Comment by HocusLocus
4 days ago
Suggested hard sci-fi light reading: "Cosm" by Gregory Benford, 1999. A universe the size of a bowling ball created in a laboratory. The scientist responsible for it, keeping it safe and on the run from gvt spooks. They want to protect it for as long as it lasts, and since its time is as relative as its size, they won't have long to wait.
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Opinions:
A) I love all the scifi book recommendations that cone up on HN
B) i wish you’d all stop recommending great and amazing books. My queue is so backlogged and jammed I'm never going to catch up.
Same here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts.
Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.
OK then, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my own sci-fi book I put out there free forever to listen ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA ) and free forever to read/download/listen ( https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl ) because I don't want to navigate the self-publishing world, just want some feedback before I die.
Only joking, I'm remiss anyways.
So many books, so little time...
There needs to be some kind of hackernews library or goodread. I have enjoyed many books (and some no so much) but always on the look out for books.
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If only we had an even bigger universe, we would have more time... is that how it works?
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What's a couple dozen books (and video games) in my backlog when I have a thousand websites there?
Please share the queue!
Rick and Morty episode (season 2 episode 6, 'The Ricks Must be Crazy') where it turns out rick has created a whole universe inside his spaceship battery who's whole purpose is to produce energy to run his spaceship. A scientist within this microverse creates a miniverse ....
Should not be microverse inside miniverse?
This sounds similar to Horton Hears a Who.
They exist in the same cinematic universe.
Microcosmic God - Theodore Sturgeon (1941)
I seem to remember a similar Star Trek episode; DS9, IIRC.
"playing god", s2e17
I remember that, and the enormous plot hole that they could move the thing in a transporter!