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Can anyone recommend some sci-fi novels that were placed in a time when the transition toward a new future created the main problems in the story? I'm thinking Gattica, and perhaps the movie version of PK Dick's short story that became Blade Runner.
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That pretty much sums up the entire Asimov Foundation series! Quite a long transition though.
On a more human scale. Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human is a must read.
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I understand what you mean with Foundation, but I didn't phrase the question properly. What I mean is a near-future where a reader today could see the logical extension of current technology investigation. I'm specifically thinking about genetic science which could result in the Nexus 6 replicants of Blade Runner. Or something much better, really.
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William Gibson - Neuromancer. Pretty much every idea in The Matrix and its clones came from Gibson - he even coined the term "Cyberspace"!
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Yup, also Snow Crash.
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Cities in Flight series by Blish. (?) (Too lazy to open that folder.)
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Charles Stross - the whole singularity idea.
Old Man's War trilogy Scalzi
Perdido Station - images can give you permanent nightmares.....may I please have a lump of coal sir
The Forever War - one I'd never heard of and updated by John Scalzi- perhaps one of the wildest transformations and due to relativity- all witnessed by the main character.
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Old Man's War trilogy Scalzi
Perdido Station - images can give you permanent nightmares.....may I please have a lump of coal sir
The Forever War - one I'd never heard of and updated by John Scalzi- perhaps one of the wildest transformations and due to relativity- all witnessed by the main character.
Anathem - hang in with it.
Snow Crash and Diamond Age - both brilliant , funny- pardon the pun.......the pizza's late..poor kid..
Windup Girl....you'll never look a quiet polite Japanese girl the same..
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How about Slan? Emergence of psionically endowed people, does that qualify?
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Re: Transition era science fiction - examples?
Yeah - reminds me - Childhoods End - classic Clark - similar emergent theme.
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The Lensmen Series
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At that level, you cover pretty much the whole cyberpunk genre... William Gibson's whole work, stuff like George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails trilogy, Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired, of Voice of the Whirlwind, John Brunner's Shockwave Rider, lots of stuff by Bruce Sterling, Or even thing's Like Harry Harryson's Turing Option, Pohl and Kornbluth's Gladiator At Law, or Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron and Little HeroesXamonas Chegwé wrote:William Gibson - Neuromancer. Pretty much every idea in The Matrix and its clones came from Gibson - he even coined the term "Cyberspace"!
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Funny, I had that one pegged under High Fantasy in Clarke's Third law clothing...Gawdzilla wrote:The Lensmen Series
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It's highly rational, for the times. Telepathy is the main "magic", the rest is pretty much 1940s physics.Svartalf wrote:Funny, I had that one pegged under High Fantasy in Clarke's Third law clothing...Gawdzilla wrote:The Lensmen Series
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Would Iain M Bank's culture novels be a bit too space opera?
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Did he do Pandora's World?Audley Strange wrote:Would Iain M Bank's culture novels be a bit too space opera?
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