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title: Other things you may like
description: A nonexhaustive list of... content/media... which I like and which you may also be interested in as a visitor of my site.
created: 11/06/2020
updated: 01/03/2024
updated: 22/03/2024
slug: otherstuff
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I'm excluding music from this because music preferences seem to be even more varied between the people I interact with than other stuff.
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* [Bastion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59521676-bastion) - great worldbuilding, somewhat annoying characters (though they improve somewhat).
* [Dogs of War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35827220-dogs-of-war) - pretty good scifi, though I am not sure it's very "thought-provoking" as some reviewers claim inasmuch as the ethical questions in it are not very hard.
* [Lexicon](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158596-lexicon) - fun, though I think the connection to data privacy issues is poorly done, perhaps because it's from 2013 and this feels outdated.
* [Thresholder](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/60396/thresholder) - a "jumpchain" story done very well.
* [Luminous](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156782.Luminous)/[Oceanic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6741362-oceanic)/[Instantiation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50641444-instantiation) and other Greg Egan short stories - great high-concept scifi; I think Egan works better at short story length than full novels, though the only novel from him I have actually read is [Schild's Ladder](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156780.Schild_s_Ladder).
* [The Lost Books of the Odyssey](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2199365.The_Lost_Books_of_the_Odyssey) - same author as Void Star so my notes about the prose apply. An interesting take on the mythology and at times even rather funny.
* [Accelerando](https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html) - the best fictional depiction of the posthuman technocapital singularity I'm aware of.
Special mentions (i.e. "I haven't gotten around to reading these but they are well-reviewed and sound interesting") to:
* [Children of Time](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time) by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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* [House of Suns](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1126719.House_of_Suns) by Alastair Reynolds.
* "house of suns is really very good, you should read" - baidicoot/Aidan, creator of the world-renowned [Emu War](/emu-war) game
* [Singularity Sky](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81992.Singularity_Sky) by Charlie Stross.
* [Zones of Thought](https://www.goodreads.com/series/52585-zones-of-thought) by Vernor Vinge.
* [Cradle](https://www.goodreads.com/series/192821-cradle) by Will Wight.
If you want EPUB versions of the free web serials here for your e-reader, there are tools to generate those, or you can contact me for a copy.