{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Other two favorite books", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/618078319361064960/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Other two favorite books</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/618078056556396544/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>John Varley\u2019s <i>Steel Beach</i>, David Brin\u2019s <i>Earth</i>, honorable mention to Nancy Kress\u2019 <i>Beggars &amp; Choosers</i></p><p>&hellip;I guess by \u201cof all time\u201d I mean \u201cof the early-mid 90s when I was reading a lot of SF\u201d</p></blockquote><p><p>I guess that\u2019s a key to \u201cwtf happened to the geek identity\u201d: as late as the 1990s, the core constituency was <i>people who read novels</i></p></p>"}