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Greg Egan wrote a good short story with a related premise: a pathologist investigating evidence discovers the DNA is formed of novel bases. It's called 'The Moa

• simias 8y ago
  >The whole collection deserves a content warning I'm not sure what you mean by that. Who needs to be warned and of what? Thank you for the recommendation though, there's never too much sci-fi to read as far as I'm concerned.
  • baq 8y ago
    Having read that compilation it deserves M for Mature.
  • eurg 8y ago
    ETA: Seems this was meant to be a different kind of content warning. Whatever. --- I don't know that specific series, but Greg Egan thinks ideas further than usual in entertainment, usually ends on a note that's neither down nor up, but nondescript and even nihilistic toward normal-human values, like setting yourself into an endless loop of trivial emotional experience of no more than a few seconds content in re. The author often plays with minds like that. Depending on your make-up, you could interpret the described personas as tortured people, or free, or ... whatever. Somewhat Camus-like. Just with hard sci-fi.
  • MatthewWilkes 8y ago
    Like Black Mirror, many of the plot lines are distressing. As it's a collection of short stories, being specific about what the particular things are ruins plot devices. It's not a book to read to cheer yourself up. It's interesting and clever, but I don't feel comfortable unreservedly recommending it to people I don't know. Hence the warning, it's so people who know that they're sensitive to difficult topics, either in general or right now, don't go ploughing in unawares.