Postsingular
10 best books like Postsingular (Rudy Rucker): Gravity's Rainbow, Space Opera, Anathem, Blue Remembered Earth, The Last Policeman, Accelerando, Glasshouse, Schismatrix Plus, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Author | Thomas Pynchon |
ISBN | 0143039946 |
Advice for a first time reader of Gravity's Rainbow:
Gravity's Rainbow is a book you either love or hate, and if you hate it it's probably because you couldn't finish the damn thing. Though by no means impenetrable, the novel is daunting enough to merit a list of tips for those wishing to tackle...
Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
ISBN | 1472115074 |
IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SING
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together...
Author | Neal Stephenson |
ISBN | 0061474096 |
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and...
Author | Alastair Reynolds |
ISBN | 0575088273 |
BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history...out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.
One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where...
Author | Ben H. Winters |
ISBN | 1594745765 |
What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die soon, anyway?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There's no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.
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"The Last Policeman "presents a fascinating...
Author | Charles Stross |
ISBN | 0441014151 |
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial...
Author | Charles Stross |
ISBN | 0441014038 |
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities...
Author | Bruce Sterling |
ISBN | 0441003702 |
Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.
In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Author | David Epstein |
ISBN | 0735214484 |
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Author | Tom Wainwright |
ISBN | 1610395832 |
What drug lords learned from big business
How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students...
Author | Alastair Reynolds |
ISBN | 0575090499 |
Reynolds continues to amaze. I remembered Blue Remembered Earth very fondly and this third book, taking place several hundred years after the events taking place there, captures more than just the spirit, but gives us one hell of an adventure among the stars.
Best points?
The Watchmakers,...