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Old 09-08-2004, 07:48 PM   #5 (permalink)
Lunaverde
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Re: Science fiction depicting our near future

I just read a couple of good books on future human societies, post-Singularity, lots of nanotech, downloading personalities to reload them into new bodies after death, etc -- "The Cassini Division" and "Newton's Wake" by Ken MacLeod.
Very well-done explorations of the evolution of human society and our technology. I read someplace that he won an award for the Best Libertarian SF Novel -- had no clue there was such an award to win, and don't know which of his novels won it, but I can see why. He has good descriptions of anarcho-socialist and anarcho-capitalist societies. Plus the Non-cooperators, who live in the ruins of London and (gasp, choke) still run a Capitalist Economy! Anyway, his books are worth reading. The dangers and delights of the paths our technology is heading down. Quite sophisticated, and I plan to read more from him.

I particularly liked the woman who was downloaded into a robot body, and thus was able to fulfill her dream and cling to the outside of a starship as it travelled through space...

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