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I'm not cstross, but you could check out Greg Egan. He's got a number of stories set in universes that don't even have the same number of dimensions as ours (4
by jerf 7y ago
I'm not cstross, but you could check out Greg Egan. He's got a number of stories set in universes that don't even have the same number of dimensions as ours (4 spatial dimensions, zero time dimensions, or 2 spatial dimensions, 2 time dimensions), where this deeply matters and directly impacts the plots, and all the mathematics is deeply worked out for these sorts of universes and also impacts the plot. See, for instance, https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html , and all the pages it links to. And that's just an example, there are some "lighter weight" ones that under normal circumstances would still be considered fairly "heavy", just not as heavy as literally working out how General Relativity works in different numbers of dimensions for the story.
His politics I would estimate as reasonably similar to the HN gestalt.
- shkkmo 7y agoThanks, I always appreciate having authors recommended. I read all kinds of SF regardless of politics and scientific accuracy. I often find authors whose politics I don't agree with give me the most insight into other ways of seeing and understanding the world. I just love the idea of orbital mechanics, coriolis effects and zero g environments as plot points. I also wish there were SF video games that utilized a mundane SF solar system as a setting.
- jerf 7y agoI read widely without much regard for politics (as long as the story is not simply a disguised political polemic, which I've come to find boring even if I nominally agree with it), but I was just trying to answer the question as asked. Only perhaps a couple of his stories start to get into polemic territory, and even that, let me emphasize, "start"; none of them that I've read are outright political pamphlets. Mostly they're great sci-fi.