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"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." - which books do you think best manage to do this? (self.sciencefiction)

submitted 1 year ago by FantasticFox to c/sciencefiction

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I posted this on Reddit a while ago and it sparked some really good discussion and recommendations.

I really like The Expanse - as it doesn't just discuss the attempted terraforming of Mars and the colonisation of the Main Asteroid Belt but also

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the way that these communities decline when abundant habitable planets are discovered, where life is much easier.

So yeah, what are your best examples?

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[–] FantasticFox 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, the Merchant Princes sounds really interesting. I saw Charles Stross once in Edinburgh when I used to live there. I still haven't read any of his books though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's my favorite series of his. I read the first couple of Laundryverse books, and while they're fun, I'm not a fan of the lovecraftian horror thing. But Merchant Princes hooked me right from the start. Tons of politicking, and by the end it gets messy, like really messy. It's basically The Godfather meets Game of Thrones meets Sliders. And then the followup series (Empire Games) is a Cold War spy thriller with portals. You can just start with Empire games, it's written to be a separate series, but it does have massive spoilers for the original series.

[–] FantasticFox 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!