Sci-Fi Literature Recommendations
Commenters recommend science fiction novels, novellas, short stories, and authors whose works share themes or premises with the original post's concept.
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Although it's been done before, I suspect you were reading a M.R. Forbes novel :P
Obligatory shout-out to the novella of the same name, by HN user (and, obviously, Actual Author) Charles Stross.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest_(novella)
The author is Eliezer Yudkowsky [http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction], who has also written other interesting fiction like the one about baby-eating aliens (Three Worlds Collide).
Try this writer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward
Also employed in The Stars My Destination. Criminally underappreciated writer.
The same primary author just recently published a novel as well. If you enjoy the writing style of the readme/faq you may enjoy it too. Feels like it might be a good vacation read.midnight's simulacra https://a.co/d/8tcx82V
Or maybe Steppenwolf by the same author.
The story by Frederic Brown that the article mentions:https://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/Etaoin-Shrdlu
You might like http://unsongbook.com/, a novel based on this premise.
The original maintainer went on to write a sci-fi novel