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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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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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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78/ Newton's Wake, by Ken Macleod. After the singularity, those left behind try to figure out the world.
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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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80/ Permutation City by Greg Egan. Infinite life inside an infinite simulation leads to some very weird social patterns.
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TBF, what PK like about Foundation was the idea of an elite centrally planning an empire, based on Economics (that's what "psychohistory" is), or —in its more common name— Marxism-Leninism. Being smart, PK knew saying "Marx" in the 90s was a no-no, while Asimov gave nerd cred.
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