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Vernor Vinge. His 1991 novel Across Realtime joins three stories he wrote in the mid 1980s around a central mystery: What happened to everybody?
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
He still owned the family farm in northwestern Iowa, along with a few hundred thousand acres of adjoining land, which he was turning back into a tall-grass prairie, complete with herds of bison and real Indians who had discovered that riding around on horses hunting wild game was a better deal than pissing yourself in gutters in Minneapolis or Seat
... See moreNeal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
He loved reading stories in the American magazines that asked “What if?” and subtly questioned conventionally accepted assumptions and rules—both scientific and cultural.
Robert Stone • Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
There was way less time passing in the office than there seemed to be.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
In the long meantime Mr. Shepherd was willing to shoulder the burden of being misunderstood.
Neal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
It took him gallons of viscous time