Ask post: Recommend me some good post-apocalyptic movies and books

here's my list from way back :P along with the road and children of men, i'd add the dying earth by jack vance and diaspora by greg egan (altho this might be classified as post-apolcalyptic's sister genre post-singularity fiction). oh and i guess dan simmon's hyperion series.

cheers!
posted to Ask Metafilter by kliuless at 3:06 PM on June 29, 2008

Ask post: Women writing SciFi: Your Picks?

hmmmm, scanning the list...

for me, the lathe of heaven and the dispossesed by ursula k. leguin

a wrinkle in time, of course, by the late madeleine l'engle

and for fantasy the blue sword by robin mckinley and interview with the vampire by anne rice

oh and anthem by ayn rand! altho that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kliuless at 5:37 AM on February 8, 2008

oh hey and, fwiw, dorris lessing just won the nobel prize! i guess, in part, for her science fiction sequence canopus in argos, altho it too "as a whole falls into categories of social or soft science fiction due to its focus on human characters and social-cultural issues, and its de-emphasis of the details of scientific technology" :P
posted to Ask Metafilter by kliuless at 6:11 AM on February 8, 2008

Ask post: Is there a word that means "knowing something solely by references to it?"

fwiw, i thought mediated by thomas de zengotita was pretty good... btw, i think a lot of the idea of plucking things out of stuff floating around in the aether noosphere can be traced back to carl jung and his concept of synchronicity, e.g. the independent development of the calculus by leibniz and newton :P

cheers!... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kliuless at 7:11 AM on February 4, 2008

Ask post: "closer" in egan's axiomatic as well!...

"closer" in egan's axiomatic as well! (also similar to haldeman's "feedback" in none so blind :)
posted to Ask Metafilter by kliuless at 9:09 PM on December 15, 2004

Ask post: children's books i've read recently that i thought...

children's books i've read recently that i thought were really good, 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time' by mark haddon is about a crime-solving autistic boy and 'the boy who reversed himself' by william sleator (who authored 'interstellar pig' :) a great look at higher dimensional beings for young adults!

for other SF, if you liked the matrix and dark city, 'permutation city' by greg egan [warning! like richard powers, it's a "literature of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kliuless at 10:11 PM on December 16, 2003