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by WalterBright 1452 days ago
I always kinda avoid scifi stories about super-intelligent beings. There's no way one could write about what they'd be like.

But I make one exception - Brain Wave by Poul Anderson. In it, ordinary people become much more intelligent. Their speech patterns change into very few words, because a more intelligent listener would be better at inferring meaning from the context.