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Dragon’s Egg is my favorite hard SF novel. I remember attending a session with Robert Forward at an early 1980s World Science Fiction Convention and was amazed
by leejoramo 4y ago
Dragon’s Egg is my favorite hard SF novel. I remember attending a session with Robert Forward at an early 1980s World Science Fiction Convention and was amazed at how much detail science and math Forward put into his books.
- idiotsecant 4y agoAgreed, great book. Anyone who enjoys thinking about the extremes of possible life might also enjoy Blindsight by Peter Watts. It blew my mind about the nature of thought and consciousness in the same way dragon's egg blew my mind about the nature of time and consciousness.
- milesward 4y agoNext try “there is no anti-memetics division”
- idiotsecant 4y agoI could have sworn there was a popular SCP by the same name! I will check this out, thanks!
- astrange 4y agoSame thing. It's about as good as an SF novel written on the SCP wiki could possibly be. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub (The extended universe of this story is the Fifthist Church, which is usually written as a kind of hippie Scientology and has a pretty different feel.)
- amigosauce 4y agoAnother suggestion: the Xeelee sequence by Stephen Baxter :)
- bashinator 4y agoJust finished rereading that for the first time in ages. I don’t agree with a lot of its opinion on consciousness, but still great read. I was surprised at how in line with Dark Forest theory it is.
- ad-astra 4y agoHah, it just so happens that I’m listening to the audiobook right now. Very fun but too engaging to listen to before going to bed :)