Sci-Fi Book Recommendations

Users in this cluster recommend numerous science fiction novels, stories, and authors whose plots or themes resemble the concept discussed in the original post.

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mindcrime Jul 21, 2018 View on HN

Could you be thinking of this comment:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392748("The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin)or maybe this one:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391451("Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson)If not, I'd poke around some more l

arethuza Mar 18, 2021 View on HN

Have you read Diaspora by Greg Egan?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Metacelsus Aug 8, 2021 View on HN

Wasn't there a Greg Egan science fiction book about this?

elil17 Jun 13, 2024 View on HN

That would be so awesome! Reminds me of the sci-fi book “Children of Time”

michaelfeathers Dec 21, 2012 View on HN

This sounds like a plot line in Charles Stross's Accelerando.

yuncun Oct 4, 2016 View on HN

Sounds like the plot of Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. (I'm not done with it yet tho, so maybe not)

rcthompson Mar 31, 2016 View on HN

If you want to read a sci-fi exploration of a similar idea, pick up Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. (I can't say more than that without spoiling things.)

jobigoud May 22, 2021 View on HN

Is this a reference to Seveneves by Neil Stephenson?

JPLeRouzic Mar 14, 2025 View on HN

It reminds me "The currents of space" by Asimov:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Currents_of_Space

zeofig Jan 22, 2018 View on HN

The scifi novel "Spin" explores something a bit like this. Pretty cool.