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FMguru posted:it's too bad - simmons has written some great stuff, especially the Hyperion books, but after 9/11 he fell headfirst into islamofascism/eurabia paranoia like he had ten thousand posts on freerepublic. sad. holy fuckin poo poo this is THAT dan simmons?! loved the hyperion series, guy literally wrote a sci fi epic based on the canterbury tales and featuring a lot of keats, and now he's writing glenn beck yiff fuel goddamn thanks for ruining my night
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Amethyst posted:skip gaiman, read clive barker's weaveworld and immagica instead quotin dis, been 25 years but iirc weaveworld was the best clive barker homercles posted:If you want something to read, start out here, work your way up or down, just skip 2010 holky gently caress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel I didn't know the hugo was named after hugo gernsback first time I read about that guy was in william gibson's short story the gernsback continuum in burning chrome pretty late to this thread but seriously has there been a better sci fi published since necromancer edit: it's artless so hard to compare to neuromancer but vacuum diagrams by stephen baxter is about the best I've read in the past 25 years, endlessly imaginative, hard science, a conflict that spans the size and age of our universe etc, doesn't get any grander Internaut! fucked around with this message at Jun 4, 2012 around 00:45 |
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Amethyst posted:abarat is garbage wasn't that his attempt at sucking money from the harry potter/twilight market
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holy poo poo, used to watch this when I was a kid dad always liked princess ardala but I'm more of a colonel wilma deering man
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 22:21 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Omg Buck just roofied the princess watched the whole thing best parts were the kraftwerk-lite song at the big soiree and of course Colonel Wilma Deering 
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well to be fair she wasn't put on this earth to talk
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Deuterieux posted:it stuck that way as a child and she somehow managed to work that into a career. she had other assets too  ok that's enough ladypostin for me, thanks for the trip down mammary lane
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2012 16:45 |
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so uh all you dudes who went to see the new Snow White movie, in opening week, at the theatres were you guys on dates with girls, or
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2012 12:35 |
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watched prometheus again literally everything in that movie is wrong, starting with the braveheart style theme at 5 seconds into the picture goddamn what a disappointment, although scott's track record on director's cuts transforming a movie ala blade runner is excellent edit: no even then it's hosed unless they remove everything to do with engineers Internaut! fucked around with this message at Jun 18, 2012 around 12:56 |
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Amethyst posted:every body watch Black Mirror right the gently caress now the 2nd ep, 15 Million Merits, is basically the world that Google dreams about bringing to life
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2012 13:04 |
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Slumber, watcher, 'til the spheres, six and twenty thousand years have revolved, and I return to the spot where now I burn. Other stars anon shall rise to the axis of the skies; stars that soothe and stars that bless with a sweet forgetfulness: Only when my round is o'er shall the past disturb thy door. >25 years and I still remember it line for line
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Ronald Raiden posted:it's the lyrics to Allstar by smashmouth  I remember it because we had to pick some poetry to memorize and recite for school, and one of the other dorks already chose The Raven, it just stuck in my head forever lots of fond memories of reading those stories one summer at camp with a flashlight in my sleeping bag, I'd go back an reread them but they'd probably wither under my middle aged cynicism Internaut! fucked around with this message at Jun 21, 2012 around 09:52 |
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ahhh spiders posted:haha drat, turns out u r a 90's kid after all eh that's from an hp lovecraft story from the 20s iirc was it also featured in a pokemon episode or something
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axolotl farmer posted:Tarkovski - Stalker, Solaris. So pretty, so slow I prefer clooney's solaris tbh, stalker is a masterpiece, read geoff dyer's zona if you agree can't remember if it was kid lit or not but I remember one of the best fantasy series I ever read was The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Kavriel Kay
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2012 13:51 |
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re enterprise I heard the 3rd season (one big arc) was good? I tried watching the series premiere though and turned it off at the theme song
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| # ¿ Jul 4, 2012 15:36 |
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E2M3 posted:i really wanted to like american gangster and matchstick men too but hated htem both nice opinions mister carehard badtaste
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ian holm >>>>> fassbender on the android actor scale but fassbender was given poo poo to work with
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that awful man posted:i still can't believe that they're rebooting the spiderman series so soon. I can't believe there isn't a spider man/batman/superman etc movie released every year like call of duty moviegoers have proven they'll pay to watch any loving thing featuring super powers and big explosions
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2012 13:32 |
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as soon as time travel enters a story universe, there's no point caring what happens anymore with time travel, everything is possible and nothing is what it seems major character dies? go back in time and save him protagonist suffers big defeat at the hands of his enemies? go back in time and change history time travel makes for great what-if stories but works much better as a one-off instead of a feature in a series with continuity, since the viewer has no need to invest themselves in the story with the giant time travel undo button lurking in the background
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| # ¿ Jul 9, 2012 01:34 |
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Shaggar posted:there arent any 2 parters in s1 i dont think except for literally the series premiere come on son
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| # ¿ Jul 12, 2012 10:39 |
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just chiming in to say I saw iron maiden last week in toronto and they not only owned pretty hard but are a fairly sci-fi-ish band as evidenced by the many sci fi references in this classic album cover
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| # ¿ Jul 17, 2012 00:06 |
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Chaka Make Tablet posted:they're the perfect pinnacle of nerd cheese and totally enjoyable if you can suspend elitism long enough taste != elitism, republican
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| # ¿ Jul 18, 2012 01:55 |
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Heresiarch posted:I re-watched Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" the other day and it holds up surprisingly well. I mean, it's not good that's because it's great seriously couldn't go near a mirror for two days after seeing that late one night as a kid
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| # ¿ Jul 19, 2012 11:45 |
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got a lot of travel coming up and loading up the phone with books for the road, comments and criticism on the following appreciated china mieville - embassytown, kraken, the city and the city iain banks - matter, surface detail I like the mieville that I've read (the new crobuzon books) and for the most part I like banks' culture novels but some of them not as much as others
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Chaka Make Tablet posted:the culture books all provide context for each other, but so far the best two, by far, are Use of Weapons and Excession. Excession is so good it beggars the rest of his work. same are any of his non culture books any good? I think I read wasp factory, if I did it didn't make much of an impression
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if they ever make a high res kindle I might, until then I'll take my retina displays
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2012 01:35 |
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Amethyst posted:text is infinitely more comfortable to read on eInk than lcd I find it uncomfortable when I bleed from the eyes reading low contrast 80dpi text but ymmv
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this was a p cool thread I'm gonna miss it when it gets gassed for seriousposts about vampires
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