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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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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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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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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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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76/ ha, ha, yes, I was going to get to this ! Very strange - humans on a completely alien planet ( are they even in our universe? geometry is weird and the stars seem impossible ) must drag their mobile city across the landscape.https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1331604112857833473 …
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77/ oh, crap, yes Tweet #72 in this sequence conflated two things. Ship of Fools is EXCELLENT, but I gave the DESCRIPTION of this novel instead (which is also recommended)https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1331604365031989248 …
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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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