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Anyone have recommendations for similar authors?

I love how his stories grow in scope (one discovery plausibly leads to another and eventually interdimensional travel). I know Adrian Tchaikovsky is a popular recommendation around here (especially Children of Time and rightfully so), but I'm looking for something with less drama / less character-driven. The 3 body problem is a good example.

Also tangential but I recommend trying Last and First Idol for anyone looking for ridiculous, gory, self-consistent sci-fi.

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Take a look at qntm [0], who writes very disturbing short stories. He is also a coder, notably of the famous hatetris game.

[0] http://qntm.org

Sadly that's another author I'm already caught up with. His SCP series was really memorable though.

You're telling me the antimemetics series was memorable? I guess it was bad then ;)?

Accelerando by Charles Stross is a blast, fairly hard scifi, at least the first half.

Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.

> "Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." — JDN

Agree. And whenever I see someone recommend Peter Watts I feel the need to add a note warning that he's got a lot of sexual torture stuff in his work so might not be to everyone's taste.

...There's sexual torture content in Blindsight? Or in his short stories? Having read several of them, I really don't remember anything like that. Can you note some examples?

It's off-page in Blindsight, but happens to the protagonist, right?

I'd rather not. That stuff isn't my cup of tea. Why don't you just google it.

I think they are talking about the trilogy with Starfish

As opposed to the tortuous sex in Ayn Rand.

Who's JDN?

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com

A little different, but Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton scratches the same itch for me.