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The Egg (2009)
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#42Is there any website of more science fiction extra-short stories that are this short? I know sci-fi might not be the preferred term for stories that are this philosophical or borderline religious, but I don't know a better term.
I don't know of a website. But I bet there are published collections out there though I don't have one.
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Then why are you in this thread
I will never fail to be amused by people here and on Reddit who spend their calories diving into discussions about things they don't like to tell people they don't like them.
If they actually take the time to write a thoughtful critique, that's one thing. But just saying they don't like something really doesn't add to the discussion.
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#44I asked Weir about the The Egg at a signing and whether he planned to write anything similar- I got a weird vibe back, "I shat it out over a weekend" - like be kinda resented it or possibly just people asking about it.
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Funny coincidence - I just finished the Project Hail Mary audiobook this morning and loved it. Any recommendations for the next audiobook?
Mickey7 is pretty good if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Alternatively, the Murderbot series.
On the vein of similar books, in the late 80s, early 90's a read a science fiction anthology that had more or less the same exact story as Mickey7.
Humans discover a place (I think on Mars), built by Aliens, but it's a deathtrap. So they send someone in to navigate the deathtrap using a clone, and a sort of remote control (something like Avatar).
Each time the clone dies, the person piloting it survives, but has gained the memory of what went wrong, and can try again (kind of like Edge of Tomorrow).
The point of the story is the very end, when the pilot makes it fully through the space.
Has anoyone every heard of this storay and know the name/author? (Bonus points of you know the anthology as well)
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#46I can't recommend this author enough. Project Hail Mary and The Martian are amazing works of science fiction. Project Hail Mary is actually amazing as an audiobook.
I enjoyed The Martian (novel and movie) but I didn't care for Artemis or Project Hail Mary. I thought the characters and dialogue were fairly weak, even though the underlying ideas were clever. Also I thought that "main character amnesia" was a frustrating plot device (in PHM). Overall, his authorial voice reminds me a lot of YouTube hosts? Perhaps that's just the cultural moment we're in.
I like his concepts, and his stories, but agree about the characters. Every single one of them talks like a snarky sarcastic white dude. All the side characters in The Martian, the teenage girl in Artemis, and the rock alien in Project Hail Mary, all speak in the same voice, that of a jokey middle-aged dad.
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#47Related, some past submissions:
- 2018, 51 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17145811
- 2014, 153 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203095
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#48I asked Weir about the The Egg at a signing and whether he planned to write anything similar- I got a weird vibe back, "I shat it out over a weekend" - like be kinda resented it or possibly just people asking about it.
Honestly I am not surprised. I imagine he wrote it quickly as this fun quirky look at the universe but then it got extremely popular, kurzgesatz video released and all. A lot of people based their personal beliefs off of the story.
Imagine you write a small story for fun but then it becomes nearly a religion. It must be a little frustrating for Andy.
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#49Is there any website of more science fiction extra-short stories that are this short? I know sci-fi might not be the preferred term for stories that are this philosophical or borderline religious, but I don't know a better term.
"The Machine Stops" is one that is always in my memory - not quite as short as this, but very short nonetheless. And impressive given that it was written in 1909:
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...
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Mickey7 is pretty good if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Alternatively, the Murderbot series.
On the vein of similar books, in the late 80s, early 90's a read a science fiction anthology that had more or less the same exact story as Mickey7. Humans discover a place (I think on Mars), built by Aliens, but it's a deathtrap. So they send someone in to navigate the deathtrap using a clone, and a sort of remote control (something like Avatar). Each time the clone dies, the person piloting it survives, but has gain…
I answered my own question! It's called Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budry, and was in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two