Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?

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Post by Uhhrrr » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:01 PM UTC

"When HARLIE Was One" by David Gerrold had a fair amount of technical detail IIRC. Also "Destination: Void" by Frank Herbert.

Re: Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?

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Post by berbec » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:05 PM UTC

The Manifold Series by Stephen Baxter are some of the hardest SciFi books I've ever read.

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Post by berbec » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:06 PM UTC

stesch wrote: post #7

erikj wrote: post #5

Is Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos hard enough?

This isn't hard Science Fiction. Definition on Wikipedia: Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction

It may not be Hard, but it's great writing.

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Post by bglusman » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:07 PM UTC

It's half novel, half related series of 9 short stories, but Accelerando is great. The Martian by Andy Weir (movie based on it) was quite good. Daemon I think also qualifies, though it's SF dressed up as a thriller. Oh, Blood Music by Greg Bear probably counts? Except maybe the ending?

Tempted to mention The Diamond Age, but not sure that qualifies as "Hard", though closer than some other Stephenson maybe...

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Post by ziofill » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

"Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan

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Post by cakins » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:09 PM UTC

The Crystal Trilogy (Society, Mentality, Eternity) might prove interesting.

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Post by mansr » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:09 PM UTC

d-crane wrote: post #3

Greg Egan's Diaspora starts with the details of what it's like for a new AI to be brought into existence in a society of advanced AIs, and jumps off from there. Definitely one of the more original hard sci-fi novels I've read.

His Permutation City is also good.

Re: Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?

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Post by aashu_dwivedi » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

What's hard Scifi?

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Post by revicon » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:11 PM UTC

The entire Gridlinked series by Neal Asher is set in a universe where AIs run government and are generally interacting with humans in a space opera / secret agent series of books, quite good IMO

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Post by analogic » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

kuwze wrote: post #4

There is Manna[0] by Marshall Brain. [0]: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

I think of this pretty much every time automationy type stuff gets discussed on here.