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What are you Reading (September 2023) (i.imgur.com)
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Aside from Project Hail Mary which I assume every /c/sciencefiction subscriber is going to read what have you been reading or plan to read?

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (August 2023)

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Snowcrash: pleasantly surprised by the quality of the world building, which I love.

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s amazing how many things he’s predicted (or noticed and predicted would become mainstream) over the years.

Bitcoin, metaverse, the importance of cryptography in modern IT, monetized streaming video, …

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Seriously though. They fucking called it, unironically, the metaverse. That's a coined ass phrase. Distopian from the beginning. Weird choice on Meta's part haha.

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Diamond Age next!

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good idea! Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have enjoyed all of his works. The Baroque Cycle took me a few tries to get into before I stuck it out; great read but man is it long and dry at times. Anathem was challenging because of the new lexicon he introduced.

My favorites are snowcrash, seveneves, termination shock, and cryptonomicon in roughly that order.

[–] mwgreatest@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago)