Can anyone recommend a hard scifi/fantasy book that explicitly uses maps/diagrams/other illustrations as part of its "hardness"?

Title, I basically want to see a book that would be like a technical book on science or engineering or naval strategy if it weren't fiction.

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LetusBeatl@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Stormlight Archive?

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Been a while since I read that, did it really have illustrations?

LetusBeatl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

More than I am used to. Maybe one every 75-100 pages or something like that

Eq0@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Jurassic Park has illustrations along the story that “explain” what chaos is. The book is significantly “harder” than the movie, I feel. Is this what you are looking for?

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Thanks for the suggestion, I have read jurassic park, though didn't like it for unrelated reasons

Eq0@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Can I ask you the reason? I really enjoyed it, but i read it in my teens and don’t remember much.

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

I don't really remember either, mostly just found it underwhelming and a waste of potential. Never watched the movies as a result.