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Emmett Shear @eshear

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Jason Yuan @jasonyuan · Jul 8, 2025

dear god we desperately need New Speculative Fiction to inspire Silicon Valley out of whatever local minimum we are in rn. surely! the future will be more than just JARVIS and HER!!

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Misha reposted

Emmett Shear @eshear

Try:
The Quantum Thief
Diaspora, Axiomatic, Instantiation
Exhalation
The Nanotech Succession
Alien Clay
Anathem, Termination Shock
Children of Time
Daemon
Hail Mary
Echopraxia
Down And Out In The Magical Kingdom
Halting State
Manna
Too Like The Lightning
Crystal Society

9:55 PM · Jul 8, 2025 · 5,258 Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A thread capture: Jason Yuan (Jul 8, 2025) calls for new speculative fiction beyond JARVIS and HER, and Emmett Shear replies with a list of science fiction recommendations. Reposted by Misha. The post is from 2025 but was captured on 2026-09-21.

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``` eigen moom... @eigen_moom... · Mar 14 2 amazing novels by humanities professors which masquerade as SF books but are actually extremely elaborate attempts to smuggle their personal research interest (enlightenment era writers/the byzantines) into wonderfully rich worlds [Image: book covers for "Too Like the Lightning" and "A Memory Called Empire"] 8:19 PM · Mar 14, 2025 · 4,967 Views 10 replies, 7 reposts, 191 likes, 114 bookmarks eigen moom... @eigen_moom... · Mar 14 terra ignota (the first) is basically: what if my main character was a /lit/ shitposter that was obsessed with voltaire but also extremely schizophrenic and the latter is "what if byzantines but in space, and also constantinople is an entire planet" [cut off] ```
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A book recommendation tweet for two science fiction novels (Ada Palmer's "Too Like the Lightning" and Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire"), noting both authors are humanities academics who embedded their scholarly specialties (Enlightenment writers, Byzantine history) into their world-building. General reading recommendation, no direct AI safety content but relevant to sci-fi literary interests. Same tweet as Screenshot_20250316-102920.png (expanded/scrolled view) recommending "Too Like the Lightning" (Ada Palmer) and "A Memory Called Empire" (Arkady Martine), with a follow-up reply describing each book's premise irreverently. Duplicate content of the prior screenshot with added replies.

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