6 Best philosophy books like The Fifth Science by Exurb1a

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The Fifth Science

By: Exurb1a

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing …

"Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Distance appears to only apply when the universe knows She is being watched."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Distance appears to only apply when the universe knows She is being watched."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Fifth Science by Exurb1a , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Diaspora

By: Greg Egan

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyon… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Unsong

By: Scott Alexander

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of oth… read more

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  • science fiction
  • philosophy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

4. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

By: None

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that ca… read more

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5. The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think

By: Robert Pantano

4.36

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of essays that journey through philosophy and grapple with the increasingly relevant p… read more

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  • philosophy
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6. Jenny Trapdoor

By: Neal Asher

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. Th… read more

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  • science fiction
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7. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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8. Ed

By: qntm

4.08

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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9. Ra

By: qntm

4.11

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's m… read more

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  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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10. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

By: qntm

4.34

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more

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  • short story collection
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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11. The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when you… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spr…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategi…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

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12. Carpathians

By: Paul Dixon

4.34

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic First Contact story on a galactic scale. Humans have reached the stars, but there is no ev… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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13. The Fifth Science

By: Exurb1a

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing … read more

Similar categories in Exurb1a's The Fifth Science book and Exurb1a's The Fifth Science

  • short story collection
  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • philosophy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Distance appears to only apply when the universe knows She is being watched."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Go home and write me, tell me how it was, leave a review. Go home, you bunch of absolute, absolute oxygen thieves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Adam laid in the dark for a long time, thinking and not thinking. Thinking in an indirect way in the fashion one knows the sun is there without having to look straight at the thing."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

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14. Fine Structure

By: qntm

4.07

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Fledgling physicist Ching-Yu Kuang has discovered a Rosetta Stone for all of physics, a treasure tr… read more

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  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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15. Sleep and the Soul

By: Greg Egan

4.07

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

Sleep and the Soul contains ten stories from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.“You and Whose Arm… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Sleep and the Soul book and Exurb1a's The Fifth Science

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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16. Archipelago

By: H.R. Hawkins

4.13

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

For half a century, the Archipelago has been silent. Alone, out on the galaxy's rim, an eccentric c… read more

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  • science fiction
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17. 17776: What football will look like in the future

By: Jon Bois

4.68

Format: None pages, None

17776, also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future, is a serialized speculative fictio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"Now they are resting in a moment that will last until the end of time."

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

"Who was it who said, uh, “even if life is forever, each moment of it is a miracle?"

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

"That terror wasn't natural. No other creature in the universe woke up every morning knowing it was guaranteed to die one day. Just us."

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

"I wonder if there's a single place in the whole world that's never had a story. I bet not. I just about guarantee you there's no places like that in America. Every little square of it, every place yo…"

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

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18. Notes from the End of Everything

By: Robert Pantano

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

The writer and creator of the YouTube channel and production house Pursuit of Wonder brings you his… read more

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  • philosophy
  • fiction
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19. The Hidden Story of Every Person : & Other Short Stories

By: Robert Pantano

4.40

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of short stories that bend the mind, pull the heartstrings, and explore the eternal qu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Millions of Little Threads

By: Robert Pantano

4.08

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

“It’s like there are a million little threads attached to everything—everything you think and choos… read more

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  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.38

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

16 must-read fiction books like The Fifth Science by Exurb1a

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Diaspora

Greg Egan

4.39

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Unsong

Scott Alexander

4.29

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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There Is No Antimemetics Division

qntm

4.25

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20 Best fiction books like Ed by qntm

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The Prince of Milk

Exurb1a

4.24

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Diaspora

Greg Egan

4.39

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Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

Greg Egan

4.39

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4.01

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