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amoruso on Dec 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is there any fiction that's based on a wor...

Greg Egan wrote a few of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_(series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Diaspora starts in this universe but ends up somewhere else.

danbmil99 on Dec 17, 2021 [–]

Greg Egan is great. Strongly recommend Permutation City. Predating The Matrix, they build simulated worlds which then bootstrap themselves into alternate realities. The physics are not the same as our physics but similar.

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