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PECOS-9 comments on Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: PECOS-9 21 February 2016 06:25:37AM 0 points [-]

Anyone have recommendations of fiction along the lines of Worm and HPMOR that are also very long (>400k words)?

Comment author: gjm 22 February 2016 05:57:38PM 1 point [-]

You probably already know this, but the author of Worm has written another long (though not so long) serial called Pact and is in the middle of another called Twig. If you enjoyed Worm and haven't read those yet, you might give them a try.

Comment author: drethelin 21 February 2016 08:03:48PM 1 point [-]

Harry Potter and the Natural 20 has a lot of characters optimizing in interesting ways in response to the constraints of their universe, but their universe's laws are a lot less realistic than Worm or HPMOR. The Ethshar books by Lawrence Watt-Evans are not one coherent story but there are a lot of books set in the same world. Miles Vorkosigan has the whole "cunning main character thinks outside the box to beat impossible odds" dynamic and there are a bunch of books that follow him and his life, although the fact that he ages throughout them gives them a pretty different feel than the chronologically much shorter timespan of HPMOR.

Comment author: TheAltar 22 February 2016 05:36:51PM *  0 points [-]

There's a subreddit for rational/rationalist fiction that may interest you or have a longer list of suggestions than here. I think the subreddit was www.reddit.com/r/rational