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Re: Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?

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Post by theGeatZhopa »

"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan: primarily takes place in a futuristic Bay Area, including San Francisco. explores a world of technology, body swapping, and cyber intrigues.

"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson: a setting in a future San Francisco, handle topic nanotechnology

"Counting Heads" by David Marusek: futuristic vision of San Francisco, focus on technology and AI.

"Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz: not exclusively in San Francisco, handles AI, piracy, and corporate control.

Why explicit San Francisco? :) Taking the possibilities into account, there's might be no San Francisco anymore in some near distant future. Watch San Andreas for that. We'll need Dwayne Johnson in the future, as he's experienced being that one role player. Hahahaha

Re: Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?

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Post by solardev »

theGeatZhopa wrote: post #3

"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan: primarily takes place in a futuristic Bay Area, including San Francisco. explores a world of technology, body swapping, and cyber intrigues. "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson: a setting in a future San Francisco, handle topic nanotechnology "Counting Heads" by David Marusek: futuristic vision of San Francisco, focus on technology and AI. "Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz: not ex…

I didn't know Altered Carbon was a book. I loved the show on Netflix!

Re: Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?

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Post by noirbot »

blululu wrote: post #6

The Bridge Trilogy by William Gibson (technically cyberpunk but close enough). Virtual light and all tomorrow’s parties in particular.

Parts of his new series takes place in SF - The Peripheral and Agency. I'd be more specific, but it's somewhat spoilers.

Re: Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?

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Post by lxgr »

theGeatZhopa wrote: post #3

"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan: primarily takes place in a futuristic Bay Area, including San Francisco. explores a world of technology, body swapping, and cyber intrigues. "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson: a setting in a future San Francisco, handle topic nanotechnology "Counting Heads" by David Marusek: futuristic vision of San Francisco, focus on technology and AI. "Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz: not ex…

Diamond Age was great, but isn’t that mostly set in/offshore of Shanghai?

Re: Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?

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Post by lxgr »

solardev wrote: post #4
theGeatZhopa wrote: post #3

"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan: primarily takes place in a futuristic Bay Area, including San Francisco. explores a world of technology, body swapping, and cyber intrigues. "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson: a setting in a future San Francisco, handle topic nanotechnology "Counting Heads" by David Marusek: futuristic vision of San Francisco, focus on technology and AI. "Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz: not ex…

I didn't know Altered Carbon was a book. I loved the show on Netflix!

As somebody who often likes books more than movies/shows, this one was unfortunately the exception. Somehow it didn’t click with me, even though I loved the first season of the show.

I think I went into reading the book with the expectation of learning much more about the background of the world, and I did, but unfortunately that left me with more plot holes that the show managed to navigate around better.

The show also converted somebody we only hear from in the form of quotes about a past rebellion to a present figure and main character which I then missed in the book.

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