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Known Space novels (incl. the Puppeteers)
Larry Niven
“is a great writer”
“larry niven is a great writer uh and he imagines different kinds of civilizations in some cases what happens if intelligence evolved from a herd animal”— Garry Nolan
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
“you can go all the way back to richard dawkins and uh the selfish gene hypotheses the way i look at dna”— Garry Nolan
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Uplift Universe series
David Brin
“david brin is his name and he writes the so-called uplift universe books and in those he takes different intelligences each from a different evolutionary background”— Garry Nolan
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Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
“let me leave you with some words from stanislav lem in solaris how do you expect to communicate with the ocean when we can't even understand one another”— Lex Fridman
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