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Let me share several books that brought me a similar level of awe, due to the scope and creativity of the world-building:

1. Accelerando by Charles Stross - for THE Scope.

2. Quantum Thief by Hanny Rajaniemi - for the similarly high entry threshold and rewarding experience when you cross it.

3. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds - for a fascinating vision of future human societies.

I'd be happy to find more books like these.



I read and enjoyed these quite a bit, so let me add a few more to the list.

- “The Fall Revolution” tetralogy by Ken MacLeod: “The Star Fraction”, “The Stone Canal”, “The Cassini Division”, and “The Sky Road”

- “Void Star” by Zachary Mason

- “Singularity Sky” by Charles Stross

- “The Freeze-Frame Revolution” by Peter Watts

- “Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość” by Jacek Dukaj

- “A Fire Upon the Deep” and “A Deepness in the Sky” by Vernor Vinge

- “The Golden Oecumene” trilogy by John C. Wright: “The Golden Age”, “The Phoenix Exultant”, and “The Golden Transcendence”

- “Gnomon” by Nick Harkaway

- the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks


Accelerando is amazing; see it being recommended several times in this post!


I enjoyed pretty much everything from cstross and Reynolds (pushing ice and especially house of suns are great stand alone).

I enjoyed quantum thief but somehow I have yet to go beyond the first book.




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