The Culture

Iain M. Banks's series of novels set in a post-scarcity interstellar civilisation.

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Patrick Stewart has died
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Called a more mature and nuanced sci-fi utopia than Star Trek.

When We Cease to Understand the World Learning & books
Benjamín Labatut's fictionalized stories about scientists and mathematicians.
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Mars trilogy ↗Learning & books
Kim Stanley Robinson's novel series about the colonisation and terraforming of Mars.
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Parable of the Sower Learning & books
A science fiction novel by Octavia Butler.
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Speaker for the Dead ↗Learning & books
An Orson Scott Card novel featuring the AI character Jane.
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Mere Christianity ↗Learning & books
A book by C. S. Lewis setting out core Christian beliefs.
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Caste Learning & books
Isabel Wilkerson's book framing American racism as a caste system.
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Dune Learning & books
Frank Herbert's science fiction novel whose backstory includes the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines.
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A Perfect Vacuum Learning & books
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
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Careless People
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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Wikipedia
A free collaborative online encyclopedia.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗
A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.
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A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept ↗
A lecture by John Ousterhout on how rate of learning outweighs starting ability.
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn's history of the US told from the perspective of ordinary and marginalised people.
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A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
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ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗
A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.
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Accelerando
A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.
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Ashton Manual
A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.
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Atomic Physics for Everyone
An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.
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Axiomatic ↗
A short story collection by Greg Egan.
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