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I'll watch it!


That sounds really interesting! I need to take a look at it!


Wow that is fantastic!


The New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) has a website with a compilation of references to recursion in science fiction: Recursive Science Fiction[1].

[1] https://data.nesfa.org/Recursion/index.htm


Federico Fellini's 8½?... Criterion Collection mentions that "8½ is a film about making a film, and the film that is being made is 8½".


I saw the movie ages ago and can't remember the plot. It was really good, though.


Raymond Smullyan's riddles book What is the Name of This Book paradoxically refers to itself in its title.


Inception is an exceptionally good example! I'm a big fan of Borges and although I'm sure that there must be one of his stories containing a relationship with recursion, I can't think of one right now.


Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996) has an interesting structure using hundreds of footnotes some of which have themselves footnotes. The ending is not straightforward and the novel's chronology non-lineal. It contains disgressions on many topics. According to the Wikipedia, in an interview Wallace mentioned that the plotting and notes have a fractal structure modeled after the Sierpiński gasket, suggesting some degree of recursion.


Definitely looking forward to The Winds of Winter ... XD


That’s the wrong Martin.


I was just joking hehe


Check The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Wordplays by Martin Gardner. I think you might like it.


It's on my bookshelf. But the prompt said only one book. :)


You're cool :D


Not even a quarter as cool as Martin Gardner.


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