scifi (Science Fiction)

 k v good [... kindle]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time

k - [kindle] Slaughterhouse 5
(Kurt Vonnegut)


k not the best -  The light of other days
Arthur C Clarke

Neal Stephenson (from AI conference 2025)

- Snow Crash

- The Diamond Age

xx - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress -

 by Robert Heinlein
xx stranger in a strange land

- The word "grok" was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land

xx starship troopers 

xx - enders game

xx Gibson - Count zero, Mona Lisa overdrive

xx Flowers for Algernon

xx - 3 body problem

xx see chatgpt rec! in bb ML repo  OR here in SIWTR

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - by Heinlein

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Lords of Uncreation [Adrian Tchaikovsky]

Elder Race [Adrian Tchaikovsky]

Dogs of War [Adrian Tchaikovsky]

Waybound [Will Wight]

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elon musk books - AI

https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/9-books-elon-musks-reading-list-will-reinvent-life/
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scifi

[ordered from Margot]
Good! - This is how to lose the time war

xx - Blood music - Greg Bear (pandemic, nanotech, AI...) [1983]

xx - ling ma - Severence (satirical, short)


k - Dune (have it!)

k good - neuromancer

xx - The Paper Menagerie [Ken Liu]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885533-the-paper-menagerie-and-other-stories


xx - Crudo (Molly read it) (like Weather)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43811235-crudo?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=m7bXbnp7PP&rank=1

xx Famous men who never lived

xx Story of your life
  Ted Chang

xx JG Ballard - he wrote Cloud Sculptors short story

k mix - Kingsley Amis - Collected Short Stories (penguin)

https://overduepodcast.com/

k We - Novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin - inspired Orwell (not Huxley?)

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Novel by Anthony Doerr

- stories of two fifteenth-century children, a present-day translator, and a future in which humanity is forced to explore space to survive as a species

Neal Stephenson

- k good Snow Crash (from Steve K)

- Seveneves is a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015.

(from PK)

Robert Sheckley's most famous books include satirical novels like Dimension of Miracles and The Status Civilization, alongside classic short story collections 

like Pilgrimage to Earth and Untouched by Human Hands

(from PK)

Ijon Tichy - main character of Stanislow Lem books

- see The Invincible

Roadside Picnic - Novel by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky

(made into movie by Tarkovsky - the stalker - made in polluted river) - 1979

- Tarkovsky adapted the book into the film Stalker. He shot many of the famous, slow-pan water and river sequences in Estonia near the Jägala River, downstream from a fully functioning chemical plant. The water was heavily polluted with toxic industrial runoff.

- the masterpiece Stalker was shot near the heavily polluted Jägala River in Estonia, where toxic chemical plant waste led to tragic health consequences for the cast and crew.

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