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Mind-melting books

Molly Millions · 2017-06-14 01:11
Post pdf's, links, and/or reviews of books that really fuarrrked with your brain. Diaspora is probably the best example I have personally read. A view of what happens 100 years after the singularity and humanity is a small segment of the population. Plus some really out-there make-believe theoretical physics and n-dimenstional mathematics. Greg Egan has a lot of stuff like this. http://gregegan.net/DIASPORA/DIASPORA.html for more
Just another Random Lainon · 2017-06-14 01:17
*800, sorry
Project 2501 · 2017-06-14 02:05
I don't know if it's mind-bending, but it kind of opens up your view on things. I'm talking about the Black Iron Prison. There's a second one, but I haven't read it. Perhaps I'll do that now
Rick Deckard · 2017-06-14 07:53
>>1021 Post it?
Liet Kynes · 2017-06-21 18:20
>>1016 http://multivax.com/last_question.html
Unsigned · 2017-06-21 18:32
Diaspora is one of my favourites. Quarantine is also phenomenal, it's playing around with quantum mechanics.
H.R. Giger · 2017-06-21 20:43
>>1052 http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/
Anonymous · 2017-06-22 01:13
Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem continually fuarrrks with me. The shooter/farmer conundrums and Trisolarian culture are pretty entertaining food for thought tbh. Can't wait to get my hands on the rest of the triology tbh.
Anonymous · 2017-06-22 17:44
Knots, by R.D. Laing
Mentat · 2017-06-29 13:08
>>1016 That isn't the full text is it? Or are the chapters just numbered anachronistically like that?
Chani · 2017-06-29 18:59
>>1083 no, it's samples
Hiro Protagonist · 2017-07-02 06:48
https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Beach-James-Patrick-Kelly/dp/0812543009 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2455342.Smallcreep_s_Day https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-395-40048-7 These three really resonated, and parts keep haunting me decades later. Kind of like PTSD, something will trigger a flashback...
Frank Garza · 2017-07-08 16:28
>>1058 do so
Cutter · 2017-11-01 22:52
Ubik by Phillip K. Dick tripped me up
Apoc · 2017-11-02 03:57
>>1024 I'm not him, but here is what I got in my BIP folder