Seeds of Consciousness is the science fiction book of its kind. The first sequel, about a character named Rudy, who in his quest to save his daughter, he discovered that he was living in a simulation world, which was highly controlled by the government. without them knowing it.
There is the system called Allegorhythm, the system was created by an ancient but very intelligent and powerful race that because of war, they decided to create venomous dust, that once a victim Is exposed to it, they fall into a coma-like state, where their consciousness is extracted and inserted into avatars which are easy to manipulate and control. These victims live in an undisclosed Underground dome where they live without having a clue they are in a simulated world.
This book takes on the living in a simulated world hypothesis because the mind can be tricked and manipulated in ways we never imagined.
As he continued his journey he discovered that his actual society is an underground society known as Khabaliz.
This is a fictional story, a science fiction, but most of the content will make you double guess about your reality, are we living in a matrix? are we living on a prison planet? That I let you decide.
To learn more about the book you can find it on Amazon on kindle.
I’m looking for a word that is better than “Become a member” that could be used in a science fiction or dystopian future novel.
It’s not “become a citizen” Or “admission only through ____” Or “access granted”
Driving me crazy that I can't think of this one!
Opening scene is a young woman looking out her window at night, and seeing a person hit and killed by a car. The person is a fake human, with green goo inside (chlorophyll is part of their workings), an alien-derived hitman sent to kill her before it's killed by the car accident.
She and her brother flee. Find their father, I think.
Setting is a world where around WW1 alien life forms in the upper atmosphere have altered human society by tweaking radio broadcasts (altering political speeches and such).
Final scene is in the Atacama desert where the alien life is constructing some device to propagate their lifeform to another planet. They destroy the machine. She finds out her brother was another green goo inside ersatz human.
Probably published relatively recently, maybe 2010 or later. I read it in a newish hardcover within the last four years.
I remember this book pretty vividly but can't remember the title and the internet isn't helping. The protagonist of the book was a young man living in a low-tech society. The society was governed by some kind of priestly caste that enforced a bunch of crazy religious rules. For example, no one was allowed to drink from a river, maybe only certain people were allowed to marry, and there were a bunch of other rules. In addition, no one was allowed to question the rules. If you did, the priests would whisk you away and eventually you would reappear and publicly recant your doubt and endorse all the crazy rules. The protagonist denounces all the rules and gets whisked away, where the priests explain to him that actually the whole society is descended from a space colony (or something), but the planet they live on is contaminated with heavy metals, and they no longer have the technology to fix the problem or get away from the planet, so they've created all these mystical rules to help people survive (e.g., drinking from the river is bad because it's got heavy metals in it, etc.). Then the protagonist becomes one of the priests, recants his prior doubts and then some more stuff happens.
I read this book from my middle school library in ~1995, and I thought it was pretty old at that time. IIRC this was the first book in a two-book series.
Does anyone know about this? I moved back to the city right before COVID and have been very curious. They have a pretty comprehensive website but I wanted to see if there were any first hand accounts/reviews of them.
Back again looking for more fics to read during times of cancer treatments.
This time I am looking for fics where Harry Potter shapes, molds, guides, bends, destroys, or builds the Wizarding world to his liking, either through political moves, or influencing society itself in whatever methods. To clarify, politics are not required. Just influencing Wizarding society in some way.
He could do it by building wizingamot power blocks. He could do it by becoming a light/dark/grey lord and simply seizing power. He could do it via multiple marriage contracts at gringotts giving him sway over families/witches. He could do it by working behind the scenes to play chess with peoples lives. He could do it by simply outsmarting and tricking people to see his way. He could do it through gold or simple name power (albeit this is the easy way out).
You get the picture. I dont care HOW he goes about changing the world, I just want to see fics where he asserts power in some way (even if quietly under the radar) and changes the world as it pertains to Wizarding society and politics. The more world building around the idea the better. The more grand and intriguing the better.
Any rating is fine but I prefer more mature fics (feels more realistic). Romance being included is always welcome. Don't mind crossovers as long as anyone could enjoy it without needing other knowledge.
Thanks everyone!
Large chunks of this story popped into my head while reading another post. I believe I read in the late 80's or very early 90's, but I'm not certain.
Plot: An incredibly smart kid grows up in a normal family. I remember he "played doctor" with a neighborhood girl, but described it as a scientific experience because he wanted to know the differences. A man (I think) shows up at some point and offers money to the family to gain their permission to take him away. It was a non-round number - something like $53,217.88 - because people "have no context for a round number", and an oddball number would be more tangible. In the end, the family sells off the kid and he learns that he's going to a "creche" for genius kids. He has a choice between fighting it and possibly gaining his freedom through incompatibility or embracing it and making a potentially huge difference in his world. He chooses to embrace it.
Note: I think this might have been part of a book of short stories, but only because it reminded me of some other stories I haven't thought of in a while. It might have been an anthology of "bests" of a year or decade.
By science fiction I mean, technologic development, extreme laws, population, education, way of living, what country/region/city would be closer to the "cyberpunk style" or any other futuristic way? I guess you guys could mention tokyo, or singapore, yes, but what else, and if those were your first thoughts, could you explain with more detail?
Science-Fiction movie about a guy living in a digital world, collecting points on a bycicle everyday.
it's possible for him to spend the points on short term buys (food, p*rn) but he can save them up to enter some kind of game show, thats getting shown on tv in this digital world (every other "player" can see the show).
i think the main character wants to help someone and spends most of his points on them, even though he worked long for them.
there is a side character that goes for all the short term buys.
it was a rather new movie (2015-2020?) and language was english i think.
I haven't posted here before so forgive me if I mess up somewhere.
I live in the US and we have something called Scholastic Book Fairs that happen once in awhile during elementary & middle school where you can go to the school library and buy a book that was either newly released or most popular.
I was in 6th grade/middle school when I bought this book (2015/16), I believe it was a new release and I got it for 8 bucks.
It was a paperback middle grade book, the cover art was a sheet metal background with an orange light emitting from the top and a green and blue flower in the center.
From what I can remember, the book was about a disease/war destroyed world with one facility run by AI that grow humans from test tubes and raise them. I think they also do training based on their skills or special abilities but that might've been just the main 3 characters.
The main character is raised and watched by one of the AI's, the character knows exactly what time it is in their head and I believe have fast reflexes.
They meet a rebel girl who is the 2nd character and every night they navigate through secret tunnels in the facility and also meet the 3rd character who happens to be a failed human-clone-thing.
There's a gap in my memory of the progression in the story but I remember it all leads to this large ceremony and the three of them are allowed to leave the facility and go to this island next to the facility where plant and animal life is still thriving.
I've tried describing it in my google searches but nothing has come up, its not a super popular nor great book but I'd still like to know the name of it at least.
