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Emmett Shear

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Sunk Cost Pharisee @SunkCostPharisee · Jun 28, 2023
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What are your favorite, decently-written, science fiction epics?
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Book Dec 1, 1997
Axiomatic
by Greg Egan
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Sunk Cost Pharisee @SunkCostPharisee · Jun 28, 2023
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
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Sunk Cost Pharisee @SunkCostPharisee · Jun 28, 2023
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Book May, 1999
Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
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Sunk Cost Pharisee @SunkCostPharisee · Jun 28, 2023
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Book Oct 27, 2021
Termination Shock
by Neal Stephenson
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Sunk Cost Pharisee @SunkCostPharisee · Jun 28, 2023
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The Nanotech Succession by Nagata

Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Termination Shock by Stephenson (others too but those are my 3)

Axiomatic by Egan (short stories but great)

Book Mar 1, 1995
The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Succession, #1)
by Linda Nagata
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tapir worf @tapir_worf · Mar 31, 2023
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Daemon by Suarez is good, v niche, weirdly timely atm If you haven’t read Borges, he’s broadly amazing. And underread among sci-fi / fantasy lovers. Card’s old, weird stuff (eg The Worthing Saga) is great Roadside Picnic is still v good, and was written in the old USSR

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Roadside Picnic
by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
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tapir worf @tapir_worf · Mar 31, 2023
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Daemon by Suarez is good, v niche, weirdly timely atm If you haven’t read Borges, he’s broadly amazing. And underread among sci-fi / fantasy lovers. Card’s old, weird stuff (eg The Worthing Saga) is great Roadside Picnic is still v good, and was written in the old USSR

Book Dec, 1990
The Worthing Saga (Worthing, #1-3)
by Orson Scott Card
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tapir worf @tapir_worf · Mar 31, 2023
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Emmett Shear @EmmettShear · Mar 31, 2023
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Daemon by Suarez is good, v niche, weirdly timely atm If you haven’t read Borges, he’s broadly amazing. And underread among sci-fi / fantasy lovers. Card’s old, weird stuff (eg The Worthing Saga) is great Roadside Picnic is still v good, and was written in the old USSR

Book Dec 1, 2006
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
by Daniel Suarez
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