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He's one of the best modern sci-fi writers. The whole collection of short stories here is fantastic, as is the "Anti-mimetics division" series he wrote over on
by kian 6y ago
He's one of the best modern sci-fi writers. The whole collection of short stories here is fantastic, as is the "Anti-mimetics division" series he wrote over on SCP wiki.
- rkachowski 6y agoi had no idea that was the same author, both the linked story and the anti memetics sequence have taken root in my mind for a long time. Before reading the antiemetics series I had always considered SCP to be an awkward xfiles style fan fiction collection, I'm still looking for more to scratch that itch.
- Filligree 6y ago*Antimemetics The quality of the SCPs has increased over time, by and large, though there were always outliers. A good way to find the better stories is to look at the Exploring series on Youtube; for instance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pJUm4lKOhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pJUm4lKOhE
- FridgeSeal 6y agoIf you’re looking for more, the game Control [1] has some amazing SCP/etc vibes to it. https://youtu.be/m-As1OGqJkU https://youtu.be/m-As1OGqJkU https://youtu.be/-oXCMFX9H8g https://youtu.be/-oXCMFX9H8g
- ineedasername 6y agoYou use to know they were the same author. You probably don't remember all of your HN posts that don't exist where you compared the different works in great detail whenever it was remotely on topic. The loss seems recent: take your mnemetics.
- Zanni 6y agoI just read "There Is No Antimemetics Division," and I was blown away. Really exhilarating science fiction that feels at once hyper-modern and yet retro in that it's more about ideas than characters. Very reminiscent of Ted Chiang. (I was also pretty delightfully confused by the timeline because I read it as a novel when it's actually a collection of short stories.)
- JasonFruit 6y agoI'd never run across any of that, and the Antimemetics Division series is amazing, just brilliantly creative.