Neverness

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• ailun · Sep 1, 2021 · Recommends

  It's not new, but I just read Neverness by David Zindell. I had a similar feeling with his invented language. He actually does it so realistically that sometimes I couldn't tell when the words were invented and when they were just archaic.

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• A_D_E_P_T · May 28, 2025 · Recommends

  Thanks to this link I just bought a lot of books. I'd note: Greg Egan is pretty well (if not completely) represented, but how is Permutation City not on the list?! Also: Neverness by David Zindell is extremely good. Almost certainly the best SF work of its decade. Very underrated.

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• Yetanfou · Feb 16, 2015 · Recommends

  One of the read-worthy books which immediately came to mind is Neverness [1] by David Zindell. It is actually the 'prequel' to a series ('A requiem for Homo Sapiens' [2]) which I have yet to read, but it stands by itself as far as I'm concerned. If you like SF, mathematics…

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• dasmoth · Feb 16, 2015 · Recommends

  That's definitely retroactive, my old copy says no such thing. Neverness is a fabulous book though. RfHS also worthwhile, but does sprawl a bit for my taste.

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• lioeters · Dec 31, 2022 · Recommends

  Happy to see you mention the latter. I read Neverness as a teenager, and have re-read the book several times over the years. It influenced the way I see the world, and many of the ideas and phrases have become part of my own life narrative. I definitely…

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• A_D_E_P_T · Mar 4, 2024 · Recommends

  More recently, Permutation City by Greg Egan and Neverness by David Zindell are all about mathematical journeys in fictional worlds. It's hard to discuss what they mean without getting pretty deep into the philosophical implications of simulated worlds, though,…

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• lioeters · Nov 1, 2025 · Recommends

  Yes, I believe it's possible to train our brains and learn to perceive better in higher dimensions. There's a great description in the science-fiction book Neverness, where pilots meld their minds with the spaceship computer to visualize and navigate hyperspace.

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• Adlai · Jul 4, 2015 · Mentions

  …either. "Do you want to know the secret of life? [I'll] tell you the secret of life: it's not the amount of time we have... it's not quantity and it's not even quality. It's variety." - Bardo the Just, Neverness (by David Zindell)

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• webmaven · Dec 2, 2016 · Mentions

  Looks like they are missing gloze and flush, infrared colors from David Zindell's book Neverness. Adding them to the page now.

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• B1FF_PSUVM · Jun 7, 2019 · Mentions

  For what it's worth, by 1988 the term was in SF novels such as David Zindell's Neverness

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• the_third_wave · Jul 3, 2022 · Mentions

  …my life I'd settle for access to the raw materials to make these. I'd write the book myself, it'd probably end up like a cross between Robinson Crusoë, Baden Powell's "Scouting for Boys", Zindell's "Neverness", Tolkien's "Silmarillion", The Gulag Archipelago - for what twisted mind would keep people from reading new (to them) books other than the same mind which created the GULAG system - and more of such.…

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• Probablism · May 28, 2025 · Mentions

  Neverness by David Zindell? Not quite 50 years though.

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