Year ZeroRob Reid
Year Zero
by Rob Reid · first published 2013
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If you like Hitchhiker's, try "Year Zero" by Rob Reid. Very similar style IMO. Also "After On" by the same author is also fantastic.
on “Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)” ↗There's a book called Year Zero, by Rob Reid about our first contact with aliens. It turns out that humans are the only species in the universe capable of creating good music and as soon as other races detected our radio waves, they…
on “Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor” ↗Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid is one where the entire galaxy got hooked on listening to our pop music that's been transmitting this whole time and how Earth is now owed insane amounts of money due to copyright.
on “Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows” ↗…Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program by Croft Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies by Ledwidge De Gaulle by Jackson 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Illies Vichy France by Paxton Year Zero by Reid And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris by Riding The Kinsman Saga by Bova The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Rove La Place De La…
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when?” ↗Reading: Cadilllac Desert: The American West and it's Disappearing Water - Mark Reisner Year Zero: A Novel - Rob Reid
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗