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Julia
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Re: Julia
#32Needs a twist or a reason to care about the characters.
They're the last living humans, and the last human-derived mind? I like Cordwainer Smith and Peter Watts; so I really liked this blend of their styles and subjects.
I adore Peter Watts, so I'll be checking out Smith then!
Watts is like brain candy, keeps my mind buzzing from all the ideas for weeks. Charles Stross can have the same effect, a sort of future shock.
Re: Julia
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right there with you. Everyone else on HN is a genius so will love it, but for me this is just incoherent words.
I'm not a genius at all, and didn't realize this story was about "Julia sets" until I finished reading it and came back here for the comments. I was pretty sure that Julia was something like the 4D space bubble found in the Three Body Problem series. I just enjoyed the prose in the story. Those incoherent words were the interesting bits of worldbuilding that drew me in.
Despite the name, I wouldn't say it is "about" Julia sets, at least not any more than it is about any other kind of fractal
Re: Julia
#34i'm reminded of the film Annihilation, especially the entity encountered at the end.
Re: Julia
#35FYI Don't miss out on the .
goddamn, almost missed out such a cool extra layer, thanks for the tip!
Re: Julia
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're the last living humans, and the last human-derived mind? I like Cordwainer Smith and Peter Watts; so I really liked this blend of their styles and subjects.
I adore Peter Watts, so I'll be checking out Smith then! Watts is like brain candy, keeps my mind buzzing from all the ideas for weeks. Charles Stross can have the same effect, a sort of future shock.
Cordwainer Smith's style and subject matter is quite different from Watts; I felt this story was like a combination of the two.
So, if you would like this story even if it was less eschatalogically cynical, and had more of a golden age setting, you'll probably like Smith!