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"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." - which books do you think best manage to do this? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by FantasticFox@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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I posted this on Reddit a while ago and it sparked some really good discussion and recommendations.

I really like The Expanse - as it doesn't just discuss the attempted terraforming of Mars and the colonisation of the Main Asteroid Belt but also

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the way that these communities decline when abundant habitable planets are discovered, where life is much easier.

So yeah, what are your best examples?

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[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"off to be the wizard" takes the universe is a simulation trope and REALLY runs with it. I don't know if I'd call it good scifi though...

I remember being pretty impressed with "permutation city" for it's depiction of the consequences of being able to upload consciousness into machines.

[–] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't read any Greg Egan, I thought I had but I had him confused with Greg Bear. I read Eon and it was confusing as hell...