adrianhon, 2 months ago RIP to a real one. Practically everything he wrote was decades ahead of its time, not to mention superbly entertaining and deeply humanist. https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/
RIP to a real one. Practically everything he wrote was decades ahead of its time, not to mention superbly entertaining and deeply humanist. https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/
adrianhon, 2 months ago Lots of people sharing their love of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, but don't miss Rainbows End. It's perhaps a less successful story but remains, after almost two decades, the best description of what augmented reality games and ARGs might do to the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)
Lots of people sharing their love of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, but don't miss Rainbows End.
It's perhaps a less successful story but remains, after almost two decades, the best description of what augmented reality games and ARGs might do to the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)
cstross, 2 months ago @adrianhon That's the book that "Halting State" lost to in the 2007 Hugo awards. (Which was also about AR and ARGs, and also espionage and crime.)
@adrianhon That's the book that "Halting State" lost to in the 2007 Hugo awards. (Which was also about AR and ARGs, and also espionage and crime.)
pdcawley, 2 months ago @adrianhon @cstross Rainbows End is the one that lives in my head more than the rest of his books (though they all have their places in there). Every time autocorrect fucks up again, I find myself wishing for the kind of interfaces described in Rainbows End.
@adrianhon @cstross Rainbows End is the one that lives in my head more than the rest of his books (though they all have their places in there).
Every time autocorrect fucks up again, I find myself wishing for the kind of interfaces described in Rainbows End.
cstross, 2 months ago @pdcawley @adrianhon But NOT the approach to library digitization!
@pdcawley @adrianhon But NOT the approach to library digitization!
brab, 2 months ago @adrianhon I really liked it, but I remember wishing for the story of how they arrived to a post-scarcity world
@adrianhon I really liked it, but I remember wishing for the story of how they arrived to a post-scarcity world
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