Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Actually, I realized I am lying. I did actually steal one thing: A copy of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book", which I stole from a bookstore in college and gave away to a random person (having read my parents' copy already).

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Neal Stephenson's view on war, technology, and industrial policy, from Cryptonomicon: https://t.co/d84q0xhzVX

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The list (part 2): 6. Tales of the Ketty Jay, by Chris Wooding 7. The Neverness Cycle, by David Zindell 8. The Mirror of Her Dreams + A Man Rides Through, by Stephen R. Donaldson 9. The Coldfire trilogy, by C.S. Friedman 10. The Alliance-Union Universe, by C.J. Cherryh

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@csilverandgold Gary Gerstle has a cogent argument as to when and how it shifted, in his book American Crucible. Basically, the argument is that the 60s and 70s mortally wounded that old hegemony, though its fall from power was not immediate.

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The list (part 3): 11. The Hero and the Crown + The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley 12. The Lyonesse trilogy, by Jack Vance 13. All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders Happy reading!! 🪄🚀 (end)

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A Deepness in the Sky... doesn’t take technological progress for granted — it shows how institutions and individual actors interact to drive innovation... Deepness also has some of the very best villains I’ve ever encountered in any book, and the plotting is just genius.

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What sets the Vorkosigan saga apart is not just the unique characters, the fleshed-out world, and the extremely well-paced plotting. ... Most speculative universes are places I enjoy reading about; Bujold’s is one I would actually want to live in.

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Elizabeth Economy is an extremely knowledgeable and skilled writer, and a perennially great source of China news and analysis... If you’re interested in China’s competitive strategy and you want a backgrounder on what it’s been trying to do [in recent] years, grab a copy...

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A tour de force... “True Names” created many of the tropes about artificial intelligence and virtual worlds that have now become standard... and it’s often considered the founding work of the entire cyberpunk genre.

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Yes, the All Thing from Hyperion is one of the only reasonably accurate forecasts of social media I've ever seen from sci-fi authors. The other being in David Brin's "Earth". https://t.co/2D0SBfNEZD