| ▲ | mock-possum 3 months ago |
| There is a sci-fi series that I am absolutely blanking on that features that concept - I remember a few characters each having access to a somewhat godlike ability to manipulate physics, and using it to restructure the universe to create computers to augment their own capabilities - definitely some planetary stuff and some quantum / atomic level stuff.. hmmmm maybe gpt can help |
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| ▲ | aspenmayer 3 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| This sounds vaguely like the series that Peter F. Hamilton has written, possibly the Commonwealth Saga? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga |
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| ▲ | mock-possum 3 months ago | parent [-] | | Man ‘Judas Unchained’ sounds like a real familiar title but the synopsis does not right any bells. I think the artifact that could be tuned to pull power from celestial bodies was sold to the human / or traded or gambled or something - by an alien entity named ‘wheeler’ maybe? The protagonist had a friend named Zero or Zeno that was kind of a techno mystic? Idk my memories are pretty spotty | | |
| ▲ | aspenmayer 3 months ago | parent [-] | | The book is Signal to Noise and its sequel A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund. A personal favorite of mine! Wheeler is such a convincing villain, and the existence of such a character as an explanation of the Fermi paradox is eminently believable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Nylund |
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| ▲ | heatmiser 3 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| would it happen to be "Zones of Thought" by Vernor Vinge? |
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| ▲ | mock-possum 3 months ago | parent [-] | | Ooh no it is not, but I am coincidentally working my way through the third book in that series! |
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