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Neal Stephenson • Fall or, Dodge in Hell: The Sci-Fi Sensation
Dreams were fragile things to build with. Titanium and ceramic lasted longer.
James S. A. Corey • Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse Book 8)
to access networks with response times
Alastair Reynolds • Chasm City
Sufficiently advanced tech actively trying to look like magic.
Adrian Tchaikovsky • Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture Book 3)
He worked very carefully, trying to minimize waste as much as possible, and ended up with thirty-six small meteorite rods.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
sine qua non
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
Tyrena Wingreen-Feif was my first editor at Transline. It was her idea to title the book The Dying Earth (a records search showed a novel by that name five hundred years earlier, but the copyright had lapsed and the book was out of print).