"... What you have decided to do is to create new races. Seven new races. They will be separate and distinct forever ..." -- Neal Stephenson, Seveneves ...
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This book's ending fizzled to nothing, but it had a couple fun concepts. That and "Amistics", the study of how cultures choose which technologies to utilize and which to abandon, were good thoughts. I enjoyed the colonization of an asteroid belt. He created a founding myth, too.
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I recently finished Fall and it has similar Genesis type themes. Worth reading if you enjoyed Cryptonomicon.
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What I love is the obligatory bit in Act 3 where one character either says or thinks that pre-collapse racism was both bad and false...and then we get 400 pages of Racial Essentialism in the year 7,000 AD. So beautiful.
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I’m reminded of his argument for Midwestern culture in The Diamond Age: https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/the-diamond-age/ …
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Genesis is a story of ever increasing separation. God from not God, light from dark, sea from land, living from non living, plant from animal, human from animal, male from female... there's no reason for it to stop. Cain from Seth, Hebrews from Gentiles...
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Can't have biblical motifs without racism, and if you do without them you're trying to create literature without reference to a foundational text.
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I wonder what
#AngloTwitter will embrace? The Germanic side, all blonde hair and blue eyes? Or take after the Noldor (and our Yamnayan ancestors?), with dark hair and greys eyes?
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