If you want some space opera antics, you might want to try Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. A humanoid species known as The Festival descends on a backwater repressive pseudo-medieval world and complicates everyone's lives by giving away high technology to anyone that entertains them.
Basically the book starts with an orbiting hivemind raining Cellphone like devices from the sky onto the surface of a planet which has intentionally eschewed technology, and when people pick them up, a voice says "Tell us a story, and we'll give you anything"
Here's a snip from it's wiki entry:
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> "The novel follows the ill-fated military campaign by a repressive state, the New Republic, to retaliate for a perceived invasion of one of its colony worlds. In actuality, the planet has been visited by the Festival, a technologically advanced alien race that rewards its hosts for "entertaining" them by granting whatever the entertainer wishes, including the Festival's own technology. This causes extensive social, economic and political disruption to the colony, which was generally limited by the New Republic to technology equivalent to that found on Earth during the Industrial Revolution. "
There's actually quite a bit of good post-singularity literature. You should check some of it out. Here's a quick list of a few of my favorites:
If you want some space opera antics, you might want to try Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. A humanoid species known as The Festival descends on a backwater repressive pseudo-medieval world and complicates everyone's lives by giving away high technology to anyone that entertains them.
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I have a book recommendation that you may enjoy (based on what you just described above) Singularity Sky, By Charles Stross
Basically the book starts with an orbiting hivemind raining Cellphone like devices from the sky onto the surface of a planet which has intentionally eschewed technology, and when people pick them up, a voice says "Tell us a story, and we'll give you anything"
Here's a snip from it's wiki entry:
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> "The novel follows the ill-fated military campaign by a repressive state, the New Republic, to retaliate for a perceived invasion of one of its colony worlds. In actuality, the planet has been visited by the Festival, a technologically advanced alien race that rewards its hosts for "entertaining" them by granting whatever the entertainer wishes, including the Festival's own technology. This causes extensive social, economic and political disruption to the colony, which was generally limited by the New Republic to technology equivalent to that found on Earth during the Industrial Revolution. "