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The Ender books [especially the Shadow ones] rely almost exclusively on what I call "magic smart powers" which is when they establish that a character is brilliant and once that happens they can do impossible things and people can't stop them because they're smart this is frequently combined with "hacking" in TV and movies
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Saint Darwin posted:the problem with travel that gets anywhere near the speed of light is that if you crash into say a planet, you basically blow up the planet due to the amount of energy released I have vague memories of some book where they basically just used sand and small dumb projectiles to fight at relativistic velocities and I think there was a treaty against dropping stuff on planets because it was too easy
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May 8, 2013 20:44
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I just finished REAMDE and god drat why isn't that book like 500 pages shorter I mean it wasn't bad but it was not really worth the time to read it
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May 21, 2013 16:27
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when he's sperging out on nerd poo poo is often when he's at his best, the whole dwarf fortress/wow MMO parts were some of the most entertaining bits of the book compared to him describing the motivations of islamic terrorists who are about on the level of sophistication as the ones in team america
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May 21, 2013 17:03
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watched star trak last night, the problems with it are obvious but it was overall entertaining the one thing I don't get is that it seems like starfleet is simultaneously a giant organization and also there's like 5 guys who run everything
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May 30, 2013 18:40
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Watched Wrath of Kahn and Space Seed last night
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Jun 2, 2013 19:55
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not scifi but the entire UK House of Cards series is 12 episodes and a single season of the new one is 13 and at the end of s1 kevin spacey hasn't thrown the chick off a building yet
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Jun 3, 2013 17:52
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:even Tolkein for as wordy as he was only managed ~475,000 words in the entire LOTR trilogy. a whole epic adventure in less than half a million words. has he ever not written giant long stuff though? The pandora star and void stuff was still shorter than night's dawn [which is not really worth reading IMO] axolotl farmer posted:Neal R.R. Stephenson wrote the goddamn Manhattan phonebook that is the Baroque cycle with a loving quill
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Jun 3, 2013 18:21
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Moist von Lipwig posted:has there ever been good tv sci-fi? black mirror? max headroom
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Jul 11, 2013 22:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6AJC2sOY8
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Jul 12, 2013 20:48
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hey I ain't read this thread for like 3 months but I gotta tell y'all that Snowpiercer is a good and non-shameful comic book
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Apr 11, 2014 04:50
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speaking of terrible sci fi series by fantasy authors I read some godawful thing by stephen r donaldson a long time ago it was like a lovely mind control rape fanfic in space fake e: the gap series
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Apr 17, 2014 21:16
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I read thomas covenant when I was a kid but it was way too grimdark and I don't remember much other than an overall impression of gross stuff the gap series was at a used bookstore for $6 for the whole set so I just said gently caress it and bought them
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Apr 17, 2014 21:21
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I didn't really identify with ender, especially in the later books because card is one of those writers who decided that smart people have Magic Smart Powers and so they are invincible, particularly in shadow of the hegemon where the battle school kids come back to earth and are immediately installed at generals of various armies it's the same as Magic Hacking Powers in anything with computers in it, just a lazy plot device
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Apr 26, 2014 16:24
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xenocide put me off of Card for an entire decade, I didn't pick up any of the other books until I was commuting 2 hours each way and reading 5 books a week
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Apr 26, 2014 16:28
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a lot of other poo poo has magic smart powers though, doctor who springs to mind since that's his entire character
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Apr 26, 2014 16:29
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current scifi status: "galaxy of terror" kind of oversold itself in the title, they should have just called it "spooky planet"
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Apr 26, 2014 21:39
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except for teddy bear junction, that place is the worst
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SynthOrange posted:I read hamilton because I was going on a 20 hour flight and I just picked the fattest book on the shelf. Then I picked up the other one for the way back. that's how I ended up grabbing name of the wind
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