How have I never read Vernor Vinge before? I'm almost done with "A Deepness in the Sky" and it is so good! #vernorvinge #scifi #sciencefiction

Does anyone have good examples of #HardSF that explores the concepts of alien software? I'm thinking of something like #VernorVinge's #AFireUponTheDeep, but where there's a little more meat on the bone of what a truly alien approach to computation might be like? #ScienceFiction

Anyone ever read that #VernorVinge novel, A fire upon the deep? It was from the 90s and one of the bits I still remember from it are excerpts from the interstellar equivalent of newsgroups, someone regularly posting (paraphrase, the original was in all caps lol) “we just got the days old news, we’re on a poorly connected subspace node, did anyone see my earlier post?”.

I was reading it in the 2000s and was like “haha nice throwback grandpa tech marches on”.

Welp. https://mstdn.social/@kissane/109560251643943342 😆

Okay folks, help me out! See the bracket below? We are voting for the upper right four options.

You can access the poll by clicking my profile and then the pinned toot. Or you can access it via this link (if you're already on Mastodon.Social): https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109462626719773768

WHICH OF THESE FOUR IS THE BEST (IYHO)??
#ZonesOfThought by #VernorVinge

#Honorverse by #DavidWeber

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#KnownSpace (includ. #ManKzinWars) by #LarryNiven

#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #scifi

Time now for the THIRD #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera series #poll

VOTE BELOW!!

Poll One: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109379340476225064
Poll Two: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109419498380717272

WHICH OF THESE FOUR IS THE BEST (IYHO)??
#ZonesOfThought by #VernorVinge

#Honorverse by #DavidWeber

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#KnownSpace (includ. #ManKzinWars) by #LarryNiven

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@RachaelKJones

"It is very dark, and the temperature is dropping" for just a second I thought you were circling the On-Off Star in which case uh oh

#FictiveFlashback #ScienceFiction #VernorVinge

An interview with #VernorVinge on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his paper 'The Coming Technological #Singularity'. https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/author-vernor-vinge-proposing-a-singular-view-of-technologys-future/

#relevanttomyinterests