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Also recommend The Egg by Andy Weir https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

I just finished the book. Can't wait to see the movie. My introduction to Andy Weir is [The Egg](https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html) which I consider to be a classic.

Plausibly some kids might still be reading entire novels worth of text online on the regular. Think of all the massive fanfic archives (Including original fics) Lots of fanfic authors have fans of their own, and those have got to be coming from somewhere. It doesn't need to be in dead tree format. It doesn't need to be famous authors. Just so long as they read! For long form original see eg: * The last angel https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-last-angel.244209/ * The wandering inn https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/03/rw1-00/ * Or eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel) which made its way off the net and into print, possibly to the detriment of both. :-P Original location (afaict) (no longer available there) : https://www.galactanet.com/writing.html

Andy Weir's The Egg is another excellent short story: [1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html If you're looking for more short stories, I highly recommend the following: • Ted Chiang's Exhalation • Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life and Others • Ken Liu's Paper Menagerie • Borges's Ficciones • Smullyan's What is the Name of This Book? • Smullyan's Lady or the Tiger? • Douglas Adams's God's Debris Remember to support local booksellers when possible :) [2] https://bookshop.org

I haven't read or thought of this in a long time. It's a really good short story. Thank you for sharing! Some of my other short story favorites: - The Egg, http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html - MMAcevedo, https://qntm.org/mmacevedo - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf - Last Contact, https://zestfullyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-contact-by-stephen-bax…

A similarly thought-provoking short story, perhaps my favorite, is The Egg[1] by Andy Weir. [1]: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story)

I never miss an opportunity to plug my favorite Andy Weir short story - The Egg. It's very short and very good. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Closely related, especially given the context of consciousness, one of my favorite stories: "The Egg" (http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html, or if you prefer read by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI).

I love to share the text: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

I second your notion. I read The Martian on the website while it was being published there. (Oh hey, the website is still alive even though the story is gone - http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html) Any recommendations?

Can't wait for the movie. BTW this short story by Andy Weir is also a great read. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Another example is Andy Weir's "The Martian", which he originally published chapter-by-chapter on his personal site http://www.galactanet.com/ .

Calling it a blog is a bit of a stretch. But because it's so simple, it's worth checking out: http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html Note to self: Think about _that_ the next time you're obsessing about how cool your author site needs to be before you publish anything :-)

The book was great, like many people I discovered it after pointing someone else to http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html I loved reading The Martian online even in the inherently somewhat annoying written in realtime form; so much I showed up to get a signed copy when it was released. In general I'm a sucker for hard scifi, but much of the state of the art in that space is often inaccessible to those of my friends that aren't deeply versed in the literature. The Martian is both accessible (at least to an audience which is generally okay with science and technology) and compelling story telling as well.

> People aren't "gifted" with technology I used the words "humans having been gifted digital technology" as I am a marxist and I believe that all the technologies and scientific knowledge that we reverse engineer from nature is gifted to us by a higher power. Others talk about the brilliance of human minds, yet since I see us as a part of nature, there's no distinction in that for me. Another reason I say it that way is because unfortunately the 'great man theory/myth' still reigns supreme in the tech industry [1]. I think though that this 'brilliant mind' story that is commonly told in the west seems to have often justified detrimental and destructive human supremacy/domination over the rest of nature (also leading us to the edge of the cliff now with global warming). Anyways, I think that we all tell ourselves different stories and this is one of mine. This is another story I tell myself because it is ridiculously beautiful to me: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html or Kurzgesagt version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI > I was privileged enough to have my mother sacrifice everything(her property, her life, her family and her homeland) to pull me out of a warzone to provide for me so I would be in a position to be able to build these skills. That sounds incredibly difficult and distressing for her (and possibly for you too). Thank you for sharing this personal story here. > Just calling the whole thing privilege is such a disservice to all she…

I’ve taken mushrooms quite a few times. Sometimes, it’s just been mild and giggling at colors and nature. Pleasant, but just kind of a fun drug. With a moderate dose, you tend to be introspective and consider your own life and relationships in different ways. There’s usually a lesson at the end. With higher doses, it’s sometimes been just extremely confusing and not at all fun, to the extent that I’d forget my own name or what I’ve taken and basically just all memories. It’s very frustrating to be in that state, constantly trying not to fly away but not able to ground yourself. It’s a little disturbing, but not horrific. I think the reason for this is that I am afraid to lose my ego/die and I would actually benefit from a slightly higher dose to blast it away... With really high doses though, it’s been a truly beautiful, enlightening experience. I still think of it sometimes. It’s very difficult to really explain in words, but it feels like kind of extreme empathy with all life. Buddhists would call it going egoless. I just felt very at peace: we all live, we all die, and it’s all okay. I’m not particularly religious or spiritual at all but that experience really changed me. It feels like life is in all these different forms, and you just happen to be one variation of it, but you could easily be any other living thing, so you just feel love and empathy for all life. And you know it’s finite and you’re not afraid of death. I would still attempt to avoid death, but I was…

https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg.html Andy Weir's The Egg makes regular HackerNews appearances.

I quite liked The Egg by Andy Weir (author of The Martian): https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html Edit: I guess it's not exactly sci-fi, but it's adjacent.

Interfering with the pathway that causes cell death is very interesting. Maybe more than freezing. Related sci-fi: https://galactanet.com/oneoff/antihypoxiant.html

> In fact, if you're a believer in string theory, one could imagine that there's one fundamental string particle that's moving back and forth through time, creating all the other particles as it does so. Or take that further, and you get The Egg, by Andy Weir: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

You're discussing The Egg. I appreciate that. https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Sounds like The Egg by Andy Weir http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Relevant Andy Weir short story: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/twarrior.html

Who says you have to get reincarnated in the future? Maybe next up you'll be a 17th century peasant. Hell everyone that has ever and will ever live could all just be the same person. [0] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Reminds me of The Egg: http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Today you, tomorrow me. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

didn't expect to be this moved today, on HN. this reminded me of The Egg, and decided to reread it. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

This is very interesting. In a limited but substantial way, transplanting parts of the photosynthetic cell system could help with a lot of cell-centric metabolic deficiencies in people, from T1 diabetes to hypoxia in general. The delivery method seems to be cumbersome. But perhaps in the next decade we'll have CRISPR vectors that can deliver genetic information for organelles in a cell, and that could also help with rejection. Slightly related - this study reminds me of an Andy Weir short story Antihypoxiant - http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/antihypoxiant.html.

>Sounds like we're all the same endlessly reincarnated single person, only at different points in spacetime. Andy Weir - The Egg [1] [1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Are you referring to Andy Weir's "The Egg"[1]? [1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html