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Fun genre of writing: each chapter a different alternative on the same theme. * Alan Lightman, “Einstein’s Dreams”: varying definitions of time * Ken Liu, “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”: exotic forms of “books” (via

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The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species - Lightspeed Magazine

There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe. Not only are there perennial arguments about what qualifies as intelligence, but each moment and everywhere, civilizati...

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Jan 20, 2021

Stanislaw Lem, “Perfect Vacuum”. Every chapter a review of a nonexistent book.

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And “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino is probably the granddaddy of these

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Jan 20, 2021

Oh, and this, whose author is an AI researcher.

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I love that one!

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Yeah, I’m very fond of it. I love how you can dip in anywhere. I like the one where O just went awol, changed his outfit, told stories as a wandering bard, and that’s the Odyssey. Or the one where Athena propositioned him and he laughed.