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Aside from Project Hail Mary which I assume every /c/sciencefiction subscriber is going to read what have you been reading or plan to read?

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (August 2023)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Snowcrash: pleasantly surprised by the quality of the world building, which I love.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s amazing how many things he’s predicted (or noticed and predicted would become mainstream) over the years.

Bitcoin, metaverse, the importance of cryptography in modern IT, monetized streaming video, …

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seriously though. They fucking called it, unironically, the metaverse. That's a coined ass phrase. Distopian from the beginning. Weird choice on Meta's part haha.

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