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Noam Blum 🚑 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The neontaster || Cohost of the @ambXover podcast and of All Crossed Out on @getcallin || also see @neon2ster ||

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Book Cover for: Blindsight, Peter Watts

Blindsight

Peter Watts
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@EveryNobody @misterj880 The novel Blindsight by Peter Watts explores similar concepts and is pretty disturbing.

Paperback, 2020

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu
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Man, Cixin Liu's suggestion in The Dark Forest that humanity would all die to an alien attack because global fights about equity would prevent us from ever deciding who gets to go on the space ships that would flee is so fucking on point and he wrote it in 2008.

Paperback, 2016

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Swan Song, Robert McCammon

Swan Song

Robert McCammon
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SWAN SONG by Robert McCammon is the post-apocalyptic adaptation that we need right now. A book I sometimes compare it to THE STAND, and it's criminally obscure. https://t.co/QlEdsKajvk https://t.co/AdLp1EnFqn

Paperback, 2023

$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Revenger, Alastair Reynolds

Revenger

Alastair Reynolds
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@0K_ultra This image made me think of "The Bones" from Alastair Reynolds' Revenger. It's an arcane communicator that's an ancient alien skull with machinery inside that you port into and can sense other people on other ships doing the same thing. This is how it's depicted on the cover: https://t.co/fr73FDevwp

Paperback, 2017

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rhythm of War: Book Four of the Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson

Rhythm of War: Book Four of the Stormlight Archive

Brandon Sanderson
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Maaaaan, the epilogue to Rhythm of War... Is Brandon Sanderson a Madoka fan?

Paperback, Mass Market, 2022

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Seveneves, Neal Stephenson

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson
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In Neal Stephenson's novel SEVENEVES, instant mass communication on social media type apps almost causes the extinction of humanity due to misinformation and political manipulation, and the resulting society reverts to receiving information on a more delayed basis.

Paperback, 2016

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Book Cover for: Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson
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@nscalzo81 The Mistborn trilogy and/or the Stormlight Archive books, both by Brandon Sanderson. Can't recommend both enough. Mistborn is a complete story. Stormlight is ongoing.

Paperback, Mass Market, 2019

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Social Justice: Freedom + Equality + Fraternity, Overton Window

Social Justice: Freedom + Equality + Fraternity

Overton Window
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This same attempt at sematic deflection happened with CRT. This isn't complicated. Someone woke views everything through a prism of social justice and has a progressive stack mindset with regards to policy, media, academia, and the Overton Window. To quote Anita Sarkeesian: https://t.co/cd1RvSiGkP https://t.co/OuHyFcCXDf

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Book Cover for: Eversion, Alastair Reynolds

Eversion

Alastair Reynolds
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Started Eversion by Alastair Reynolds, and like many of his books, the initial experience going in blind is "uh, what is this even about? Seems pretty munda... Oh. I see."

Paperback, 2022

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