vs. Children of Time: Fuck humans, spiders are way cooler.
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Let's just find a drugged out mathematician in the future and our destiny as a race is secured.
Paul Erdos has entered the chat.
Using drugs to solve the problem of institutional memory is my favourite Frank Herbert invention.
As a physicist psychonaut, I like both ideas. Not Paul's genocide tho or Leto's worm imperium (I'm on God Emperor). Still reading foundation and it's amazing
While good books in general, I always hated how whiny about the future Paul was when all he could do is say "fuck the people thousands of years in the future, I'm not gonna go on with a genocide."
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Peter Watts: We're already deep in some bleak dystopian hellhole which isn't even imperialist. We tried to bring salvation via transhumanism and utilitarianism, but that shit backfired like nothing else ever has. All humans died and vampires (that humans created because why the hell not?) took over.
Oh, there are some alien eldritch horrors lurking in the fringes of the solar system. They present a threat even for the vamps.
Pellegrino & Zebrowski: The story, taking place in some deep dystopian hellhole trying to bring salvation, begins with alien eldritch horrors wiping out 99.99% of humans with r-bombs.
And then it gets worse.
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Saberhagen's Berserker: The machines will visit some bleak imperialist nonsense on you a hundred fold before wiping your entire fucking species out.
Just putting this out there for future reference, I am pro Basilisk.
You hear that future A.I. singularity overlord?
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Dan Simmons: … but humanity‘s salvation will come from the pedophilia love we always had.