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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-05 20:52:53)
Finished reading A Fire Upon the Deep and now returning to finish the Sprawl trilogy with Mona Lisa Overdrive.
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kryptec@kryptec@mastodon.social (2026-10-06 06:05:35)
@dthompson I only discovered Vernor Vinge recently and really liked that novel. I thought it was an interesting conceit to have AI become less capable as you approach the centre of the galaxy. It was some really fun world building.

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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-06 21:27:56)
@kryptec yeah the "zones of thought" concept makes for a lot of interesting scenarios. the skroderiders and tines are very cool otherworldly species. I also like that due to the vast distances that information needs to travel for galactic communication that newsgroups have persisted lol