Holy Fire
by Lynn, David
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…a couple of books I'm glad I read: "Dahlgren" by Samuel Delaney (and most everything else I've read by him as well). "Earthsea" by Ursula LeGuin - and "Powers". "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. "Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling (I also enjoyed Islands in the Net, Zenith Angle and Schismatrix). "Foundation" trilogy + prequel by Isaac Asimov. "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley. "Deepness in the Sky" / "Fire…
on “Ask HN: What are some must read books?” ↗…die screaming than live forever." There are downsides to the kind of extreme prudence that planning to be around for centuries would imply. Also, there's a fantastic novel from Bruce Sterling called Holy Fire that is devoted to exploring the tension between living to continue living and living in the moment.
on “Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice” ↗…might not be the best guide... I recommend looking into Bruce Sterling, if you enjoy Gibson - particularly Islands in the Net (if you can find it! I ended up buying an expensive used copy online) and Holy Fire.
on “William Gibson is a literary genius” ↗If you enjoyed "Snow Crash" and "Diamond Age", I'd recommend "Islands in the Net" (if you can get hold of a copy) and "Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling. Or for something newer, "the Zenith Angle" by same. I've also enjoyed all of Willam Gibsons books, including the latest trilogy "Pattern Recognition", "Spook Country" and "Zero History".…
on “Ask HN: I loved Snow Crash and Daemon. What should I read next?” ↗…Stanislaw Lem I'd recommend (for some classic sci-fi), also Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky brothers) is very good. Keeping with the theme of the other books listed above, I'd recommend Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire", or maybe "Babel-17" by Samuel R. Delany (although I prefer his youth fantasy novel "Neveyona" which deals with some of the same themes). Also, you can't go wrong with his "The Einstein Intersection".…
on “My Summer Reading List” ↗Mr. Bruce Sterling authored "Holy Fire" in 1996, a novel which deals with the topic of radical life extension through a protagonist who is an elderly woman. Contemplative, and a fun read. Were he alive, Jules Verne would have been an excellent…
on “Ask HN: Which scifi authors to interview about immortality?” ↗I'll second Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon (but not the sequels) and Vinge's Rainbows End. You might also consider some of Bruce Sterling's stuff, Distraction, Holy Fire, and The Caryatids. Sterling has a more instrumental view of AI but I think he does a better job of addressing the social issues of technology than most of the other recommendations here. Halting State,…
on “Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology” ↗…crab. “Very interesting isotopic properties.” “Did you ever drink water from the moon, my dear?” Novak asked her. Maya shook her head. “We’ll have the lunar water,” Novak ordered. --Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire. (I should really reread that. Thanks for reminding me!)
on “Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles” ↗This reminds me a bit of the Bruce Sterling novel Holy Fire, in which soaring life expectancies and prolonged professional careers create a new, more severe generation gap between the "gerontocracy" and the younger generations. Sterling's speculative future didn't…
on “Half the people in human history who reached the age of 65 are alive now.” ↗…We have a loooong way to go before we run out of people to run an advanced economy. As for the grey-aristocracy: it's already here, just unevenly distributed. Bruce Sterling described it vividly in Holy Fire (1996). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359390.Holy_Fire
on “India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman” ↗Related: Bruce Sterling's novel 'Holy Fire'. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4803
on “Who wants to live for ever? Ageing can be cured–and, in part, it soon will be” ↗You just summarized Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk book “Holy Fire”
on “Scientist David Sinclair on why we age and why he thinks we don’t have to (2019)” ↗