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Good article. Anyone here a fan of Greg Egan? I found "Schild's Ladder" the best piece of Sci-Fi I ever read. Can anyone suggest similar authors?

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Did you read Blindsight by Peter Watts? It has, among other things, a 100-item scientific bibliography in the end.

The Three Body Problem is reasonably good, and comes from a Chinese author Link to NPR article about it because I'd rather you chose your own bookshop. http://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363123510/three-body-problem-a...

I can't recommend this book and it's follow up enough! The description of a machine made of a single particle unfolding into higher dimensions is one of my favorite passages in recent sci-fi. I think the last book in the trilogy is out, but haven't had time to read it yet.

Hannu Rajaniemi, Ted Chiang and Neal Stephenson come to mind as hard sci-fi authors worthy of comparison to Greg Egan.

Schild's Ladder looks really cool. Thanks for the reference.

Meanwhile, any William Gibson fans out there? The description of cyberspace in the Sprawl Trilogy is still one of the most compelling visions of the future of humanity and computers I have ever read. We're still only a fraction of the way down that path.

I'd like to know this as well. I've never found anything quite like Greg Egan.

Some works of Vernor Vinge maybe.

I love Egan and have read most of his stuff. Two of my favorites are Diaspora and Permutation City.

This question has been put to /r/printsf a couple of times [1], [2] with a decent range of answers.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/33mjz9/looking_for...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/29o35b/who_are_som...

Have you tried Alastair Reynolds? One of the best hard sci-fi writers I’ve come across.

Would you recommend someone new to Reynolds start with Revelation Space or the Poseidon's Children trilogy?

I haven't read Poseidon's Children, but Revelation Space was amazing despite the fact that I'm a bigger fan of more optimistic and less gritty SciFi. The first book is really good and I read several others as well. Fantastic world-building.

Pushing Ice. It's a one-off and excellent taste test in case you don't want to commit to a series.

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