Written by the guy who writes Less Wrong, this asks the question "What would Harry Potter be like if he were raised by loving scientists and JKR wasn't a shitty writer?", and answers it with pure awesome. Harry Potter fan fic? What the fuck? No, I promise this is awesome. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowski.
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Link goes to the Google Docs viewer of the PDF hosted on NowScape that Adams links to on his own site-there is a download button on the upper left under the Docs logo. Fun for the mindfuck by the end, and for the introduction.
Sort of slipstream pulp philosophy fiction. Read this when I was 19 or so, enjoyed it. God's Debris by Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. It starts off seeming to be four or five completely unrelated stories which eventually all converge. Redditor-written online novel of superheros, theoretical physics, interdimentional beings, and other stuff that would be spoilers. Duplicate: would you die to save your own life?"įine Structure by Sam Hughes. The DupliPod will grow you a new body when it's safe you will awake refreshed and renewed. First it records your brain patterns, then kills you. "What do you do when your ship is about to hit an asteroid? Why, you jump in your Corp-provided DupliPod, of course. I definitely prefered Down and Out (anarchist cyberpunk about identity) to Little Brother (YA teaching kids to hack and encrypt), but they're both worth the read even if Doctorow does get preachy.ĭuplicate by Alex Feinman. Watts also has several other novels available on his website, including Starfish, which seems to be the most recommended of them.ĭown and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother, and others by Cory Doctorow. As much an exercise in philosophy of mind as it is an awesome story. Available on author's website, tells the story of first contact in a cyberpunk world. Not great, but has some pretty fun ideas.īlindsight by Peter Watts. Novel set during a modern-day Apocalypse.
Scalzi's first novel.Īpocalypsopolis by Ran Prieur. Humorous SF about aliens who need an agent. The world he finds himself in is strange, the dreams he has every night are even stranger - yet somehow, the dreams make more sense.Īgent to the Stars by John Scalzi. A man wakes up after voluntarily undergoing a pioneering brain scan intended to upload his mind into a computer. I thought the first couple chapters were the best.Īfterlife by Simon Funk. CC-licensed novel about the singularity and its impact on two different generations. Folks can go ahead and look through the comments for places to find short fiction and a few novels that didn't really seem worth putting on the list because no one could give a good recommendation.įinally, many of the authors listed post other works, whether short fiction or long-form, on their websites as well, so poke around a little bit and you might find something interesting.Īccelerando by Charles Stoss. I'm perfectly happy exerting my own editorial control of what I place on the list, but the comments are available for all to see (and upvotes/compelling arguments will win me over on most stuff).įeel free to comment with short story collections, but I'm not going to include those on the list itself. Prefer SF over F, but hard or soft is fine, and I'll include fantasy if there is a compelling reason to do so.
So, this is something I've been meaning to compile for my own sake for a while, and figured that Reddit would be the perfect place to publish it and get recommendations from other people.Ĭomment with title, author, link (preferably spelled out to make it easier for me to copy/paste), and a short description of the novel, and I'll add it. I have a bunch of reading material for the next few weeks now, which is particularly welcome given how broke I am. First, thanks! to everyone who has contributed so far.
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