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Charles Stross incorporates economics into a lot of his writing. His two related novels Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood are all about the economics of a p
by autarch 9y ago
Charles Stross incorporates economics into a lot of his writing. His two related novels Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood are all about the economics of a post-human society. The latter of the two has a really interesting take on crypto-currency.
His Merchant Princes series is all about how a dimensional travelers exploit lack of economic knowledge in parallel worlds with less developed economies.
And Halting State and Rule 34, two near future novels, both touch on economics and related themes quite a bit.
- cjsawyer 9y agoI had to check to see that your post wasn't a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(novel) Ha! That really goes to show how important it is to google your prospective name before you decide on anything.
- recursive 9y agoHow does it show that? The title is a reference to the popular rule of the internet.
- philipkglass 9y agoIt's deliberate. The author lurked on 4chan as background research for the novel: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/intervie... (See comments -- question 9, response by author 15)
- Jedd 9y agoI really enjoy reading Charlie's work, especially the speculation around transition societies. You can add Accelerando to the list of his works that include some serious consideration of economics (in a way that whilst reading you don't think, 'eww - economics' :) Actually, Singularity Sky also has a lot of good - and stealthy - economics material.
- gattr 9y agoI'd also mention P. F. Hamilton's "Fallen Dragon", where FTL travel is possible, colonization of a few nearby Earth-like planets has happened... but it's not economically viable after all, which leads to some twisted consequences.