmm Bot

          51/ Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynoldshttps://twitter.com/hmmm_bot/status/1331448131624579073 …

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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          52/ Neuromancer, William Gibson I just re-read it a year ago, and it's an entirely different novel when read at 49 than at 13 or so. An absolute classic of cyberpunk / ennui / Beat

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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          53/ The World Inside, Robert Silverberg Yet another 1960s/70s overpopulation tale, an adult counterpart to the YA This Time of Darkness, but without the hope. A good view into a future culture entirely unlike our own.

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        28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          54/ Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad 1969 media mogul Donald Trump's son Barron Trump, uncovers a future adenochrome conspiracy by the pedo elite. I...am only 20% joking.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_Jack_Barron …

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        29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          55/ The Snow Queen, by Joan D Vinge (ex wife of fellow SF great Vernor Vinge). Two human cultures alternate ruling a single planet on a 300 year cycle, as the climate oscilates, one high tech, one low.

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        30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          56/ Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park Another in the "cyclical history" subgenre. On a world where seasons last for decades or centuries, it seems that all of this has happened before.

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        31. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          57/ Helliconia Spring / Summer / Winter by Brian Aldiss. Yet another entry in the "long seasons / cyclical history" subgenre. Against the background of this subgenre, Martin's failure to do much of interest w the variable seasons in his Throne series is damning.

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