/lit/ - Literature

>part I, bullshit quote
>long dialogue about the difficulties of machine-phase chemistry
>transhumanism-related inside jokes nobody will understand
>Diamond Age-type of societies
>main character trapped among a bunch of luddites and is also a brain-damaged retard
>Philip Moriarty cameo appearance
>part II
>bullshit quote
>stupid sexy parahumans ;___;
>more transhumanist humour
>some death and shooting
>Robert Zubrin & Charles Pellegrino make cameo appearances
>SPACE!
>part III
>bullshit quote
>Cordwainer Smith references all over the place
>the Double Shyamalan
>sad ending for everyone

Pic sort of related.

After Life by Simon Funk

Well technically the hold back technological progress, but I digress.

>>1879720

Sorry, very few books get that "Mythology meets technology" theme as well as Neverness. Then there's the whole Requiem for Homo Sapiens series, which is a sequel.

Fionhel? Is that you?

>>1653955

It was a joke, man. The first line is 'Laura Lebedev was born in a mylar bag in a lab with a million rooms; she was going to earn a place as one of the legends of the Golden Hour -- Though she did not now this.'

But I am actually considering dividing the text with passages from The Policeman's Beard Was Half-Constructed and Brainfuck code, that and a few million instances of the word machine, which as of late I find myself uttering randomly.

I'M SUCH A TRANSHUMANIST
EVEN MY TICKS AND TRANSHUMANISTS

The first five pages are filled with the word "machine".

Transhumanist art.

>takes three minutes to state "yeah there is no free will but we can't predict the future so we might as well call it free will"

>>1602811

Babby's first troll.

Coincidentially, yesterday I just read Ur-Fascism.

>>1589179

Luddite bullshit.

>hen I hear the term Kindle I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit. And when I hear the term "hi-tech" I think not of helpful androids efficiently performing household chores or light-speed rockets gliding seamlessly through space but of the fact that between 1933-45, modern technology was used to perform in ever more efficient ways the mass murder of six million of my people. The instruments of so-called progress, placed in the hands of the modern state, disappeared six million Jewish men, women and children, into a void from which they will never return and in which a majority of them remain forever unidentified. This was done in the name of progress by means of technology for the creation of a better world.

Sounds like a luddite AND a butthurt zionist.

>>1523405

"black chariot of pepperoni fury"

"sufficient numerical force to hijack it to America, which was all that really counted in China"

;____;

ITT: We get depressed at how we'll never be as witty as Neal Stephenson.

The Rediscovery of Man
First Landing
House of Suns
Permanence
The Diamond Age

Since when did somebody else start using the word luddite?

sex with a fictional character?hat would have to be Dors Venabili from Foundation, or Mikoyan Hidei from The wreck of the river of stars.

Oh, I almost forgot! C`mell from the stories by Cordwainer Smith >;3~~

>>1372964

Well, you can always rotate the page, but that's as good as it gets.

inb4 butthurt from people complaining about not being able to smell the pages

>battery lasts a month
>mp3 player
>3.5 gb is more than enough
>lightweight as fucking aerogel
>screen doesn't strain the eyes
>wi-fi!
>browser
>I posted on /sci/ yesterday with it

Truly one of my best purchases. I got it in friday and can't drop it.

The Rediscovery of Man

You will never regret it. It's the kind of book you could download but it's worth buying a hundred times. Seriously. Just... I just...

>>1320898

I'm saving this.

>Post furry sex scene from novel
>I WRITE LIKE ARTHUR C. CLARKE

>Post oh-so-tragic scene of relativistic terrorism
>I WRITE LIKE ARTHUR C. CLARKE

>Post First Contact
>I WRITE LIKE ARTHUR C. CLARKE