not sure which thread to put this in

[M Fnord]

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You know, going through this group more, it becomes more and more clear that this isn't a sort of futurist shared universe, per se, but rather more of a sci-fi/fantasy fan bash in space.

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Yeah, pretty much. When I dropped the first plotbunny my mental image was a hard scifi Undocumented Features, but concept mutation set in and well...
And now you know The Rest Of The Story[tm].

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oh, goody. Yeah, when wavium and hardtech are interchangeable, then it'll be good. Speaking of which, were any Thanksgiving cornucopias turned into actual femtotech cornucopias by wavium?

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Not as I'm aware, and they'd probably be the best-kept secrets in the entire Solar System if they do exist.

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Really? Sheenisov? Not very utopian, mate, especially given the way it ended up in both the timelines. Why not go Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?

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*shrug* We never got a really good close-up look in the books, but the little we see of normal Sheenisov life in Cassini Division makes for a good general model: not entirely utopian, but a highly urbanized, post-scarcity, post-capitalist and largely non-expansionist society. Kinda like what James Nicoll calls his "nightmarish future of continued prosperity." That, and Doctrow makes me itch.

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Yeah, that makes sense. Though there should be nascent gene-hackers and self-evolvers among the Fen population already, to give Black Monolith and Kuiper credence.

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There's a couple who've been highlighted so far, like the Jason, though if you're still slogging through the threads you might not have come across him yet. Oddly enough, he's also the first person to come up with something resembling primitive computronium...

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I literally couldn't finish Slan given just how friggin' whiny the main character was.

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