Sublime
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The physicist Robert Forward wrote a superb science-fiction story, Dragon’s Egg, based on the premise that information could be stored and processed – and life and intelligence could evolve – through the interactions between neutrons on the surface of a neutron star (a star that has collapsed gravitationally to a diameter of only a few kilometres,
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Dr. Maurice Rosenau, in his Pan-Galactic Humbug or. Three Billion Dupes says:
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.
Ted Chiang • Stories of Your Life and Others
He remembered the Sun of India and shuddered to contemplate the Sun of Mercury.
Arthur C. Clarke • Rendezvous with Rama
