duly noted. i missed it before amongst all the BSG and ST dicussions.. good choice btw—i’ve always considered it to be one of his best.
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many good recommendations so far but unbelievably nobody has yet mentioned Iain M. Banks’ series of ‘Culture’ novels based on a humanoid society (the ‘Culture’) run by incredibly powerful AI’s known as ‘Minds’.
highly engaging books which deal with much of what a possible highly technologically advanced post singularity society might be like in terms of morality, politics, philosophy etc. they are far fetched and a lot of fun. here’s the list to date:
Consider Phlebas (1987)
The Player of Games (1988)
Use of Weapons (1990)
Excession (1996)
Inversions (1998)
Look to Windward (2000)
Matter (2008)
they are not consecutive so reading order isn’t that important though it is nice to follow their evolution from the perspective of the writing.
“All you’re pseudo-, pop-scientific drivel is distancing you.”
immediately followed by:
“”don’t want to walk and talk about jesus, i just want to see his face....” Mick Jagger”
priceless.