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The Light of Other DaysNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000
Time travel, tense in tone, about surveillance and technological singularity.
“An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”
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Subjective CosmologySeries
series3 books1992
Hard science fiction.
“Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which Egan acknowledges was chosen more for its entertainment value than for its likelihood of being correct.”
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SynnersNovel
Pat Cadiganstandalone novel1991
Cyberpunk, dark in tone, set in big city.
“In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim.”
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The Stone GodsNovel
Jeanette Wintersonstandalone novel2007
Dystopia and post-apocalyptic, about ecological collapse.
Jean le FlambeurSeries
series3 books2010
Space opera and hard science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.
“Jean le Flambeur is a master thief broken out of a virtual prison to pull off one more impossible heist, in a solar system reshaped by uploaded minds, post-human factions, and economies built on memory and privacy themselves.”
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GenesisNovel
Bernard Beckettstandalone novel2006
Dystopia, reflective in tone, about identity.