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I’ve personally come to the conclusion that the vast majority of sci-fi is sci-fantasy for the simple reason that I can’t convince myself fleshy humans have any
by mdorazio 3y ago
I’ve personally come to the conclusion that the vast majority of sci-fi is sci-fantasy for the simple reason that I can’t convince myself fleshy humans have any meaningful place in the exploratory parts of the future. Novels featuring human crews of spaceships doing more than maintenance, let alone humans in combat scenarios are increasingly laughable. It’s 2023 and humans on crewed SpaceX flights already don’t do anything. Humans 100 years from now will be even less necessary, not more.
Any sci-fi recommendations where the fleshy meat bags are mostly useless? I enjoyed the earlier Murderbot novels, thought the Bobiverse was interesting, and have already read all the Culture and Polity universe books.
- Klaster_1 3y agoGreg Egan's Incandescence and Diaspora fit the bill.
- jcul 3y agoYeah, I was about to recommend Diaspora just before I spotted your comment.
- dmoy 3y agoOne of the three manifold books (Baxter), I forget which one, has a very beginning with your exact conclusion (no meat bags at all), and later a subsection/ending that at least doesnt have human fleshy meat bags.
- hirsin 3y agoChildren of Time/Ruin handles the "what are the living things for?" decently well, although does skate towards the "maybe nothing?" conclusion over time. Haven't gotten the third book so will see.
- ABS 3y agoCharles Stross' Accelerando, which is also available for free: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...