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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] ```
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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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