I've noticed a trend of science fiction stories exploring themes like knowledge and belief, or having twists with phenomena or objects that affect the human capacity to know things. This is something I really enjoy, and so should anyone else who likes epistemology. I thought I'd make a thread dedicated solely to these stories (for purposes of discussion, but also to find and share as many of them as possible, since they are very, very rare).
My absolute favorite are the Egan stories: Axiomatic, which is disturbing, and Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies; a really deep allegory for how we believe things in the real world. There's also some excellent entries (guaranteed to cause san checking) in the SCP universe, found here under Antimemetics. Finally, there's Suspension (by Civfanatics' very own Plotinus) about a virus which changes the way people form beliefs. That's all I know of right now.
Please post other stories that you like. Or just your thoughts. These usually have a significant horror factor to them (I suppose due to the nature of the subgenre itself) but they all pretty clearly are sci-fi.
My absolute favorite are the Egan stories: Axiomatic, which is disturbing, and Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies; a really deep allegory for how we believe things in the real world. There's also some excellent entries (guaranteed to cause san checking) in the SCP universe, found here under Antimemetics. Finally, there's Suspension (by Civfanatics' very own Plotinus) about a virus which changes the way people form beliefs. That's all I know of right now.
Please post other stories that you like. Or just your thoughts. These usually have a significant horror factor to them (I suppose due to the nature of the subgenre itself) but they all pretty clearly are sci-fi.
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