My #top100 #scifi Num:56 The Smoke Ring

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An infinite universe will be full of surprises. The Smoke Ring is such a wonder. Like the Ring World, it’s another solar system scale torus, but even further from familiar terra firma – there is no ground in this free fall ring of gas.
It’s also a great story with believable characters doing what humans do best, against all the odds.

Forget Software—Hackers Are Exploiting Physics

Dumb humans are discovering these exquisite exploits in the machines we have made.

I wonder how long it will take for our machines to find the exploits in their makers…

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The Wikipedia has more:
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(And by the way, Row Hammer would be an awesome name for a rock band!!)

My #top100 #scifi Num:57 Atlas Shrugged

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Calling this Science Fiction is perhaps provocative. However, there is ample fictional science — which should be enough. More significant is its expression of the genre’s philosophical inclinations in the examination of Mankind and her societies — and this is where the book gets interesting…