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SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss The Three-Body Problem, Start Reading Snow Crash

posted by martyb on Thursday December 06 2018, @01:32PM   
from the read-and-discuss dept.

takyon writes:

December: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

The next poll will pick two books. I'd like to do it that way to keep a strong second place contender from being overlooked, and so I don't have to update the poll so often.

Discuss The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin in the comments below.

Snow Crash was written by Neal Stephenson in 1992. The novel features a bit of a Calexit scenario, and is known for popularizing the term "avatar" (paving the way for James Cameron's true magnum opus). These days, Neal moonlights as Magic Leap's "Chief Futurist". Seems appropriate.

Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho! • Foundation

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• Re:All sci-fi stories are stories about humans(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Friday December 07 2018, @06:39PM

  by legont (4179) on Friday December 07 2018, @06:39PM (#771260)

  but of more interest, are the number of people who betray the human race, for various reasons.

  I travel more than average folks do and what I see is almost universal hate of the local governments. It's not universal in a sense of what local is as some hate say state level but ok with city or vise versa, but there is some government to hate for everybody. That's why I am so pessimistic about our progress as humans at least for a foreseeable future.

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  "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.

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