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Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.
It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412
(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).
For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127
#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast
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I'll have to reread Snow Crash as I'm beginning to think it was prescient as to where the US is heading.
In the book the US has collapsed into various fiefdoms run by corporate entities and mafias. The Feds are just another organisation amongst others.
Well worth a read - the book is fizzing with ideas.
What was slightly disturbing was thinking which current billionaire maps the closest to L Bob Rife.
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Good overview of Torment Nexus concept. In the end, sci-fi doesn’t teach people to be evil. It simply amplifies today’s evil with tomorrow’s technology.
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #tormentnexus #sciencefiction #AI #space #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork #neilstephenson #isaacasimov #matrix #robertheinlein #williamgibson #philipkdick #cyberpunk #bladerunner #dystopian #musk #thiel
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@bascule didn't #NeilStephenson publish #Zodiac quite a long while ago? It tells you how to perform various acts of #EcoTerrorism and does it with a great storyline as well!
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I guess it was inevitable... A startup that claims to be putting sulfur into the stratosphere as #geoengineering to mitigate climate change. Oversight is minimal at best.
If this reminds you of the plot of Neal Stephenson's recent novel Termination Shock, apparently that's not an accident.
https://gizmodo.com/make-sunsets-solar-geoengineering-sulfur-climate-change-1849931460
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'Metaverse’ a top 3 contender for Oxford’s Word of the Year - Oxford University has opened public voting for the first time wit... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/metaverse-a-top-3-contender-for-oxford-s-word-of-the-year #oxforduniversitypress #oxforduniversity #neilstephenson #virtualreality #markzuckerberg #dictionary #susiedent #mckinsey #facebook #citi #meta
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@niconiconi if you're curious what upload is like, _FALL_ is a well-researched and incredibly gripping #SciFi (spec fiction) novel from the perspective of an uploaded consciousness and some of the variants on that consciousness that evolve and cooperate/compete with each other in that #cloud of bits and bytes, server farms, and quantum computers.
#upload #NeilStephenson #singularity #Miasma #metaverse