From: Avatar Polymorph (way@warehouse.net)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 02:56:10 MDT
***all-time fav sci-fi:
A Maze of Death
Phillip K. Dick
real extropian too...***
Some favourites:
Macroscope, Piers Anthony
334, Thomas Disch
Sirius, Olaf Stapledon
Radix, A.A. Anastasio
Inverted World, Chris Priest (analogue for the Singularity)
Inside Outside, Phil Farmer
Feersum Enjin, Iain M. Banks
only scratching the surface of course
Greg Egan is transhumanist-aware (e.g. Distress) but not fully
Singularity-aware until latest novel (though some short stories verge on
it, e.g. the one with neuron-by-neuron replacement of brain leading to
superstrong materials invulnerability. Careful examination of many SF
works shows clear prophetic understandings from certain angles. E.g. The
City and the Stars.
Avatar Polymorph, 11 August, 29 after Armstrong
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