Did I miss how we are supposed to get recommendations from what OP built?
Use the magnifying glass on the visualization to type in a book.
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#53Anvaka's YASIV was an extremely strong tool in this space until Amazon discontinued the API it relied on. https://twitter.com/anvaka https://twitter.com/yasivcom
Thank you. I agree :)
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#54Reminds me of https://www.literature-map.com Which is a map of all authors in the world sorted by overlap in readership. I found some of my favorite writers by browsing it. I wonder which approach is better suited to find something that is spot on to my interests. When I think of my favorite books, they usually are the most popular books of their authors. Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book th…
Whoa, this is a great resource. Never heard of it before, it looks like I'm finally able to get some proper book recommendations. Absolutely loving it.
Weird though that for certain cases it spells English author names with Cyrillic alphabet. Like for instance when I center the graph on "Stanisław Lem", I can see names like George Orwell or Terry Pratchett spelled in Cyrillic. I wonder why.
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#55Really interesting that my favorite sci-fi book, Pandora's Star is in the middle of a void in the center of a large sci-fi cluster. It explains why I couldn't find anything like it. Also very explanatory the fact the Tolkien's The Two Towers is right by its side, because I also love that book. And now I'm already downloading the other "outliers" close to Pandora's Star.
Pandora's Star has a direct sequel: Judas Unchained, and Peter F. Hamilton has other books in that (The Commonwealth) millieu.
Additional authors you might enjoy are Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Alistair Reynolds, and Jack McDevitt.
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#56Really interesting that my favorite sci-fi book, Pandora's Star is in the middle of a void in the center of a large sci-fi cluster. It explains why I couldn't find anything like it. Also very explanatory the fact the Tolkien's The Two Towers is right by its side, because I also love that book. And now I'm already downloading the other "outliers" close to Pandora's Star.
Pandora's Star has a direct sequel: Judas Unchained, and Peter F. Hamilton has other books in that (The Commonwealth) millieu. Additional authors you might enjoy are Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Alistair Reynolds, and Jack McDevitt.
Yeah, I've read the commonwealth.
But nothing like the first book, although the two are actually a single book sold separately, at least for me.
I just read a neighbor of Pandora's Star in the graph (Coyote) and enjoyed it. Note quite like pandora, but fine.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pandora's Star has a direct sequel: Judas Unchained, and Peter F. Hamilton has other books in that (The Commonwealth) millieu. Additional authors you might enjoy are Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Alistair Reynolds, and Jack McDevitt.
Yeah, I've read the commonwealth. But nothing like the first book, although the two are actually a single book sold separately, at least for me. I just read a neighbor of Pandora's Star in the graph (Coyote) and enjoyed it. Note quite like pandora, but fine.
Allen Steele's work isn't really all that similar, though I suppose Coyote and its sequels come closest. The authors I mentioned are much better bets.