I was reminded first of his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel) (Diaspora is a much more ap

I was reminded first of his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel) (Diaspora is a much more appealing story, at least for me, and probably my fave of his novels, but Incandescence does something unique: a discovery fiction of people figuring out elements of general relativity before newtonian mechanics.)