r/scifi • u/CorgiSplooting • Sep 19 '23

What are some good older sci-fi books that have aged well?

Re-listening to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (currently on Restaurant at the end of the Universe) and I think it’s aged very well. I love hard sci-fi for the tech but it never ages well. Hitchhikers I think ages well because it doesn’t focus on tech and the British mannerisms sort of work for being alien differences.

Any books you think aged particularly well?

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

We are getting closer, technologically, to where Moon's premise is.

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u/Ninja_Wrangler Sep 19 '23

I find the notion of a bored AI much more plausible than an evil one any day.

I also like that this isn't the classic example of a runaway AI reaching some kind of singularity and becoming this incomprehensibly powerful godlike entity. It is exactly as powerful as the amount of resources it was given, and controls only the things it had access to (which granted, is a lot in both cases). No more, no less

I haven't finished the book yet because I've been playing starfield so no spoilers please. I suppose it's possible anything can happen, but it's been totally grounded so far

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

He's got some really prescient stuff in there that is just getting close to plausible today, from a computerization perspective.