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Re:The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how sci... by BLKNSLVR on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:41AM (#27928216)
Quarantine by Greg Egan: https://www.gregegan.net/QUARANTINE/Quarantine.html

Upon re-reading your question, I don't think this recommendation exactly fits, but, damn, it's a good book anyway and Neal Stephenson doesn't do things by halves: Interface by Neal Stephenson (under a pseudonym and in conjunction with another author also using a pseudonym). This book only becomes more relevant with each presidential campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(novel)

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Re:The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how sci... by JadeNB on Friday July 23, 2021 @08:00AM (#27929721)
Greg Egan in general is a solid recommendation for diamond-hard sci-fi; I actually think Quarantine is one of the weakest in this respect, though it's a fantastic book. Who else would think to write a series of books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan#Orthogonal_trilogy) about what would happen if you flipped a sign in the Lorentzian metric?
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