Signal to noise
Having cheated his way into the elite Academe of Pure and Applied Sciences, Jack Porter finds his chance for tenure threatened by a rival before receiving a message from the stars that entangles him in a web of deceit and betrayal.
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58% recommend42% neutral
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What Hacker News says
- Toss "Signal to Noise" and "A Signal Shattered" both by Eric S. Nylund into the pot - interesting conceptual things around biotech/selfmodification singularities in addition to the more common computational singularities.
- In a thematically similar but very different vein, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series was an enjoyable read.
I also recommend Eric Nylund's work, specifically Signal to Noise and A Signal Shattered.
Edit: Well, there you go, Children of Time had 23 mentions now that I've read down further. Disappointed to see Eric Nylund's work fade into obscurity, I rate him up with Neal Stephenson.
- I haven't been able to find Eric Nylund's "Signal to Noise" and sequel "A Signsl Shattered" in ebook format.
But they are strange and great.
- > The sci-fi writes itself. Having averted climate catastrophe by switching to renewables 23rd century humans face the imminent catastrophe of disrupting the entire solar system dynamics after wrecking Earth-Moon orbital stability with their reckless energy extraction.
In the interest of avoiding spoilers, I will merely advise anyone interested in a story with similar themes and content to read Signal to Noise and its sequel A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund. You may know him from his work on the Halo franchise or other popular games. I don’t really know his other work, since I first discovered him via his original works.
- There was a decent science fiction serris based on this premise:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700919.Signal_to_Noise
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/737628.A_Signal_Shattere...
- The book is Signal to Noise and its sequel A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund.
A personal favorite of mine! Wheeler is such a convincing villain, and the existence of such a character as an explanation of the Fermi paradox is eminently believable.
