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Three Worlds Collide

Jul 06, 2018 by Eliezer Yudkowsky
"The kind of classic fifties-era first-contact story that Jonathan Swift might have written, if Jonathan Swift had had a background in game theory."
      -- (Hugo nominee) Peter Watts, "In Praise of Baby-Eating"

Three Worlds Collide is a story I wrote to illustrate some points on naturalistic metaethics and diverse other issues of rational conduct.  It grew, as such things do, into a small novella.  On publication, it proved widely popular and widely criticized.  Be warned that the story, as it wrote itself, ended up containing some profanity and PG-13 content.

(PDF is here. Old contents post with comments is here.)

129The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8)
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90War and/or Peace (2/8)
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126The Super Happy People (3/8)
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93Interlude with the Confessor (4/8)
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86Three Worlds Decide (5/8)
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86Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8)
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70True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8)
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104Epilogue: Atonement (8/8)
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