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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78/ The Girl Who Owned a City, O. T. Nelson A YA apocalyptic novel where a plague kills all of the adults and a 12 year old girl must organize a defense of the children she protects from rival gangs who try to steal their food. Libertarianism smuggled in. Formative for me.
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79/ Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson. Huge crystal monuments start appearing, sent from the future, and documenting the battles fought by a near future warlord as he takes over the planet. The chronoliths inspire the battles and wars they document. But...
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80/ Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes (no relation to Daniel Keyes Moran in #61 in this thread). A heart breaking story about intelligence. Relevant to Freddie deBoer's recent non-fiction writings on intelligence, poverty, etc.
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ok for real now I need to write on my own projects TTYL
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