Ventus

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• Qz · Mar 29, 2010 · Recommends

  Greg Egan writes fantastic stuff. Another really good book is Ventus by Karl Schroeder. It's phenomenally entertaining and has some really interesting ideas in it.

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• kybernetikos · Nov 2, 2016 · Recommends

  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...

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• elzr · Oct 11, 2014 · Recommends

  I second Karl Schroeder as a worthwhile SF author! His novels can be challenging but his ideas are unique and worth the price of admission: * Ventus, his first novel, is about a world that turns accidentally alive (think Gaia) via nanotechnology. * Lady of Mazes turns around how we could use (very advanced) technology to preserve cultures instead…

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• thrtythreeforty · Dec 24, 2019 · Recommends

  OP here. Bingo! Karl Schroeder is fairly obscure unfortunately... I love Ventus and Lady of Mazes. I picked this handle mainly because it's unique everywhere I've tried to sign up.

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• oasisaimlessly · Feb 25, 2024 · Recommends

  By Karl Schroeder, who wrote Ventus[1] and Permanence[2]. (One of my favorite sci-fi authors!) I always thought this reviewer quote on the front of Ventus was pretty funny: > “Dramatically effective and a milestone in science fiction…

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• ekidd · Mar 10, 2011 · Mentions

  …code. Not everybody is an entrepreneur, including some people as business- and PR-savvy as Scalzi. Plus, there are customers like me, who appreciate strong and talented editing. Karl Schroeder's novel Ventus had about 90,000 words cut from the second half at the recommendation of an editor, who said, roughly, The first half of the book is a lovely travelogue across a fascinating world; the second half is…

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• thrtythreeforty · Nov 28, 2024 · Mentions

  …touches on machine intelligence in lots of ways. The steampunk Virga series has AIs which act on behalf of nature, Lady of Mazes has "votes" which are physical embodiments of political movements, and Ventus has sentient terraforming robots who no longer think as humans do.

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• jodrellblank · Feb 9, 2026 · Mentions

  …unquestioned life and intelligence? Gregory Stock, Metaman Bruce Sterling, "Maneki Neko" What if: Fine-grained distributed systems are aggressively successful? Karl Schroeder, Ventus Vernor Vinge, "Fast Times at Fairmont High" What if: IA (Intelligence Amplification) occurs As the radical endpoint of Human/computer interface research? Poul Anderson,…

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