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* [Street Cultivation](https://www.goodreads.com/series/287542-street-cultivation) - again, sane characters who do not make obviously stupid decisions for plot reasons.
* [Nexus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642710-nexus) - somewhat dumb plot but very cool transhumanist technology.
* [The Divine Cities](https://www.goodreads.com/series/159695-the-divine-cities) - I like any[^1] fiction about killing God, and this has great characterization and a creatively exotic setting too. I haven't actually finished City of Miracles though.
* [The Machineries of Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/160439-the-machineries-of-empire) - also a cool unique setting, although I do feel like it has some issues with pacing, and the vaguely mathematical setting annoys me because the few pieces of specific maths are wrong.
* [The Machineries of Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/160439-the-machineries-of-empire) - a unique setting, although I do feel like it has some issues with pacing, the vaguely mathematical nature of setting annoys me because the few pieces of specific maths are wrong[^2] (and, related to this, the setting is also not really congruent: there's not enough information there to model what might happen next yourself, or why anything might happen), and the fact that somehow nobody in several hundred years has thought of a particular thing until the protagonist did.
* [The Freeze-Frame Revolution](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510759-the-freeze-frame-revolution) - interesting ideas and surprisingly cognizant of AI safety concerns for its time. Annoyingly short, but it *is* a novella.
* [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.
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You can suggest other possibly-good stuff in the comments and I may add it to an extra section, and pointlessly complain there or [by email](mailto:me@osmarks.net) if you don't like some of this. Please tell me if any links are dead.
[^1]: Not really.
[^1]: Not really.
[^2]: <div><blockquote>Think of normal spacetime, said the author/illustrator, as a hypersurface. Each point on that surface had a tangent space associated with it. The tangent space could be considered a linearization of the area around the point, with extraneous information knifed away. Anyone stuck in the region of a threshold winnower’s effect was painfully affected by the linearization.</blockquote>That is not at all how that works. Also some parts on cryptography. I can only assume reviewers generally ignored this because they studied English.</div>

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// for easier viewing on big screen devices, narrow the width of text
// also make links a bit more distinct
main
max-width: 100%
max-width: calc(100% - 2 * $content-margin)
width: $content-width
text-align: justify
margin-left: $content-margin