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Reading Dune last year warmed my heart and made me want to read more (broadly-defined) rationalist fiction, but any type will count. I tried Mad Investor Chaos but found it a bit off-putting. Will answer questions asked here as I see them. Feb 14, 10:08am: any genre counts, but has to be a long text form (no movies, no cute fictional sentences). I at least used to like EY's writing, but found his Mad Investor Chaos character annoying. I didn't mind the glowfic format. Feb 14, 10:36am: Graphic novels count. Have never read A Song For Two Voices. I find it hard to explicitly describe my aesthetic preferences, but here's a list of works of fiction I've enjoyed in the past few years: Y the Last Man, Heaven's Design Team, Too Like the Lightning (but not Seven Surrenders), Killing Commendatore. Things I didn't like: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Feb 14, 11:17am: I also liked Labyrinths by Borges. Feb 14, 11:45am: lintamande's parts of MIC were fine, but up to where I gave up, mostly responding to Eliezer's character, which makes it hard for me to guess how much I'd like something more driven by lintamande. Feb 15, 9:17am: Have read and enjoyed unsong. Feb 15, 1:47pm: I am unlikely to read a book that doesn't sound interesting to me based on a M$1 yes bet, and even less likely to read books that don't sound interesting to me recommended by people who are betting no. Feb 22, 5:29pm: Started Star Maker, would describe it as OK so far. Have "Star Wink" open in a tab, will presumably get around to it at some point.
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Never actually got around to reading much of any of these, I'm afraid. I did start reading Ted Chiang short stories, which were pretty good.
Dresden Files is a simply delightful neo-noir urban fantasy series. Girl With All the Gifts is a novel with a really unique take on the "zombie apocalypse" genre, very worth a read.
Note: I never got into star maker, the pragraph or two of star wink I read didn't grip me and I haven't read more (but it's still open in a tab)
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Lately I've been recommending Worth the Candle to everyone. In the beginning it might pattern-match to LitRPG or Isekai -- overlook that and keep at it! WtC explores so many different interesting concepts. It's rather long at 1.5m words, but the entire thing had me spellbound for a good week and a half.
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I also have Star Wink open in a tab, and intend to get to it at some point. (Buying and selling to bump this, to bring the relevant info to ppl's attention)
bought Ṁ1 of YES
Have started Star Maker on Kindle. It's OK, altho the kindle-ization seems to have broke a bit (I think some apostrophes have turned into the letter f?). Hopefully this shouldn't reduce my enjoyment too much.
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Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising. It's a hypothetical cold war gone hot, using the best openly available information at the time to wargame scenarios, set with Clancy's usual good technical prose. Combat in the missile age is much different than most people think, so it'll be a learning experience.
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Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series is very good, and could broadly be defined as rationalist fiction.
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Here are Dune-related recommendations: Under Pressure (https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1054076791202242560; didn't read it) and Dune Messiah (https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1054020100444094464; read and liked it after Dune). In the broadly defined rationalist fiction space, I liked https://unsongbook.com/ and https://qntm.org/ra
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Since you like Borges: Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. Very old scifi from the 1930s, known as possibly one of the first transhumanist books out there.
bought Ṁ25 of YES
Recs: http://alicorn.elcenia.com/stories/starwink.shtml is shortish (10k words), commissioned by EY from Alicorn -- so if you like EY's ideas but want a somewhat different writing style, it might appeal. AI and futurism themes. https://glowfic.com/boards/18#section-20 (start at https://glowfic.com/posts/212 ) is more glowfic, super long but contains lots of reasonable waypoints (think "in-progress novel series" not "unfinished story"), glowfic collaboration between Alicorn and Lintamande. No prior familiarity with characters or setting required. Lots of explorations of the politics of Middle-Earth and exploitation of magic systems.
bought Ṁ1 of YES
How did you feel about lintamande's parts of MIC?
bought Ṁ2 of YES
have you read A Song For Two Voices? (I expect largeish chance you have but if not I can say more about it)
bought Ṁ1 of YES
Do you have any particular preferences or something you've enjoyed enough to want more? I've got rather a large library of enthusiastic recommendations but it'd probably best if I could filter it down a bit.
bought Ṁ25 of YES
Was it the glowfic format you found offputting, or something else? Do you particularly like EY's writing?

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