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One sci-fi author that I really found refreshing was Karl Schroeder. His first book has been made available for anyone to read, and if you like nano bots, mic
by osxrand 12y ago
One sci-fi author that I really found refreshing was Karl Schroeder.
His first book has been made available for anyone to read, and if you like nano bots, micro payments, discussions on what it means to be human, I'd highly recommend checking his works out.
http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version
- elzr 12y agoI second Karl Schroeder as a worthwhile SF author! His novels can be challenging but his ideas are unique and worth the price of admission: * Ventus, his first novel, is about a world that turns accidentally alive (think Gaia) via nanotechnology. * Lady of Mazes turns around how we could use (very advanced) technology to preserve cultures instead of undermining them. * Permanence is about a star-faring civilization so advanced it doesn't need technology, it is technology, having perfectly evolved itself to its niche. * The Virga series is set in a wonderfully imaginative zero-gee bubble-of-gas world, heated by an artificial sun --think of it as space with air! Besides being an SF author, Schroeder is also a professional futurist. I recommend his OSCON 2009 talk,The Rewilding: A Metaphor, as a good introduction to his thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE