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Re:YC's Winter Reading List by maxerickson on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:03PM (#13162376)
A lot of people get their fantasy fix from science fiction.

(this is my favorite place to apply the Arthur C. Clarke quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", whether he meant it that way or not)

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Re:YC's Winter Reading List by icebraining on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:36PM (#13162657)
And not just the technology; I mean, what's Arrakis if not a fantasy world?
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Re:YC's Winter Reading List by astrange on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:09PM (#13163918)
The older hard science fiction missed almost all its guesses - just look at all those spaceships - so it's better as pure fantasy than anything else.

I feel like I could've learned a lot more about society if I'd read more non-"genre fiction" books and not all those Larry Niven stories where everyone just trades facts about particle physics as conversation.

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