A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
Feed by MT Anderson
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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@boxofdelights What fantasy does she like? Murderbot is a solid choice
@ansate I'll ask her about what fantasy she likes tomorrow. We meet at the library, so I'll get a stack of books for her to look through!
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@boxofdelights agreed on Dune, which has become outdated to no mean degree (barring the Butlerian jihad).
Perhaps the deeply dystopian and occasionally trippy Neuromancer and subsequent novels? Got a bit of the sex stuff in so I'm not sure how shielded said teen should be, and protagonist is man but costar is badass woman.
Theoretically, Asimov is interesting, but like Herbert hasn't really stood the test of time and gotten outdated.
@boxofdelights also, yeah feed that kid Murderbot
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights For light comedy, R. Kroese, Starship Grifters?
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. (First of three, which are waiting to be read...)
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights The Lathe of Heaven
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights l love Stanslaw Lem, but that may be a bit much to get started. But how about his short stories, The Cyberiad. Here's an example (a fave of mine) of one of them. How The World Was Saved: https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the-world-was-saved
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@boxofdelights Anything by Becky Chambers. Her work is unfailingly delightful, optimistic and engaging. https://www.otherscribbles.com/
@Ooze Excellent!
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@dropbear I haven't read Service Model yet but I love all the Adrian Tchaikovsky I have read.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights I mentioned this to someone else recently, but...
I love Julie Czerneda's sci-fi books. I think my favorites are in her Species Imperative trilogy: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-species-imperative-1-julie-e-czerneda/36f8e644f506c6e2
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)'s Newsflesh trilogy?
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@Ooze Excellent!
@boxofdelights @Ooze Becky Chambers is who I was going to recommend! Especially the Wayfarers Quartet: https://wayfarers.fandom.com/wiki/Wayfarers_series. Someone else recommended him too, but @scalzi is excellent.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series, anything in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, The Expanse series by "James S.A. Corey", Ken Liu's collections The Paper Menagerie and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights If she wants fun John Scalzi, if she wants creepy Jeff VanderMeer and if she wants pro-found Ursula K Le Guin
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights For a young female reader—Ursula LeGuin of course. More recently "The Deep Sky" by Yume Kitasei or "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers.
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@boxofdelights Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)'s Newsflesh trilogy?
@moira @boxofdelights Oh I love that series!!
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Trying not to repeat anything already mentioned.
Ancillary Justice by Leckie.
The Word for World is Forest by LeGuin.
Binti by Okorafor.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Lem (or The Cyberiad).
Anything by Vonnegut -
@boxofdelights I mentioned this to someone else recently, but...
I love Julie Czerneda's sci-fi books. I think my favorites are in her Species Imperative trilogy: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-species-imperative-1-julie-e-czerneda/36f8e644f506c6e2
@kristinHenry Those are great!
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@boxofdelights Trying not to repeat anything already mentioned.
Ancillary Justice by Leckie.
The Word for World is Forest by LeGuin.
Binti by Okorafor.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Lem (or The Cyberiad).
Anything by Vonnegut@Z_Zed_Zed Excellent suggestions, thank you!
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@nachocarreras come se l'uranio non si importasse dalla.... Russia!
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@ugone non sapevo che capanna margherita non fosse in valle. Si impara sempre qualcosa!
Più facile metterne uno qui https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivacco_Luigi_Pascal
ma temo troppo freddo per le batterie di un nodo autosufficiente. @GustavinoBevilacqua
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As a software engineer and engineering manager, I am mildly concerned for my employability in the future. However, I've had a good career, with much more luck than I deserve. People in my profession have been notably pampered and paid extremely well. As automation turns its Sauron-like eye to my own industry, it's hard to say with a straight face that we have been unfairly treated. I also think that there are, and will be for the foreseeable future, a lot of options for people who like to code.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua mia nonna ogni giorno mi mandava dal prestinaio a prendere le michette (lei lo diceva in milanese)
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I think that using LLMs to create text, images, video or code is an empowering technology for a lot of people. I think especially with code, it gives people who don't code and who've never had control over their computing experience more agency in their life and work. I think that's a net positive result.
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@davep That's OK, you don't have to.
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I generally don't like LLM-generated images or video. I mostly don't like LLM-generated text -- it's usually flat, wordy, and full of business jargon. I don't use LLMs for either of these things.
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@evan hmm, I'm not seeing anything like genuine equivalence between human learning and LLM statistical output based on training data.
