Edit: I’ve been informed by a very polite DM that I have this disorder. I need time to process this.
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So, I have two friends who are also avid book readers, and recently in a conversation it came up that both of them “see movies” when they are reading a book, they say its literally like seeing transparent moving pictures “overlayed” to what they are actually seeing with their eyes.
I find this super fascinating. Does anyone here experience this too?
Recently I was in Santiago, Chile and went to the Pre-Columbian museum. I came across Incan Knots known as quipu. These knots were used to keep record of taxes, census info, military organization, etc. Immediately I thought of yllish knots from Kingkiller Chronicles.
Needless to say I found this fascinating and wondered what you all have discovered that actually exists?
I’m looking for some books or a series with the above plot or at least having it be a key factor in the story.
Bonus points if there is revenge, the upper society collapses (for better or worse), and it’s heavy on the political drama
PROOF: https://i.redd.it/ccckryutvela1.jpg Hi Reddit. Neal Stephenson here. I wrote a number of books including Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and most recently Termination Shock. Over the last five decades, I have been known for my works of speculative fiction. My writing covers a wide range of topics from science fiction to technology, mathematics, and philosophy.
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ETA; **UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM**
He is now deleting comments. He also has been telling people to “not to throw around accusations” and something to the effect of implying that people love to sensationalise things, and that’s what we’re doing. Idk about y’all, but all I did on here was talk about the plain facts. His reaction to this is incredibly disappointing, entitled and unprofessional. (ETA on 27th Feb)
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Hey everyone! Just wanted to come on here and warn y’all about Jack Edwards’ youtube subscription he’s offering. TLDR; Please do not join; it is essentially a scam.
Disclaimer; we wanted to sort this out in private and reached out to him over discord to make our concerns known to him. This isn’t the first he’s heard of this, and we’ve been left with no choice but to talk about this publicly because he’s 1) still offering this service on his channel to unsuspecting fans …
I was nervous to read Snow Crash again because it was a really formative book for me in high-school. If anything, it was even better than I remembered - the action and big tech ideas had stuck with me, but I’d forgotten how funny this book is!
Here’s the setup: Hiro Protagonist (yes, you read that right - the book really isn’t trying to take itself too seriously) is a self-described hacker working as a pizza-delivery driver and living in a storage unit at LAX.
He lives in a US that has been fully corporatized - from Judge Bob’s Judicial System to Pastor Wayne’s Pearly Gates.
To get away, Hiro spends much of his free-time in the Metaverse, where he wrote many of the subroutines that underpin the virtual world. One of his hacker friends, Da5id, is given a new virtual drug called Snow Crash that not only crashes his computer, but also destroys his brain in the real world. Hiro (and a hilarious cadre of friends) are drawn ever deeper into the worldwide conspiracy that …
Just finished this genre classic and wow what a ride. I was a little sceptical at first because I’ve been burned my old sf classics before feeling too dated or cheesy. And although TSmD does show its age in a rare few instances, for the most part it feels shockingly contemporary and fresh.
And damn is it ever a stylish book. Everything from the setting, the prose, dialogue and characters just bleeds cool. I was surprised to see a ton of cyberpunk elements in a book like 70 years old and then I did some research to see that it’s actually considered proto-cyberpunk and a precursor to the genre. This dude Bester was way ahead of his time.
The teleportation concept was really neat and implemented really well within the story. The narrative around the concept is essentially the count of Monte Cristo in space, which really is fucking awesome cause that’s probably my all time favourite novel. Nothing more satisfying than a well-executed tale of vengeance.
I also wanna talk about Gully …
I figured you nerds would want to know:
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/11h6hg5/i_am_neal_stephenson_scifi_author_geek_and_now/
The half where we switch from the bleak and harrowing hard sci-fi alien war we’ve been reading (with a cold-sweat and total enrapture) to a-
SPOILERS!!!!
…story about Han Solo doing his best goofy Jack Sparrow impression with some space pirates? And then he winds up on a colony? With a (checks notes) tech-genius/fanboy teenager who’s ALSO emperor of that colony?
No one who recommends this book on here ever mentions it and i don’t know why - it’s such a weird second thread to follow that honestly could have been it’s own book. I mean Armor is good - great even, but that whiplash was fierce.
Apparently, you can’t post images here, so can’t share the book cover. Anyway, his new novel is being released Sept 5.
“Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.
Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply’s most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization?
As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the inquiry by proxy. In using her, did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire? And what does Tench’s attack tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?”