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Originally Posted by GM Joe
I missed out on the transhumanism trend in sci-fi, but the GURPS setting interests me so I bought it. I'd like to understand the genre better, though. Which are the best transhumanist sci-fi novels?
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A lot of the best work is done in the short story form (e.g., works by Greg Egan) but novels that especially inspired me with regard to
Transhuman Space were:
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The Stone Canal by Ken Macleod (also
Cassini Division)
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Queen of Angels by Greg Bear (also
Moving Mars and
Slant)
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Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling (also
Holy Fire).
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Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick.
Accellerando by Charles Stross is a dense, difficult read (partly due to its status as a fixup of several short stories) but is filled with neat ideas.
Currently also reading Ramez Naam's
Nexus and finding it good, and just finished Egan's
Zendegi, which is interesting: first half is about a hypothetical secular revolution in Iran, but the second half is mostly a critical look at why uploading will be both hard to do and possibly a bad thing (from the author most associated with early novels popularizing the concept).