If the leap from Adell and Lupov’s lab debate to the Universal AC’s final “LET THERE BE LIGHT!” thrilled you, you’ll love how Tau Zero pushes a single starship past successive cosmic eras. As the Leonora Christine overshoots its target and races on, the crew witnesses the universe age, collapse, and transform—echoing the way each era in The Last Question edges closer to heat death and ultimate renewal.

You were hooked by humans asking Multivac and the Universal AC how to reverse entropy; Permutation City dives just as boldly into whether information can outlast physics. Following Paul Durham and Maria Deluca through mind uploads, self-spawning realities, and the audacious Dust Theory, it scratches the same itch as that final cosmic hack implicit in the AC’s answer.

If the escalating transformations from Multivac to Microvac to the Universal AC filled you with wonder, Rendezvous with Rama delivers that same thrill of encountering the unfathomable. Commander Norton’s crew explores a silent, star-spanning cylinder whose biots, seas, and shifting lights evoke the dizzying, humbling vastness that culminates in “Let there be light.”

Loved how The Last Question hopscotched from early Multivac engineers like Adell and Lupov to far-future minds like Zee Prime? Accelerando strings together sharp vignettes—from Manfred Macx’s memetic hustles to Amber and Sirhan’s posthuman odysseys—as each era’s tech leaps forward toward matrioshka brains and beyond.

If the Universal AC’s godlike arc resonated with you, The City and the Stars offers a haunting parallel: Diaspar’s Central Computer curates immortal lives and reality itself while Alvin seeks what lies outside. That blend of omnipotent computation and mythic revelation mirrors the AC’s long game from human questions to cosmic creation.