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Anyone have recommendations for similar authors? I love how his stories grow in scope (one discovery plausibly leads to another and eventually interdimensional
by Frotag 3y ago
Anyone have recommendations for similar authors?
I love how his stories grow in scope (one discovery plausibly leads to another and eventually interdimensional travel). I know Adrian Tchaikovsky is a popular recommendation around here (especially Children of Time and rightfully so), but I'm looking for something with less drama / less character-driven. The 3 body problem is a good example.
Also tangential but I recommend trying Last and First Idol for anyone looking for ridiculous, gory, self-consistent sci-fi.
- enriquto 3y agoTake a look at qntm [0], who writes very disturbing short stories. He is also a coder, notably of the famous hatetris game. [0] http://qntm.org http://qntm.org
- Frotag 3y agoSadly that's another author I'm already caught up with. His SCP series was really memorable though.
- RupertEisenhart 3y agoYou're telling me the antimemetics series was memorable? I guess it was bad then ;)?
- RupertEisenhart 3y agoAccelerando by Charles Stross is a blast, fairly hard scifi, at least the first half. Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> "Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." — JDN
- badcppdev 3y agoAgree. And whenever I see someone recommend Peter Watts I feel the need to add a note warning that he's got a lot of sexual torture stuff in his work so might not be to everyone's taste.
- TwentyPosts 3y ago...There's sexual torture content in Blindsight? Or in his short stories? Having read several of them, I really don't remember anything like that. Can you note some examples?
- 082349872349872 3y agoIt's off-page in Blindsight, but happens to the protagonist, right?
- badcppdev 3y agoI'd rather not. That stuff isn't my cup of tea. Why don't you just google it.
- selimthegrim 3y agoI think they are talking about the trilogy with Starfish
- hindsightbias 3y agoAs opposed to the tortuous sex in Ayn Rand.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 3y agoWho's JDN?
- 082349872349872 3y agohttps://jamesdavisnicoll.com https://jamesdavisnicoll.com
- snovv_crash 3y agoA little different, but Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton scratches the same itch for me.
- xtiansimon 3y agoSaturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein (2015) has a appendix where the authors runs down the science behind their space science (and calls out something like Star Treky science explaining). I read this after the Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter series Time’s Eye series, which also has fantastic science themes.
- cubefox 3y agoI haven't read him, but Vernor Vinge was also a mathematician.
- carapace 3y agoLarry Niven
- jrussino 3y agoYou may also like Ted Chaing's work. Some of his stories are available online for free here: https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Ted_Chiang.html https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Ted_Chiang.html His short story "The Story of Your Life" was adapted into the 2016 movie "Arrival".