mimi10v3Near and far futures dense with infrastructure: climate, networks, posthuman intelligence, orbital mechanics, language, and political economy. The best turn systems speculation into an atmosphere one must live inside.
The recorded ratings average 7.0/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Emily St. John Mandel.
A place to begin
Highest rated.
Midnight's Simulacra
Mimi’s noteMidnight's Simulacra is written by a Twitter friend @nickblack but is also just a great read with fascinating nerdy digressions and an edgy sense of humor. TW: *lots* of drug content a…
8/10Contemporary Literature : Science FictionThe Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
Mimi’s noteI read this book after seeing the Amazon Pilot for a tv series based on it. I'm sad the series wasn't made, I thought the first episode was great - interesting characters, well shot, g…
7.5/10Contemporary Literature : Science FictionAccelerando
Mimi’s noteMy rating is mostly for predicting a future of byzantine ai corporate structures and a weird mixture of virtual and meat humans - more interesting and closer to accurate imo than most s…
9/10Contemporary Literature : Science FictionSeveneves
About the bookNeal Stephenson's hard science fiction epic begins with a catastrophic event that renders Earth uninhabitable, forcing humanity to launch a desperate, last-ditch effort to preserve the…
Grouped reading
Series.
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| Open | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | — | Unread | → |
| Accelerando | Charles Stross | 2005 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Agency | William Gibson | 2020 | 7 | Read | → |
| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | 2008 | 8 | Read | → |
| Blindsight | Peter Watts | 2006 | 8 | Read | → |
| Fall; or, Dodge in Hell | Neal Stephenson | 2019 | 3 | Read | → |
| Midnight's Simulacra | Nick Black | 2018 | 9 | Read | → |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | 5 | Read | → |
| Pattern Recognition | William Gibson | 2003 | 8 | Read | → |
| Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | 2023 | — | Unread | → |
| Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel | 2022 | 7 | Read | → |
| Seveneves | Neal Stephenson | 2015 | 9 | Read | → |
| Silently and Very Fast | Catherynne M. Valente | 2011 | — | Unread | → |
| Spook Country | William Gibson | 2007 | 7 | Read | → |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 2014 | 8 | Read | → |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | 2002 | 7 | Read | → |
| Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson | 2021 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel | Michel Faber | 2014 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Electrics | Harrison Kavanaugh | 2023 | — | In catalog | → |
| The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2020 | — | Unread | → |
| The Peripheral | William Gibson | 2014 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Quantum Thief | Hannu Rajaniemi | 2010 | — | Unread | → |
| The Terranauts | T. C. Boyle | 2016 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | 2008 | 4 | Read | → |
| The Water Knife | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2015 | 7.5 | Read | → |