Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend? Looking to read some sci-fi. Anything that takes place in a dystopian San Francisco and involves hackers. Do you have any suggestions? |
Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend? Looking to read some sci-fi. Anything that takes place in a dystopian San Francisco and involves hackers. Do you have any suggestions? |
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson: a setting in a future San Francisco, handle topic nanotechnology
"Counting Heads" by David Marusek: futuristic vision of San Francisco, focus on technology and AI.
"Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz: not exclusively in San Francisco, handles AI, piracy, and corporate control.
Why explicit San Francisco? :) Taking the possibilities into account, there's might be no San Francisco anymore in some near distant future. Watch San Andreas for that. We'll need Dwayne Johnson in the future, as he's experienced being that one role player. Hahahaha
There’s a brief segment where one of the characters travels to Vancouver. But nothing happens in San Francisco.
Don’t let this fact dissuade you. It’s great post-scarcity sci fi.
I remember, but, may have forgotten. Time to take another approach.. thx
I think I went into reading the book with the expectation of learning much more about the background of the world, and I did, but unfortunately that left me with more plot holes that the show managed to navigate around better.
The show also converted somebody we only hear from in the form of quotes about a past rebellion to a present figure and main character which I then missed in the book.
Abram, a frustrated artist, and his girlfriend Edie, a successful artist and successful stoner, live in a nearly abandoned San Francisco along with Abram's best friend Kenner, a transient, philosophy-spouting psychonaut. Days run together in this post-work, climate-ravaged metropolis, until a stranger slips Abram a memory card loaded with cryptic government documents, flinging the trio into a bizarre world of hired assassins, aliens, bio-terrorists, and virtual reality deities. On the run, pursued by an evil they can't imagine, are they actually in danger, or are they unwitting pawns in a plot to put the dying Earth out of its misery? A psychedelic road story, it’s an intoxicating, absurd, conspiracy-laden ride into a not so distant future.”