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wow a book about a sex toy having adventures has a picture of that sex toy on the cover how terrible
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NoneMoreNegative posted:That's 'The Laundry' for people who want to look it up. While we're on the subject of Lovecraftian Stross freebies, there is the other Laundry short Down on the Farm and the unrelated A Colder War.
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Aug 31, 2011 01:47
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the borg just need to assimilate one jedi and then they can mind trick everybody into standing still while a drone walks up and injects the nanos. they could probably isolate midichlorians, grow them in a lab, and then modify every drone to be a jedi. in conclusion, gently caress george lucas
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Sep 23, 2011 18:34
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rotor posted:also i remember one by whoever wrote ringworld (larry niven? idk) that posited that humans were actually aliens and that our species needed the fruit of some kind of weird tree to actually mature past the adolescent stage and then some space dude finds this tree and transforms into the adult form of humans and some other stuff happens and he flies a big spaceship full of stuff to earth and probably some other stuff happens i cant remember, i was like 12 when i read it, it seemed neat at the time. You forgot the birth-control-via-interspecies-sex thing.
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Sep 24, 2011 03:28
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Rishathra That and the sunflowers are the only thing I remember of Ringworld. The only thing I remember of Rocheworld is the utility bush and the life extension drugs that temporarily induce a retarded child level intelligence with a hyperactive libido. The only thing I remember from Foundation are the hand full of anti-social hermaphrodites living on Earth. Basically what I'm saying is that 1970s scifi was written by perverts. edit: Also, Heinlein. pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Sep 24, 2011 |
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Sep 24, 2011 03:45
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Not every book can be Slaughterhouse Five.
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Sep 24, 2011 04:33
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The new book isn't as good, sadly. It isn't terrible, though. A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky had two interesting stories told simultaneously about a high-tech and a low-tech civilization where great and interesting things are going on, while Children of the Sky is purely about politics in the mostly low-tech human/tine civilization with a bit of setup for book four, when the Blight ramships (may?) finally reach the tine's world.
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Sep 25, 2011 18:41
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Wait, over the gate? Not over the fence? Is their fence one big gate?
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Oct 5, 2011 06:31
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The defining characteristic of the mirror universe is the sash. The goatee is just a bonus.
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Oct 7, 2011 01:54
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:I don't have autism and read for fun, with that in mind does Embassytown get better or does it remain this boring book about dinner parties poo poo hits fan after the off-planet Ambassador arrives. I never stopped being irritated that the Hosts could understand recorded or broadcast speech, though.
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Oct 7, 2011 06:41
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Trig Discipline posted:someone a couple of pages ago said it was okay but not great That was me. Its OK, but not great.
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Oct 9, 2011 23:52
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z0r z0r gabor
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Oct 10, 2011 23:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HpIZrOH4zc
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Oct 12, 2011 04:47
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
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Oct 16, 2011 20:51
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it's in slot two of my queue, right after the original star trek
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Oct 16, 2011 20:55
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Reamde is easily the worst thing that Stephenson has written.
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Oct 17, 2011 01:51
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And that includes all the books he co-wrote with his uncle under a pseudonym.
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Oct 17, 2011 01:53
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theflyingexecutive posted:also, someone answer this question: There was a second season?
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Oct 17, 2011 07:31
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original said "go away"
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Nov 1, 2011 03:40
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Sniep posted:And what are some 24th century sex toys? I mean, really... Dont cockblock us, star trek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs
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Nov 2, 2011 22:45
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LP97S posted:Your posts will be assimilated. Your post are, like the Kazon, inferior and unworthy of assimilation.
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Nov 4, 2011 05:57
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it's easier to skip the middle-man and hate voyager directly
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Nov 4, 2011 06:31
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Metalocalypse is pretty good
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Nov 8, 2011 05:19
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which is the most egregious violation of thermodynamics: kink springs in the windup girl or wind powered heaters in the mars trilogy?
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Nov 9, 2011 20:32
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libraries own
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Nov 10, 2011 06:17
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that's the trilogy that ends with Luke Skywalker battling his evil clone Luuuke Skywalker, right?
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Nov 10, 2011 07:58
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those were pretty decent books. took me way too many years after the fact to get the Luuuke in-joke, though.
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Nov 10, 2011 08:02
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has anybody said the vorkosigan saga yet? because those are pretty good too.
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Nov 10, 2011 08:28
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In the first trilogy, yes. The second is widely hated for reasons I don't remember. OTOH, Eric S. Raymond hates David Brin, so read them anyway. pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Nov 14, 2011 |
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Nov 14, 2011 18:07
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Even if you ignore everything related to his personal life, Doctorow is still a terrible scifi author. He actually thought that car-based adhoc wireless P2P music sharing networks was a thing worth writing about.
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Nov 16, 2011 00:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTkOWjl3w4 genetically engineered biological mesh network nodes would be cool
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Nov 16, 2011 00:39
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I don't know why I started with car music sharing, he actually thought people sneaking into Disneyland to live there permanently was a thing worth writing about.
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Nov 16, 2011 00:56
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no, capitalism still exists, you just have to evade disney security for the rest of your life
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Nov 16, 2011 22:58
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Yeah, its his first book and released long enough ago that you could conceivably have not yet figured out that he was a moron. I only read a bit of the beginning. 
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Nov 17, 2011 01:08
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My biggest gripe about the Mistborn trilogy is how he pulled a Mormon at the end.
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Nov 18, 2011 05:10
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PSA: Don't cheap out and use plant-grade nano instead of medical-grade nano to improve yourself.
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Nov 18, 2011 20:05
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raruler posted:So I've been reading Jack McDevitt novels lately. The Alex Benedicts ones are so formulaic you'd find them on the side of a Bisquick box. I have no idea how Jack McDevitt wins awards. I assumed it was some kind of Canadian patriotism thing, but it turns out he isn't Canadian.
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Nov 22, 2011 00:03
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aliens (often machines) scouring the galaxy of all life was an established trope before mass effect
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Nov 22, 2011 05:02
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BonzoESC posted:yeah but before mass effect games forum posters didn't convert thousands of dollars into stupid emoticons and avatars for those of you who were curious like me, there are no less than eleven mass effect emoticons
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it is also a game about having poorly written sex with aliens
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