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I can recommend the excellent novels Concrete Island [0] and High-Rise [1] from the same author.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Island

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Rise_(novel)

I mean that author is JG Ballard, he’s a legend with many classic works. There’s like at least two or three dozen articles, short story collections and novels of his that are worth reading. He’s one of the top dystopian fiction writers of all time.

Yeah, "Crash" comes immediately to mind.

is that really dystopian? is more kink by way of Paul Virilio

(You're right—I was responding I guess simply to the author's name, not the genre being discussed).

Now there’s a name you don’t see every day on HN

is one that should show up more, IMO.

AI is proving his (mostly half-cocked) theories about speed correct.

like a lot of the post-moderns he's 50-75% full of shit, but there are kernels of truth in there.

Also “High-Rise” movie

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