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There was a decent science fiction serris based on this premise: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700919.Signal_to_Noise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show

There was a decent science fiction serris based on this premise: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700919.Signal_to_Noise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700919.Signal_to_Noise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/737628.A_Signal_Shattered https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/737628.A_Signal_Shattere...

jaggederest 2y ago
Eric Nylund's books are uniformly excellent, even (perhaps surprisingly) the Halo tie-ins
- genewitch 2y ago
  Never heard of him
  - genewitch 2y ago
    > The novel follows Jack Potter, a computer cryptographer tenured at the fictional Academe of Pure and Applied Sciences in Santa Sierra, California (a city assembled from the ruins of San Francisco.) The story details Jack's first encounter with an alien calling himself Wheeler who apparently wishes to trade information with humanity. > Accompanied (for a while) by "gene witch" Zero al Qaseem and data paleontologist Isabel Mirabeau, Jack establishes a corporation based around one of the technologies he was traded by Wheeler, but soon finds that there may be more to his dealings with the alien than he bargained for. Traitorous alliances, deceitful propaganda, and shady business practices are frequent elements of the novel. > "gene witch"
genewitch 2y ago
"Decent"
- yhager 2y ago
  By quoting the word "Decent" you mean it is actually excellent, or is it actually poor?
  - genewitch 2y ago
    my handle, gene witch, is literally from the book(s) being discussed. They're real good books.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  I thoroughly enjoyed them! I think I have both in paperback, though as a teenager, I managed to read them out of order.
watersb 2y ago
Ideally enjoyed these. Can't find them as ebooks. The first one was where I first encountered the idea of the "One Electron Universe": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe A major plot point of these books is an alien technology that enables teleportation by somehow tapping into the Earth's angular momentum.

jaggederest 2y ago

Eric Nylund's books are uniformly excellent, even (perhaps surprisingly) the Halo tie-ins

genewitch 2y ago
Never heard of him
- genewitch 2y ago
  > The novel follows Jack Potter, a computer cryptographer tenured at the fictional Academe of Pure and Applied Sciences in Santa Sierra, California (a city assembled from the ruins of San Francisco.) The story details Jack's first encounter with an alien calling himself Wheeler who apparently wishes to trade information with humanity. > Accompanied (for a while) by "gene witch" Zero al Qaseem and data paleontologist Isabel Mirabeau, Jack establishes a corporation based around one of the technologies he was traded by Wheeler, but soon finds that there may be more to his dealings with the alien than he bargained for. Traitorous alliances, deceitful propaganda, and shady business practices are frequent elements of the novel. > "gene witch"

genewitch 2y ago

"Decent"

yhager 2y ago
By quoting the word "Decent" you mean it is actually excellent, or is it actually poor?
- genewitch 2y ago
  my handle, gene witch, is literally from the book(s) being discussed. They're real good books.
pavel_lishin 2y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed them! I think I have both in paperback, though as a teenager, I managed to read them out of order.

watersb 2y ago

Ideally enjoyed these. Can't find them as ebooks. The first one was where I first encountered the idea of the "One Electron Universe": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe A major plot point of these books is an alien technology that enables teleportation by somehow tapping into the Earth's angular momentum.