Rational Fiction Public

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Rational fiction is a genre focusing on intellectually stimulating storylines, intelligent characters, consistent and realistic worldbuilding and deconstruction of tropes. Several works are fan-fictions realistically re-examining existing franchises.

Also see www.goodreads.com/list/show/100705.Rational_Fiction and old.reddit.com/r/rational/wiki/listofrationalstories and rr.noblejury.com/#/works

Basically anything by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Wildbow, Sam Hughes, Greg Egan, Scott Alexander, Andrew Wales, Neal Stephenson.

  1. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by 

    In this alternative version of J.K. Rowling's famous tale, Petunia Evans marries the biochemist Michael Verres. The couple adopts her …

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  2. Worm by  (Parahumans)

    An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy …

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  3. The Metropolitan Man by 

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  4. Three Worlds Collide by 

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  5. Ra by ,

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  6. Worth the Candle by 

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  7. Unsong by 

    Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of other minimum-wage workers try to …

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  8. Sufficiently Advanced Magic by  (Arcane Ascension, #1)

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  9. Crystal Society by  (Crystal Trilogy)

    Crystal Society is a science fiction novel about minds: human, alien, and artificial.

    The book's protagonist is an artificial intelligence: …

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  10. A Practical Guide to Evil by  (A Practical Guide to Evil, #1-7)

    The Empire stands triumphant.

    For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom …

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  11. Fine Structure by 

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  12. Anathem by 

    Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent …

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