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Interplanetary conflict, some disease destroys the ability to understand or appreciate music
Heroic Federation-like organization gains the ability to predict entropy hijinks ensueTime traveller destroys the universe by going fifteen minutes backTrying to find story, with an alien race who was digging tunnels to change planet's rotation and eventually orbitTrying to find the name of a story about humanity having the power to collapse quantum states in their favourLooking for a book where some girls and boys have the ability to manipulate life and time like the FatesSci-Fi book where spider-like alien lives on the hull of a ship and configures his web to forecast space weather or the future?Looking for a late 1950s to early 1960s movie or TV show with some similarities to “The Zanti Misfits”2000s(?) trans/post-humanist coming-of-age story with a wooden spaceship, augmented reality, and a “God Drive”Book where people catch the Green Sick, an alien disease, they need evacuating off world to be curedNovel: little girl holding a green stone that gave her the ability to talk to animals
There is some kind of interplanetary conflict going on between different human factions (aliens may or may not be involved). As a relatively minor plot point a group of or all humans have lost the ability to appreciate or comprehend music through a virus or other disease. I believe it changed their DNA so the (loss) trait was inherited.
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There is some kind of interplanetary conflict going on between different human factions (aliens may or may not be involved). As a relatively minor plot point a group of or all humans have lost the ability to appreciate or comprehend music through a virus or other disease. I believe it changed their DNA so the (loss) trait was inherited.
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There is some kind of interplanetary conflict going on between different human factions (aliens may or may not be involved). As a relatively minor plot point a group of or all humans have lost the ability to appreciate or comprehend music through a virus or other disease. I believe it changed their DNA so the (loss) trait was inherited.
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There is some kind of interplanetary conflict going on between different human factions (aliens may or may not be involved). As a relatively minor plot point a group of or all humans have lost the ability to appreciate or comprehend music through a virus or other disease. I believe it changed their DNA so the (loss) trait was inherited.
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That's Alastair Reynolds "Century Rain" (my personal favourite among Reynolds' novels). The war is between two human factions - "Threshers" (derived from "threshold", since they don't allow technology beyond a certain level of complexity) and "Slashers", who embrace nanotechnology. Earth was an early casualty in their conflict.
No aliens per se, but Alien artifacts (artifical wormholes, copies of planet Earth).
Haven't the book with me, but e.g. this review specifically mentions the "amusica virus" (strange review by the way, since music actually has a big role in the novel). Also this one.
Made it even into TV tropes (there goes the rest of your day):
Dreadful Musician: Averted in Century Rain: in an early scene the
protagonist is walking into a superior's office while he plays a
violin, with her Internal Monologue noting how grating and painful the
music is. It is then revealed that she, along with a large portion of
the rest of the human race, were infected with a designer-disease
called 'amusica', which prevented people from enjoying music, to ruin
their side's morale. After all, someone who can't appreciate music
can't get patriotic fervor from their anthems, now can they?
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That's Alastair Reynolds "Century Rain" (my personal favourite among Reynolds' novels). The war is between two human factions - "Threshers" (derived from "threshold", since they don't allow technology beyond a certain level of complexity) and "Slashers", who embrace nanotechnology. Earth was an early casualty in their conflict.
No aliens per se, but Alien artifacts (artifical wormholes, copies of planet Earth).
Haven't the book with me, but e.g. this review specifically mentions the "amusica virus" (strange review by the way, since music actually has a big role in the novel). Also this one.
Made it even into TV tropes (there goes the rest of your day):
Dreadful Musician: Averted in Century Rain: in an early scene the
protagonist is walking into a superior's office while he plays a
violin, with her Internal Monologue noting how grating and painful the
music is. It is then revealed that she, along with a large portion of
the rest of the human race, were infected with a designer-disease
called 'amusica', which prevented people from enjoying music, to ruin
their side's morale. After all, someone who can't appreciate music
can't get patriotic fervor from their anthems, now can they?
answered 5 hours ago
Eike PierstorffEike Pierstorff
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That's Alastair Reynolds "Century Rain" (my personal favourite among Reynolds' novels). The war is between two human factions - "Threshers" (derived from "threshold", since they don't allow technology beyond a certain level of complexity) and "Slashers", who embrace nanotechnology. Earth was an early casualty in their conflict.
No aliens per se, but Alien artifacts (artifical wormholes, copies of planet Earth).
Haven't the book with me, but e.g. this review specifically mentions the "amusica virus" (strange review by the way, since music actually has a big role in the novel). Also this one.
Made it even into TV tropes (there goes the rest of your day):
Dreadful Musician: Averted in Century Rain: in an early scene the
protagonist is walking into a superior's office while he plays a
violin, with her Internal Monologue noting how grating and painful the
music is. It is then revealed that she, along with a large portion of
the rest of the human race, were infected with a designer-disease
called 'amusica', which prevented people from enjoying music, to ruin
their side's morale. After all, someone who can't appreciate music
can't get patriotic fervor from their anthems, now can they?
answered 5 hours ago
Eike PierstorffEike Pierstorff
8,67723538
add a comment |
That's Alastair Reynolds "Century Rain" (my personal favourite among Reynolds' novels). The war is between two human factions - "Threshers" (derived from "threshold", since they don't allow technology beyond a certain level of complexity) and "Slashers", who embrace nanotechnology. Earth was an early casualty in their conflict.
No aliens per se, but Alien artifacts (artifical wormholes, copies of planet Earth).
Haven't the book with me, but e.g. this review specifically mentions the "amusica virus" (strange review by the way, since music actually has a big role in the novel). Also this one.
Made it even into TV tropes (there goes the rest of your day):
Dreadful Musician: Averted in Century Rain: in an early scene the
protagonist is walking into a superior's office while he plays a
violin, with her Internal Monologue noting how grating and painful the
music is. It is then revealed that she, along with a large portion of
the rest of the human race, were infected with a designer-disease
called 'amusica', which prevented people from enjoying music, to ruin
their side's morale. After all, someone who can't appreciate music
can't get patriotic fervor from their anthems, now can they?
answered 5 hours ago
Eike PierstorffEike Pierstorff
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That's Alastair Reynolds "Century Rain" (my personal favourite among Reynolds' novels). The war is between two human factions - "Threshers" (derived from "threshold", since they don't allow technology beyond a certain level of complexity) and "Slashers", who embrace nanotechnology. Earth was an early casualty in their conflict.
No aliens per se, but Alien artifacts (artifical wormholes, copies of planet Earth).
Haven't the book with me, but e.g. this review specifically mentions the "amusica virus" (strange review by the way, since music actually has a big role in the novel). Also this one.
Made it even into TV tropes (there goes the rest of your day):
Dreadful Musician: Averted in Century Rain: in an early scene the
protagonist is walking into a superior's office while he plays a
violin, with her Internal Monologue noting how grating and painful the
music is. It is then revealed that she, along with a large portion of
the rest of the human race, were infected with a designer-disease
called 'amusica', which prevented people from enjoying music, to ruin
their side's morale. After all, someone who can't appreciate music
can't get patriotic fervor from their anthems, now can they?
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