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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. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021

      A sample of scifi I read over the last year (in no order): All of the Expanse. It was kinda my escape. With the exception of Book 6, it was really fun. (Also funny how it crops up in weird places, like @sfiscience's InterPlanetary Festival.)

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    2. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021

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      Supernova Era. Outside of the first 20 pages or so, it was fantastically boring and if I were smarter, I wouldn't have finished it.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1327268795333787649 …

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      (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops @generativist
      This is from Cixin Liu's Supernova Era (which I otherwise don't recommend.) The 13ish year olds leaders of the world (all adults were dead) were trying to figure out how to maintain power. They decided cultural permeation is dominance.
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    3. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021

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      Children of Time. It had a kinda brutal vibe to it. But the scifi was cool. I need to get book 2.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1269396532458975232 …

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      (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops @generativist
      1/ There was this part I liked in a book I recently read (Children of Time) where (without giving things away) individuals could download knowledge, but they did so knowing it would come at the cost of some things they already knew, just not what, exactly.
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    4. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021

      (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops Retweeted Michael Nielsen

      The Planck Dive https://www.gregegan.net/PLANCK/Complete/Planck.html … I read it a long time ago, but @gregeganSF is re-readable. Kinda fun to think about in relation to the Feynmann uncertainty line, too.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1357586273586671618 …

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      Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen
      I empathize a lot with this. pic.twitter.com/w7DoQeYFcn
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    5. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021

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      @MorlockP's Aristillus Books 1 & 2. There were parts that seriously turned me off in that they felt gratuitously cruel. Ignoring those parts I enjoyed it a lot. It gets a lot of comparisons to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which makes sense.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1316178206534168577 …

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      @MorlockP defecting conscious shards from p.188-189 is a cool idea
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Feb 2021
      Replying to @generativist

      cruel, really? Gosh. I consciously tried to avoid such, because I hate such things in books that I read. What parts?

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    7. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      The AAS parts. I'm generally fine with the sorta Randian Romanticism that uses caricatures for punctuation — not even as an indulgence, but as a useful contrast device. But those bits felt needlessly cruel to me and detracted from the story. Absent them, I'd endorse with ease

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Feb 2021
      Replying to @generativist

      hmm ... physically cruel, because people got hurt, or morally cruel, because the narrative looked down on them ?

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    9. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      Definitely not the former, but only partially the latter? Like, reducing politicians to the worst of what they are is coherent to me. Both in terms of narrative and what you believe and where we overlap and how things work. Whereas the AAS stuff felt proportionally at out whack.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Feb 2021
      Replying to @generativist

      huh I actually toned both the politician scenes and the AAS scenes down from what I felt was likely / already becoming normalized in the US, because I thought presenting things realistically would be read as overly partisan, so I tried to be OVERLY sympathetic.

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        2. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          I think the politician scenes worked well — esp the smarter senator's machinations (can't remember her name). The college kid journalist ones were especially good. The redemptive ark for one was good. And the Senator son one felt timely.

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        3. (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops‏ @generativist 6 Feb 2021
          Replying to @generativist @MorlockP

          It didn't come off as partisan to me. Like, you take shots at downstream-of-Dems because your thesis is they Win and become single-party rule, then fall to excess. To me that's ideologically-driven (like most books) but def not partisan. And you live here so it made sense.

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