<![CDATA["The Books that saw it coming"]]>"The Books that saw it coming"

Bookstores and librarians ❤️

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/727596d6-774a-4cf6-8ee2-04a12e146318/the-books-that-saw-it-comingRSS for NodeMon, 24 Aug 2026 15:41:13 GMTSat, 08 Aug 2026 17:52:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:51:30 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Children of Time gives me at least a bit of hope

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/theDuesentrieb/statuses/117061628119630800https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/theDuesentrieb/statuses/117061628119630800Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:51:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:45:53 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay sad, but good to see. I saw a great display like this at Powell’s.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/markwyner/statuses/117061605982917834https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/markwyner/statuses/117061605982917834Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:45:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:33:57 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Children of Time?

So we're gonna get the giant sentient jumping spiders?!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.party/users/hakfoo/statuses/117061559090464976https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.party/users/hakfoo/statuses/117061559090464976Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:33:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:30:43 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Octavia 🥰

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/andifa/statuses/117061546393738002https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/andifa/statuses/117061546393738002Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:30:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:28:14 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay @alice This is such an awesome idea

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Em0nM4stodon/statuses/117061536608111159https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Em0nM4stodon/statuses/117061536608111159Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:28:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:26:53 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Read half of those, but at least two more are missing. Swastika Night and WE. Where'd they go?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/karamazov1879/statuses/117061531322769032https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/karamazov1879/statuses/117061531322769032Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:26:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:23:35 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay
or those were mistaken for a blueprint by guy barely able to think without any sense for morality and ethics and absolutely no appreciation for humanity

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/wobweger/statuses/117061518328625356https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/wobweger/statuses/117061518328625356Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:23:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:06:40 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Alternate title: books techbros read and completely missed the point of

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/scavello/statuses/117061451798781492https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/scavello/statuses/117061451798781492Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:06:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:55:59 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay What shop is that? I want to go.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BenCotterill/statuses/117061409768080975https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/BenCotterill/statuses/117061409768080975Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:55:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:52:02 GMT]]>@woe2you @Natasha_Jay That, yes. But it is also more than a little reactionary in the alternative it presents.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.finkhaeuser.de/users/jens/statuses/117061394259197927https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.finkhaeuser.de/users/jens/statuses/117061394259197927Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:52:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:40:59 GMT]]>@jens @Natasha_Jay Yeah, I missed it at first glance.

It's a lot more prescient than 1984 in that it predicts that the populace will be numbed by bread and circuses rather than an overt militaristic takeover.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117061350828423054https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117061350828423054Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:40:48 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Adrian Tchaikovsky in that crowd is an interesting choice, especially as his books are very much tech and species exotica, not talking about humans so much, imo.

No offence to Tchaikovsky, good stuff, but a heavy-hitter title like this is surely missing Ursula Le Guinn..

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/117061350085244801https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/117061350085244801Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:40:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:39:26 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Octavia Butler's _Dawn_ (Patternmaster series) and _Wild Seed_ (Xenogenesis series) are new to me! Cant wait to check them out.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/hobs/statuses/117061344739528388https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/hobs/statuses/117061344739528388Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:39:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:34:58 GMT]]>@woe2you @Natasha_Jay Middle top row.

Never thought much of it, though.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.finkhaeuser.de/users/jens/statuses/117061327188972822https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.finkhaeuser.de/users/jens/statuses/117061327188972822Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:34:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:16:32 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay and they ALWAYS FUCKING LEAVE OUT JOHN BRUNNER.

He nailed almost everything in "The Shockwave Rider" 50 years ago.

Government run by criminal mobs and large corporations.

Super-connected world.

Prediction markets.

Everything.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://polyglot.city/ap/users/116920690631779955/statuses/117061254703765826https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://polyglot.city/ap/users/116920690631779955/statuses/117061254703765826Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:16:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:14:18 GMT]]>@beecycling @Natasha_Jay Fuck. These are relatively new glasses too, I have no excuse.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117061245905437384https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117061245905437384Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:14:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:13:22 GMT]]>@woe2you @Natasha_Jay Middle of the top shelf - the title is not very readable on that cover.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/ap/users/115537539612269798/statuses/117061242243601225https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/ap/users/115537539612269798/statuses/117061242243601225Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:13:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:56:31 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay Can't stop myself from pedanticly thinking: but Animal Farm is about something that had already happened before it was written.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/RolloTreadway/statuses/117061175961254762https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/RolloTreadway/statuses/117061175961254762Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:56:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:54:57 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay I read most of these... I wish they hadn't been used as instruction sets...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://writing.exchange/users/paulk/statuses/117061169829617375https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://writing.exchange/users/paulk/statuses/117061169829617375Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:54:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "The Books that saw it coming" on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:54:56 GMT]]>@Natasha_Jay No Brave New World? They're missing a trick.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117061169728210364https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117061169728210364Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:54:56 GMT