Reddit reviews Spares: A Novel

There's an entire (good) sci-fi novel based in part on this idea of "the space between" in computer games - http://www.amazon.com/Spares-Michael-Marshall-Smith/dp/0553579010

If you like this stuff you will probably love it - it's a good novel in it's own right, too.

I thought that movie was disgusting. Who needs to see a four-year-old and a three-year-old hooking up?

^But ^it ^was ^also ^disgusting ^because ^it's ^a ^rip-off ^of ^Spares ^by ^Michael ^Marshall ^Smith^.

• Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish Universe books: Worlds of Exile and Illusion, The Word for World is Forest, and The Left Hand of Darkness
  
• Iain M Banks' Culture Series
  
• Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
  
• Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky
  
• Charles Stross' Singularity books
  
• Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and Have Space Suit, Will Travel
  
• Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward and Spares
  
• Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon
  
• William Gibson's Neuromancer
  
• Larry Niven's Ringworld and The Mote in God's Eye
  
• Frank Herbert's Dune series
  
• John Scalzi's Old Man's War series