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[Q] Recommended works with smaller "scope"?
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Author: u/None *
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Created: 2015-08-14T20:20:30
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u/alexanderwales [+14] Time flies like an arrow (50 minutes later)
Looking through /r/rational/top/ (and limited to those I've read):
- The Martain, a man has to survive alone on Mars (exotic location but small scope)
- The Cambist and the Lord Iron, a story about economics in a small city
Everything else accelerates in scope towards the end or just starts with a scope that's quite large. (Or I haven't read it, or I don't recommend it, or I was skimming.)
u/None [+4] (5 hours later)
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u/puesyomero [+3] The Culture (6 hours later)
well it was a mutually beneficial exchange and the analysis of a good virtuous life's price in pounds sterling
u/None [+2] (22 hours later)
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u/puesyomero [+2] The Culture (22 hours later)
u/alexanderwales [+3] Time flies like an arrow (17 minutes later)
I would have to reread it to see whether it's actually rational, but the young-adult novel Hatchet might be something like what you want; it's just about a teenage boy surviving in the woods. (If you've already read it, let me know whether this is sort of what you mean by "smaller scope".)
u/None [+6] (38 minutes later)
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u/ToaKraka [+3] https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png (3 hours later)
There's always Robinson Crusoe...
u/puesyomero [+4] The Culture (6 hours later)
and the mysterious island by Verne
u/ToaKraka [+3] https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png (6 hours later)
I preferred Perseverance Island, myself--it reads like a game of Dwarf Fortress! It has, however, been excoriated as rather non-rational.
u/ulyssessword [+3] (9 hours later)
I'd recommend Truth, a 2009 Hugo nominee novella by Robert Reed.
I'd also recommend reading it with zero information going in, not even the little blurb at the top.
u/None [+2] (22 hours later)
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u/ulyssessword [+2] (22 hours later)
Yeah, it doesn't fit with the letter of what you were looking for, but I figured that keeping it contained to a (mostly) 1v1 mental battle made it close enough.
u/FeepingCreature [+2] GCV Literally The Entire Culture (a day later)
I did. Both twists. :3 (Well, half of the first. Didn't see any reason to think spoiler)
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (39 minutes later)
You need to try E. E. Smith's stuff. It's the trope-namer for Lensman Arms Race
His first novel was "Skylark". They start out with handguns and by the last book they're using entire galaxies as weapons.
Err... maybe you need to not try it.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (43 minutes later)
More seriously, Larry Niven's "Gil the Arm" and "Beowulf Schaeffer" stories avoid the scope creep that his better known "Ringworld" series is known for. The "Gil" stories are science fiction detective stories, and I find them quite rational.