Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Joan D. Vinge wrote about a demarchist society in her enjoyable pacey novel The Outcasts of Heaven Belt.
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
of Iain M. Banks.
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
sui generis queer ancient Entity that claimed long standing or warrant Royal.
Neal Stephenson • The System of the World: Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle
antediluvian
Barry Eisler • The Killer Collective
to Samuel R. Delaney’s seminal Nova.