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Splicer posted:Looking for some apocalypse fiction where the majority if not all of the book takes place as poo poo Is Going Down. I want to read about one or more people holing up in an apartment carefully rationing food for 300 pages. Alas Babylon is about people in a small town dealing with the effects of a nuclear war being fought elsewhere. When Worlds Collide is about rogues planets causing stuff like earthquakes and tsunamis as scientists try to make a spaceship they can escape in. Level 7 is about people living in an automated bunker where they are always waiting for the order to fire nuclear missiles (and eventually the order comes, of course).
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Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp is about a 20th century man who is transported back to 6th century Italy, and he decides to change history and prevent the post-Roman world from falling apart. He's able to create some advanced technology like a printing press, but he fails at other attempts and knows that some technology would be impossible for him to recreate. A lot of alternate history stories were directly inspired by the book, like "The Man Who Came Early" by Poul Anderson, in which a 20th century man goes back to 10th century Iceland. There's also "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass" by Frederik Pohl, in which a man goes back in time and introduces modern medicine, but as a result by the 20th century the planet is hopelessly overpopulated, so someone else must invent a time machine to go back and restore things to the way they were.
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coolusername posted:I'm looking for non-depressing light sci-fi or fantasy reads that are well written but aren't going to take a lot of brainpower to process, and with at least nominally happy endings - YA or adult both fine. Anything that fits the template of "team of conflicting strangers pulls together and in the end forms a new family" or "two enemies are forced to team up and fall in like/love" will probably land well, or anything similar to Martha Well's Murderbot novella, Becky Chamber's wayfarers trilogy, Catherynne Valente's Space Opera, Terry Pratchett in general, etc. But heavy priority on the 'easy to read/low brain power' requirements: while it doesn't have to be dumb, it can't be a China-Mieville-making-sweet-love-to-an-art-gallery-brochure type of read. Some of Jack Vance's books would probably fit. Showboat World would be a good one.
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Kvlt! posted:Looking for really strange, bizarre, out there science fiction. Stuff like stories set incredibly far into the future that most things are foreign to us, or things in space that are strange beyond reality. The more esoteric and psychedelic the better. Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker covers the history of the universe from beginning to end and is full of trippy, out-there stuff, especially for something written in the 1930s. You should read his earlier book Last and First Men first, though.
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ScienceSeagull posted:I'm interested in sci-fi that explores the culture and thought processes of intelligent beings that are very different from humans (animals, aliens, artificial intelligences, whatever), such as Le Guin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds." Also nonfiction and philosophy that touches on similar ideas, e.g. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. Blindsight, maybe Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, maybe Olaf Stapledon's future humans.
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Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide to Algebra, Cartoon Guide to Geometry, and Cartoon Guide to Calculus.
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