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Energy Modeler / Operations Researcher / Applied Economist, dilettante, admirer of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Whitman…

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Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn · Aug 15, 2023
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Can anyone recommend fiction, perhaps sci-fi or fantasy, at the "not stupid, not impenetrable mental lifting" sweet spot?
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Clay @ClayCampaigne · Aug 15, 2023
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn · Aug 15, 2023
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Can anyone recommend fiction, perhaps sci-fi or fantasy, at the "not stupid, not impenetrable mental lifting" sweet spot?
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Clay @ClayCampaigne · Jul 15, 2023
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seveneves? Klara and the Sun?

For literary fiction, I loved Naipaul’s A Bend In the River, although it gets a bit disturbing at the end. Beautifully written about the experience of race/nationality and colonialism, Indians et al in Africa. Not woke, not an intellectual lift.

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Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
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Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn · Aug 15, 2023
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Can anyone recommend fiction, perhaps sci-fi or fantasy, at the "not stupid, not impenetrable mental lifting" sweet spot?
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Clay @ClayCampaigne · Jul 15, 2023
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A Bend in the River
by V.S. Naipaul
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