Permutation City (1994)
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Permutation City (1994)
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Re: Permutation City (1994)
#2Pretty awesome book.
Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#3Yup, I enjoy this book.
If you enjoy it, too, might I recommend Fool's War by Sarah Zettel. It's more of a Space Opera, but some similar themes to Permutation City pop up in it...
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#4Pretty awesome book. Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.
Yeah, this book was incredible and the tech in it has aged extremely well. Have you tried any of Ted Chiang's books? They're also great hard sci-fi.
Another one that plays with similar ideas to Permutation City is the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor.
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#5Pretty awesome book. Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.
My fav sci-fi books are:
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Highly recommended
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#6My book review from last September:
> Reads like a “consciousness and computers are cool” story written by an engineer. A few incredible ideas padded by weak storytelling and philosophical exposition. Probably would’ve been better as a short story.
[0] https://taylor.town/books#permutation-city
If you like this book, I recommend Accelerando, Piranesi, Dick's Ubik, and Ted Chiang's collections.
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#7Pretty awesome book. Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.
If you enjoyed Permutation City, you‘d probably also like „The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect“ by Roger Williams!
It explores a similar premise of a post-singularity future (though the mechanism is superintelligence rather than cellular automata/mind uploading), but rather than imagining exactly how we‘d get there, it tries to imagine what human flourishing would look like in a world of perfect abundance!
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#8I loved this book. It’s the sort of book that made me occasionally pause and think about the ideas presented in it. Boltzmann brains still fascinate me. The spot market for CPU power was visionary. When reading it again when I was older I only found the characters a bit weak.
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#9A timeless classic.
Re: Permutation City (1994)
#10Pretty awesome book. Would be cool if someone could recommend sci-fi that equally good.
It's an oldie (1977), but plays with some similar ideas and I think it really holds up: The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley.