Gregory Benford's "Galactic Center Saga". Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio" and "The Way" series. Benford, Bear, and David Brin also extended Asimov's "Foundation" series - more stuff actually happens Larry Niven's "Ringworld" and all its spinoffs and prequels, anything with the character Louis Wu in it. Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" Bruce Sterling's "Distraction" Anything by Terry Pratchett. Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" and sequels. Lin Carter's short story "Masters of the Metropolis"
That should keep you busy for a few days. I suspect not everyone would think of these as optimistic. I would like to feed Timothy Snyder's Youtube lectures on Ukraine and Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" and Eiji Yoshikawa's "Taiko" into the AI and see what millennium long sci-fi it could turn out. How would what it writes be different if it could be taught to write using a nib pen a la Stephenson or a brush on washi paper? R.A. Lafferty wrote sometime ago "Arrive at Easterwine" about a computer writing a novel from a mashup perspective of its creators. Carl On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 11:13 AM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > I have read "Highway of Eternity" from Clifford D. Simak this weekend, one > of the books from the golden age of science fiction which is comparable to > "The city and the Stars" from Arthur C. Clarke and "The end of eternity" > from Isaac Asimov. Both belong to my favorite books. Modern authors don't > write like this anymore. Their books are often gloomy and depressive, and > do not span millions of years. What is your favorite science fiction book? > Will the AI breakthrough in large language models lead to more optimistic > science fiction books again? > > -J. > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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