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Life is a Simulation
This reading list is dedicated to works of Fiction and Non-fiction dealing with simulated reality or uploaded consciousness. Please feel free to contribute and enjoy.
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Ubik
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,694 ratings
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Permutation City
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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Simulacra and Simulation
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,275,599 ratings
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Simulacron 3
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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3.91 avg rating — 45,005 ratings
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The Penultimate Truth
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3.78 avg rating — 11,058 ratings
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Time Out of Joint
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3.87 avg rating — 16,382 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,395 ratings
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Vurt
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4.04 avg rating — 10,269 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 254 ratings
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A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
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Menilik Henry Dyer (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 330 ratings
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My Dirty California
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Jason Mosberg (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Surface Detail (Culture, #9)
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4.26 avg rating — 29,812 ratings
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The Cosmic Puppets
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3.48 avg rating — 3,989 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 78,943 ratings
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The Bequeathal: Godsent
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Zoran Jevtić (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 191,
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Amnesia Moon
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3.49 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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Eye in the Sky
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3.75 avg rating — 6,708 ratings
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The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 23,564 ratings
score: 185,
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The Life Engineered
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J.-F. Dubeau (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 441 ratings
score: 184,
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Chronic City
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3.54 avg rating — 9,074 ratings
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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Dennis E. Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 116,260 ratings
score: 183,
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Diaspora
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4.10 avg rating — 10,837 ratings
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Idlewild (Idlewild, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,856 ratings
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Existence
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 7,081 ratings
score: 174,
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Prometheus Rising
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4.25 avg rating — 7,383 ratings
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Nexus (Nexus, #1)
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Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 20,860 ratings
score: 162,
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The Forever Life (The Forever, #1)
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Craig Robertson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,656 ratings
score: 158,
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The Simulation Hypothesis
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Rizwan Virk (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
score: 152,
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All the World's a Simulation
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Stephen Moles (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 150,
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Restricted Fantasies
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Kevin Kneupper (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 294 ratings
score: 148,
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Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)
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Nino Cipri (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
score: 146,
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Upload
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Mark McClelland (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 142,
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Finity
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3.38 avg rating — 351 ratings
score: 139,
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Caligatha
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Matt Spire (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 421 ratings
score: 134,
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Circuit of Heaven
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4.03 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Lady of Mazes
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3.82 avg rating — 962 ratings
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After Life
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3.83 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)
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Scott Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 28,582 ratings
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The Eden Cycle
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4.02 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Designer
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Somos Monos: Descifrando el código de la realidad
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Recursion (AI Trilogy #1)
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3.40 avg rating — 564 ratings
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River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 16,810 ratings
score: 99,
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The Game (The Game is Life, #1)
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Terry Schott (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 8,928 ratings
score: 99,
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We Are Monkeys: Decoding the reality
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A Maze of Death
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3.82 avg rating — 10,051 ratings
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Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland, #3)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 16,382 ratings
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False Idols (Aeon #1)
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Alexis Grove (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Dhalgren
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3.78 avg rating — 12,132 ratings
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Sea of Silver Light (Otherland, #4)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 14,748 ratings
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Bug Jack Barron
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3.79 avg rating — 1,919 ratings
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Void Star
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Zachary Mason (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
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Matter (Culture, #8)
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4.11 avg rating — 29,447 ratings
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Reality Crash
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Lou Grantt (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Soul Consortium (Soul Archives #1)
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Simon West-Bulford (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 93,
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End of Days
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3.95 avg rating — 164 ratings
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American Elsewhere
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Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 8,064 ratings
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Glasshouse
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 11,585 ratings
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Electric Forest
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Game Slaves
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Gard Skinner (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Manalone
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4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Paprika
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Moongazer
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Mari Mancusi (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 499 ratings
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The Sky Crawlers
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3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Old Twentieth
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Excession (Culture #5)
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Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
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The Song of Synth
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Seb Doubinsky (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Dissidence (The Corporation Wars, #1)
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Stitch (Stitch Trilogy, #1)
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Samantha Durante (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20,560 ratings
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Extraction (Extraction, #1)
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Stephanie Diaz (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Luminous
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Dawn Metcalf (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Darwinia
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Dreamfall (Dreamfall, #1)
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Amy Plum (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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Amatka
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Karin Tidbeck (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 4,290 ratings
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Dark Intelligence (Transformation, #1)
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Neal Asher (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 6,832 ratings
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God-Shaped Hole
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3.89 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
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The Coma
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Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1)
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 8,091 ratings
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White Space (Dark Passages, #1)
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Ilsa J. Bick (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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The Transhumanist Wager
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Zoltan Istvan (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10)
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Six Wakes
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Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
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Post-Human (Post-Human, #2)
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David Simpson (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 2,649 ratings
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The Restoration Game
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Polystom: Two Universes in One Reality
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Breakfast of Champions
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Eternity (The Way, #2)
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Mar 03, 2019 11:14AM
The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game
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