Re:Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock
by tech2 on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:19AM
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I loved Permutation City. Have you read anything of the Orthogonal series by Egan? The Clockwork Rocket bent my mind and feels like harder sci-fi still.
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Re:Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock
by isoprophlex on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:05AM
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Yeah, agreed, the same goes for "dichronauts". Sci fi so hard it cuts diamonds.
I read almost everything Egan published. While I love his work dearly, I've had very poor success with introducing people to his "alternative physics" stories (where he takes some law, flips a sign somewhere and rolls with the consequences [])... it's TOO hard. Not everyone likes a sci fi book that requires readers to follow along with pen and paper. So I always first recommend Permutation City, or maybe the short story collections such as "axiomatic"...