Eunice is almost here(armincat.com)
69 points by armcat | 74 comments
A short blog post comparing the AI assistant Eunice from William Gibson's novel Agency to today's emerging autonomous, full-duplex conversational AI agents.
#science-fiction on Hacker News
28 stories tagged science-fiction, newest first.
![Screenshot of gwern.net: Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/26/da9e3ff8-b2c8-4b38-950d-10c90f51f607.jpg)
Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf](gwern.net)
18 points by zahrevsky | 3 comments
PDF of Greg Egan's science fiction short story "Learning to Be Me," about a brain-implanted jewel that learns to imitate its host's mind.
Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it(buford.bg)
63 points by buf | 52 comments
Personal website of Buford, a pardoned ex-felon turned startup engineer and founder, listing his companies, novels, essays, and an in-progress autobiography.
Butlerian Jihad(dune.fandom.com)
317 points by wetwater | 186 comments
Dune fandom wiki article on the Butlerian Jihad, the fictional crusade against thinking machines in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.
AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic(metedata.substack.com)
37 points by young_mete | 39 comments
Substack essay using the Strugatsky brothers' novel Roadside Picnic as an analogy for AI-generated scientific results that humans can use but not understand.
Blindsight (Watts Novel)(en.wikipedia.org)
90 points by mooreds | 100 comments
Wikipedia article on Blindsight, Peter Watts's 2006 hard science fiction novel about astronauts investigating an alien signal and themes of consciousness.
Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)(slashdot.org)
60 points by jdkee | 25 comments
A 2004 Slashdot interview in which author Neal Stephenson answers reader-submitted questions, starting with one on hacking tools and the Second Amendment.
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station(lightspeedmagazine.com)
69 points by bucket2015 | 14 comments
A science fiction short story by Caroline M. Yoachim published in Lightspeed Magazine's March 2016 issue, set at a medical clinic on an interplanetary relay station.
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)(short-stories.co)
476 points by askvictor | 213 comments
Full text of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," about an automated house running on after nuclear war, set on August 4, 2026.
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf](users.wpi.edu)
407 points by pmg101 | 414 comments
PDF of Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains," about an automated house running on after nuclear war.
The End of an Era(hughhowey.com)
366 points by harscoat | 399 comments
A blog post by author Hugh Howey titled "The End of an Era," featuring a banner for the Silo TV series adaptation of his books.
Accelerando (2005)(antipope.org)
319 points by eamag | 177 comments
The full text of Charles Stross's 2005 science fiction novel Accelerando, published online under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)(hex.ooo)
706 points by ColinWright | 281 comments
Full text of Isaac Asimov's 1956 science fiction short story "The Last Question" about the computer Multivac and reversing entropy.
They're made out of meat (1991)(terrybisson.com)
601 points by surprisetalk | 161 comments
Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story "They're Made Out of Meat," hosted on the author's website.
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died(dignitymemorial.com)
401 points by throw0101a | 169 comments
Obituary for Dan Simmons, American science fiction and horror author of the Hyperion Cantos, who died February 21, 2026; screenshot shows his Wikipedia page.
Lena by qntm (2021)(qntm.org)
319 points by stickynotememo | 171 comments
"Lena", a 2021 short story by qntm written as a wiki article about MMAcevedo, the first executable image of a human brain.
The pivot(antipope.org)
468 points by AndrewDucker | 235 comments
Blog post by author Charles Stross on his 61st birthday reflecting on a world resembling a dystopian 1970s SF novel, with billionaires colonizing space.
Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025(mbh4h.substack.com)
376 points by keiferski | 327 comments
A Substack post by James Bareham reflecting on reading William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer for the first time in 2025.
Solarpunk(en.wikipedia.org)
389 points by nis0s | 202 comments
Wikipedia article on solarpunk, a literary and artistic movement envisioning an optimistic, sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.
Life is more than an engineering problem(lareviewofbooks.org)
369 points by biomene | 225 comments
Los Angeles Review of Books interview in which Julien Crockett talks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and technology's future.
There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)(qntm.org)
683 points by squircle | 261 comments
Landing page for qntm's science fiction novel "There Is No Antimemetics Division," set in the SCP Foundation universe and about ideas that resist being remembered.
Vernor Vinge has died(file770.com)
1098 points by sohkamyung | 294 comments
File 770 obituary post reporting the death of science fiction author Vernor Vinge (1944–2024).
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Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf](sdfo.org)
347 points by xNeil | 241 comments
A PDF copy of Daniel Keyes's science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon," about a man whose intelligence is surgically enhanced.
Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China(nbcnews.com)
408 points by wyldfire | 248 comments
NBC News article reporting leaked emails showing Hugo Awards organizers vetted and excluded science fiction authors to avoid offending China, where the 2023 awards were held.
Permutation City (1994)(gregegan.net)
373 points by RafelMri | 184 comments
Greg Egan's official page for his 1994 science fiction novel Permutation City, with a synopsis and links to an excerpt and the Dust Theory FAQ.
Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
444 points by axiomdata316 | 155 comments
An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.
They're Made Out of Meat (1991)(mit.edu)
362 points by mailarchis | 122 comments
The full text of Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story in which aliens are amazed to discover that humans are sentient beings made of meat.
Commercially available chairs in Star Trek(ex-astris-scientia.org)
601 points by zichy | 177 comments
Ex Astris Scientia database page cataloging 163 off-the-shelf chairs, stools, and vehicle seats identified in Star Trek productions.