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Re:Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020? by codq on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:09PM (#25317343)
'Exhalation' is a revelation, and reminded me how good fiction could be.

The first story in the collection, 'The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate', instantly rose to the top of my all time favorite short stories.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020? by enan on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:42PM (#25318682)
Yeah that was my favorite as well. And the one about perfect recall memory (remem) was perfect too. He's so good at examining all human implications of a single technological idea. And the prose is quite remarkable for sci-fi.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020? by jelliclesfarm on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:17PM (#25317411)
Concur. That’s the kind of writing that makes me want to sit down and write myself.
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