70/ Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn A medieval European village encounters cross-universe travelling aliens. Philosophy, science, and theology ensue.
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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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Foundation was hugely influential on, for example, the NYT's Paul Krugman, so it's important to understand it
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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
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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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