2026-09-27 13:20 UTC
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@rdm@aus.social 2026-09-27 14:42
@adapalmer@wandering.shop I vaguely remember that one, it must be over 40 years since I last read it.
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@CliftonR@wandering.shop 2026-09-27 19:44
@adapalmer@wandering.shop @rdm@aus.social I love that story! The little bits of the math and physics folklore about the absent-mindedness of the great mathematicians and physicists really tie the whole thing together. I was trying to find it to pass to one of my kids, only to find I no longer had the Bester collection which it appears in. Books just seem to evaporate sometimes.
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@12thRITS@mstdn.social 2026-09-27 20:53
@adapalmer@wandering.shop @rdm@aus.social Nobody was better than Bester at his best. "The Demolished Man," "The Stars My Destination," "The Pi Man," and one whose title I can't remember wherein the protagonist gets his consciousness mixed up with that of a murderous robot he owns. Just wonderful stuff.