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Karl Schroeder
Personal blog · kschroeder.com/weblogwritingculture
Karl Schroeder writes UNAPOCALYPTIC, a personal blog at kschroeder.com about writing and culture. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Karl Schroeder's site for his hard science fiction novels, including the Virga series and Ventus, which is available as a free ebook. Some posts describe engineering Virga.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-28
What Hacker News says?
I also recommend 'Ventus' by Karl Schroeder. It's a fun scifi read, covers some of these concepts and can be downloaded for free: http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/my-books/ventus/fr...
Comment linking /my-books/ventus/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version
on “Microsoft Concept Graph”Submitted This site has been designed to be completely accessible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you want to read a concrete example rather than the generic relevant novels mentioned in the article the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts, National Defence Canada, commissioned Karl Schroeder [1] in 2005 to write an SF novel to help explore them future doctrine and concepts. PDF is available at [2]. He wrote a second (post 2010) but I don't have the reference now (a 'friend' never returned it). I recall tha…
Comment linking /foresight-consulting/crisis-in-zefra/Crisis-in-Zefra-e.pdf
on “Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them”Submitted The Deepening Paradox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOne sci-fi author that I really found refreshing was Karl Schroeder. His first book has been made available for anyone to read, and if you like nano bots, micro payments, discussions on what it means to be human, I'd highly recommend checking his works out. http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version
Comment linking /my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version
on “Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read”Karl Schroeder's Virga series features a vast zero-G fullerene sphere filled with artificial stars and floating nation states. Great hard sci world building and fun swashbuckling adventures, with a deep offstage story which only gradually comes into focus. Karl writes about engineering Virga on his blog: http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/sun-of-suns/engineering-v...
Comment linking /my-books/sun-of-suns/engineering-virga
on “Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?”I don't know about that. More[1] and more[2] authors[3] these days are giving[4] away their books for free online as a form of advertising. 1: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm 2: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... 3: http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version 4. http://craphound.com/rotn/download/
Comment linking /my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version
on “Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent”"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature" Karl Shroeder http://www.kschroeder.com/weblog/archive/2011/11/30/the-deep...
Comment linking /weblog/archive/2011/11/30/the-deepening-paradox
on “Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation?”