/lit/ - Literature

>>22642520
>>22642529
actually fuck.. do you have the original? I swear I wrote this up a couple months ago when I recommended Egan to someone.

I HAVE had sex, I swear

Egansisters, how is Diaspora? I really enjoyed Permutation City. pic probably related??

>>22244500
checked. Ted Chaing's stuff is in collections, but also standalone online. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/

Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/

>>20647930
I don't, but I definitely like sci-fi more. sci-fi has the capacity to delve a lot into philosophy and thought experiments around philosophical ideas and technology; what if's. Greg Egan's Permutation City is a good example with respect to mind uploading.

t. STEM sperg

>>20641707
>>20642807
sounds pretty based. and today I learned what the word "failson" means.

three quarters thru Seveneves, hoping to power thru it tonight. god I hate Hillary Clinton. what do I read next?

>Flowers for Algernon
>Excession (Culture book)
>House of Suns (Reynolds)
>Name of the Rose (Eco.. not /sffg/ but supposedly a comfy priest murder mystery)

>>20420857
I am reading Seveneves (Stephenson) right now. After that I will probably read House of Suns (Reynolds), Use of Weapons (Banks), or Excession (Banks). The thing about Banks is that I really didn't like Consider Phlebas, and Player of Games was just OK. Wasn't really digging the whole Chess in Space thing. But then again I'm probably too much of a brainlet.

>>16047256
>>16047287
no but I'd like to be. I was given copies of the Kuhn and Feyerabend by an old coworker who did studied phil in college back in like the 60s, and philosophy of science was his jam. He was doing physics, read some phil sci, and said fuck this shit and just became an engineer.

I guess... what? Reading Kuhn and Feyerabend is going to make me feel that science is LESS grounded than I believe / perceive it to be? "Yadda yadda correlation does not imply causation; we cannot objectively PROVE anything out; we can just see patterns" - is that the kinda shit these fellas are getting at?