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Cover art for Greg Egan's Quarantine by Philippe 'Manchu' Bouchet.
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Cover art for Greg Egan's Quarantine by Philippe 'Manchu' Bouchet.
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Science Fiction Stories mentioned by Tom Scott
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his newsletter π
LILY, THE IMMORTAL by Kylie Lee Baker (2022)
14 science fiction stories in under 6 minutes π
ACCELERANDO by Charles Stross (2010)
EVERYONE IN SILICO by Jim Munroe (2002) (also mentioned here)
BIT PLAYERS by Greg Egan (2014) (also mentioned in his newsletter)
LENA by qntm (2021)
THE AGE OF EM by Robin Hanson (2016)
Books We've Read That You Might Like π
PERMUTATION CITY by Greg Egan (1994)
DIASPORA by Greg Egan (1997)
ORTHOGANAL (series) by Greg Egan (2011-2013)
Tom Scott: Fast fashion, the future of football, nice sci-fi π
PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson (2003)
THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL, ANGRY PLANET by Becky Chambers (2014)
Lateral Podcast π
NEW POMPEII by Daniel Godfrey (2016) (from #129)
We Can Be Weirdos #66Β π
FINE STRUCTURE by qntm (2006-2010)
RA by qntm (2011-2014) (also mentioned here)
WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE by John Scalzi (2025)
DARK MATTER by Blake Crouch (2016)
RECURSION by Blake Crouch (2019)
THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE by Douglas Adams (1980)
DICHRONAUTS by Greg Egan (2017)
CRYSTAL NIGHTS by Greg Egan (2008)
this Insta reel from Nebula π
THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS by Micaiah Johnson (2021) (also mentioned in his newsletter)
Behind The Scenes of Tom Passing Out In A Centrifuge π
SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson (1992)
Blocking People in Real Life: Tom Scott at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail π
THE CITY AND THE CITY by China MiΓ©ville (2009)
Corridor Cast #6 π
POSTSINGULAR by Rudy Rucker (2007)
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is. π
THE DEMOLISHED MAN by Alfred Bester (1952) (also mentioned here)
Does the language you speak change how you think? π
STORY OF YOUR LIFE by Ted Chiang (1998) NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell (1949)
Crash Blossoms and Being Drunk: Ambiguity π
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams (1978)
We Answer Your Questions #HighQualitySockContent π
THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST by Claire North (2014)
Ten years ago, I predicted 2022. Did I get it right? π
THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD by Kevin Brockmeier (2007)
Finished reading Bruce Springsteen's autobiography. Now reading Diaspora by Greg Egan.
I have varied tastes in books.
βImagine ... a universe entirely without structure, without shape, without connections. A cloud of microscopic events, like fragments of space-time β¦ except that there is no space or time. What characterizes one point in space, for one instant? Just the values of the fundamental particle fields, just a handful of numbers. Now, take away all notions of position, arrangement, order, and what's left? A cloud of random numbers. 'That's it. That's all there is. The cosmos has no shape at all β no such thing as time or distance, no physical laws, no cause and effect. 'But ... if the pattern that is me could pick itself out from all the other events taking place on this planet... why shouldn't the pattern we think of as "the universe" assemble itself, find itself, in exactly the same way? If I can piece together my own coherent space and time from data scattered so widely that it might as well be part of some giant cloud of random numbers ... then what makes you think that you're not doing the very same thing?'
Greg Egan, Permutation City
'together, we might as well have been alone, so we had no choice but to part. nobody wants to spend eternity alone.'
greg egan, 'closer' (1992).
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It's unfortunate how bad Greg Egan is at character writing especially when so many of his stories revolve around people with unusual opinions or psychological quirks. Border Guards features a character who's rude and aloof for unclear reasons, which made me sickos.png, but then at the climax when she delivers the exposition she reverts to the default Greg Egan voice and her personality deflates. I read this story before and still remembered the quantum football but if he had stuck the landing I might have remembered both that character and the crux of the story.
greg egan novel bingo
"...fell into perfect alignment with all the immutable rules of all the levels beneath it. Like a punched card fed into a Jacquard loom, it ceased to be an abstract message and became a part of the machine"