Psychohistorical Crisis
Eron Osa a subi le châtiment suprême: on lui a retiré son fam, une sonde psychique qui décuple les capacités du cerveau. En cette année 14810 de l'Ere galactique, dans Sublime Sagesse, la planète capitale de la Voie lactée, chaque citoyen dépend uniquement de son fam pour évoluer dans un univers hautement technologique. Eron, privé de la plupart de ses souvenirs, va découvrir l'enfer de sa nouvelle condition. Est-il au coeur d'un complot à l'échelle de la Galaxie? Pourtant, perdue au fond de sa mémoire, se trouve la clé qui pourrait changer le destin galactique de l'humanité.
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- I'd have to spend a lot more time for a comprehensive list, but I can easily throw out a couple:
"Computer Lib/Dream Machines" Theodor Nelson - a vision of a better computing future that sticks with me.
"Courtship Rite", "The Moon Goddess and the Son", "Psychohistorical Crisis" Donald Kingsbury - sociologicaly based SF that forced me to think way outside of my cultural assumptions. TMGATS is particularly relevant given the events in Ukraine.
- OTOH, Asimov definitely got the importance of miniaturization right in that series, though he mostly applies it to things like force fields and the like, rather than computing devices (other than the tools psychohistorians use).
BTW, you may enjoy Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis. Well worth reading, it adds quite a few interesting and plausible embellishments to Asimov's conceptual framework.
- I'd choose one of these two, since they both completely qualify as underrated:
A) "Psychohistorical Crisis" by Donald Kingsbury, which is an unauthorized sequel set in the world of Asimov's Foundation Series.
B) "Venus Equilateral" by George O. Smith, which is an old, rather cheesy sci-fi novel from the 1940s, which is basically a bunch of engineers on a communications space station fighting lawyers, bureaucracy, and space pirates through inventing stuff.
- For an interesting science-fictional take on some consequences and issues with providing people with attached outboard brains (in the context of Asimov's Foundation universe), read Donald Kingsbury's novel Psychohistorical Crisis.
- A few other SF books with the idea of an external co-brain:
- Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury (plays a major role)
- Accelerando by Charlie Stross (minor role)
- The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge (relatively major roles)
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- Blood Music - Greg Bear
Accelerando - Charlie Stross
Psychohistorical Crisis - Donald Kingsbury (assuming you have already read Asimov's Foundation series)
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Chung Kuo, the Middle Kingdom - David Wingrove
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
Neutron Star - Larry Niven
Existence - David Brin
The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert
The Space Merchants - Pohl and Kornbluth
Sun of Suns - Karl Schroeder
All the Traps of Earth - Clifford Simak
Test of Fire - Ben Bova
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
