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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 25 Nov 2020

      59/ Little Fuzzy, H Beam Piper First contact story with, may Allah forgive me, furries.

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

      60/ The Rolling Stones, Robert Heinlein (YA) A three generation family from Free Luna (the grandmother is an all-grown-up-now Hazel Stone from TMiaHM !) buy a spaceship and set out on adventures / profit seeking businesses.

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

      61/ Emerald Eyes / The Long Run / The Last Dancer by Daniel Keyes Moran. A very convincing 21st century where individual autonomy is slowly giving way to the logic of centralization. Three books in an insanely audacious [ unfinished ] future history of 33 that he mapped out

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

      62/ Flinx in Flux, Alan Dean Foster. A fun series in a galaxy populated with dozens of sentient species.

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

      63/ A Boy and his Dog, Harlan Ellison he's a good dog, Bront

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

      as a side note, I'm looking at list of Hugo award winning novels, and it breaks my heart how the SJWs have corrupted this it used to be awarded, 19 times out of 20, to insanely good novels that altered and improved the genre forever ; now it's all woke trash awarded by entryists

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

      64/ Cowboy Angels, Paul Mcauley A little known work that posits cross time gates ... and US foreign policy inevitably has opinions about Similar Americas. Not absolutely amazing as a novel, but I keep coming back to the concept.

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

      65/ Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling 1980s cyberpunk, and, yes, I'm sure I'm listing so many of these because "the golden age of science fiction is 13", but also - there was something in the water then - a golden age two human cultures (cyborg vs biohackers) battle for solar system

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

      66/ The Difference Engine (Sterling, Gibson) The single novel that created steampunk. Alt history where Babbage built his Difference Engine. Novel didn't quite cohere or pay off perfectly, but still worth reading. The Macguffin may tie into Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ( ??)

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

      67/ Startide Rising, David Brin Brin might have been a complete cock the one time I met him, but his Uplift universe was great. Galactic civilization, gene hacking animals to give them intelligence ( this is the trope I stole for the Dogs in my novels ).

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

      68/ Singularity Sky, Charles Stross A future warblogger encounters omnipotent AI, time travel, posthumans, and more. Stross dumped 20 years of ideas into this + sequel, and it's overflowing. avoid Accelerando (the economic ideas of which I mock in passing in my novels)

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

          69/ Fallen Angels by Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn Lightweight fan-service, hitting all of the "rah, rah SCIENCE!" and "space travel good, greens bad!" talking points of the in crowd...but fun, if you like that sort of thing.

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

          70/ Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn A medieval European village encounters cross-universe travelling aliens. Philosophy, science, and theology ensue.

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

          71/ The January Dancer, Up Jim River, etc. by Michael Flynn Small scale interstellar spy adventure, set in a background that explicates Flynn's great ideas about cultural evolution, facts becoming narrative becoming myth, and the fragility of the scientific method

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

          72/ Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo. A slow scale disaster on a large space ship, as human nature does what human nature always does: destroys us by our own hands.

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

          73/ The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin explores free will and Daoism in a story about a man who can dream the world into changing itself

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

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          74/ Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach. More or less created the modern left-environmentalist Cascadia secessionist movement. Certainly an influence on the later Pacific Edgehttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1331346992849620998 …

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

          75/ Foundation by Isaac Asimov Asimov's reputation diminishes as time passes, for 2 reasons, 1 good, 1 bad. The valid reason is that his stories were so so and his characters were cardboard. The invalid reason is the "trope creator" problem - seems old hat bc he CREATED stuff

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

          Foundation was hugely influential on, for example, the NYT's Paul Krugman, so it's important to understand it

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

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          ok, gotta work on writing my homesteading books BTW, if you like the kind of SF novels I discuss in this thread, check out my own novelshttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1303047090399055875 …

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          1/ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Better than 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' " -Amazon I wrote 2 novels about AI, uplifted dogs, markets, guns, lunar colonization #1 won the Prometheus "best novel" award in 2018 #2 won the same award in 2019 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JPPMS6 … https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B5283G2 … pic.twitter.com/5guDVx2XfK
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Nov 2020

          76/ The Postman, by David Brin. Better than the movie. In some ways a rebuttal to right wing prepper fiction (scientists are good guys, preppers are bad guys), but Brin hilariously has a minor subplot where scientists fake an oracle AI to give the stupid normies farming advice

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

          77/ The Star Fraction and "sequels" by Ken Macleod. Like KSR's Three Californias, it presents different possible futures. Very political, in a libertarian / Trotskyist (!!!) direction.

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

          78/ Newton's Wake, by Ken Macleod. After the singularity, those left behind try to figure out the world.

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

          79/ The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi. Another post Singularity novel which, I confess, I didn't 100% understand. I need to go back and re-read it and its sequels. Very intense, and doing something very new and different.

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

          80/ Permutation City by Greg Egan. Infinite life inside an infinite simulation leads to some very weird social patterns.

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