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Vernon Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky". Includes very well put thoughts on the far future of software. Also his "A Fire Upon the Deep" with a fascinating take o
by gattr 7y ago
Vernon Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky". Includes very well put thoughts on the far future of software. Also his "A Fire Upon the Deep" with a fascinating take on AI, cryptography and more in a slightly alternative universe.
- scrumper 7y ago[Mild spoiler] I would love it if that series ever got finished. We're stuck on Tines world with the blight's remnant fleet approaching...
- gattr 7y agoFor me, I would like to have the Focus available, lock up a few hundred volunteers somewhere for a few months and have thew rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust or something... "A Fire Upon the Deep" and its differentiation are referenced in this interesting article [0]. [0] https://ristret.com/s/qk8wpt/philosophy_computational_complexity https://ristret.com/s/qk8wpt/philosophy_computational_comple...
- ak217 7y agoI think Vinge is a genius in these two novels. Great stories, rich environments, superb hard sci-fi, good social commentary, and no magical leaps of faith (aside from the central plot device of A Fire upon the Deep, which is completely up front, rationalistic, clever and exciting). I haven't really found Vinge's match, although Stephenson comes close. Most other authors in the genre are hard to read for me. They write gimmicks, or obsess over making plot devices out of memes, or never manage to make it past a collection of sketches, much less build a coherent universe.