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A sci fi book or short story I read in the late 80's, I guess, about a group of astronauts, possibly testing out a new engine, who get sucked into a far future where all the left brain people have exterminated the right brain people, because they were a useless burden on society. The future people are stunned that some of the astronauts paint or have creative ideas. I may be misremembering some stuff here. It might have been by Clifford Simak, but I can't see it in his bibliography.
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Feb 17, 2020 03:21
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I don't have platinum, but now I feel like I need to read... whatever that thing is that's being discussed. Is there perhaps an exact set of search terms that could be used to find it?
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Feb 17, 2020 03:39
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I swear this is a book and not a movie but I can't think where I read up on it. Its a book about a space habitat in this deadend trade route thats falling apart and basically lawless at this point. Something is happening on it and theres a long forgotten chamber buried deep in the station that is the center of it that almost no one remember. Does anyone have an idea on what I have stuck in my head? gently caress, that sounds extremely familiar but I can't place it.
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Feb 17, 2020 04:18
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I swear this is a book and not a movie but I can't think where I read up on it. Its a book about a space habitat in this deadend trade route thats falling apart and basically lawless at this point. Something is happening on it and theres a long forgotten chamber buried deep in the station that is the center of it that almost no one remember. Does anyone have an idea on what I have stuck in my head? This isn't it (I don't think), but you're request reminded me of Harlen Ellison's short story "Life Hutch". In it, an astronaut wakes up in a derelict Life Hutch, which is some sort of small outpost in space, I think like an interstellar rest area, after being knocked out, I believe by gunfire or an explosion. What the situation he finds himself in is that there's a motion activated gun turret pointed right at him that's about a second and a half away from shooting. He can't breathe too quickly, can't even blink too quickly or the thing will kill him, and he has to figure out how to get out. Pretty neat read! Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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Feb 17, 2020 05:15
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This isn't it (I don't think), but you're request reminded me of Harlen Ellison's short story "Life Hutch". In it, an astronaut wakes up in a derelict Life Hutch, which is some sort of small outpost in space, I think like an interstellar rest area, after being knocked out, I believe by gunfire or an explosion. There's apparently a VR game based on it that came out last year.
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Feb 17, 2020 05:29
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There's apparently a VR game based on it that came out last year. Whoa, whaaaaaaat? Oh my god, I have to check that out. Not that I have a VR system or anything. Also, if I remember the ending of Life Hutch correctly, that'd be... interesting to do in VR.
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Feb 17, 2020 05:34
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yaffle posted:A sci fi book or short story I read in the late 80's, I guess, about a group of astronauts, possibly testing out a new engine, who get sucked into a far future where all the left brain people have exterminated the right brain people, because they were a useless burden on society. The future people are stunned that some of the astronauts paint or have creative ideas. I may be misremembering some stuff here. It might have been by Clifford Simak, but I can't see it in his bibliography. There was a Sliders episode (map of the mind) with a similar plot - creativity was branded a mental illness and anyone creative was shoved into an asylum and reprogrammed. The whole left/right brain was a core part of the plot. It may have been inspired by the work youi're talkong about.
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Feb 17, 2020 05:46
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I swear this is a book and not a movie but I can't think where I read up on it. Its a book about a space habitat in this deadend trade route thats falling apart and basically lawless at this point. Something is happening on it and theres a long forgotten chamber buried deep in the station that is the center of it that almost no one remember. Does anyone have an idea on what I have stuck in my head? I think this plot has been done a few times. I do t think it's what you're looking for but it definitely reminded me of a part of Charles Stross' Iron Sunrise. Pohl's Heechee books? Tanya Huff's Torin books. Bujold's Falling free? I'm piqued by this one
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Feb 17, 2020 11:27
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I don't have platinum, but now I feel like I need to read... whatever that thing is that's being discussed. Is there perhaps an exact set of search terms that could be used to find it? The story is called Pilgrims to the Cathedral by Mark Arnold. It was published in the collection Silver Scream. If you have an email you aren't afraid to post I can send it to you.
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Feb 17, 2020 13:54
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Requesting a PM for the story being shared
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Feb 17, 2020 17:12
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I swear this is a book and not a movie but I can't think where I read up on it. Its a book about a space habitat in this deadend trade route thats falling apart and basically lawless at this point. Something is happening on it and theres a long forgotten chamber buried deep in the station that is the center of it that almost no one remember. Does anyone have an idea on what I have stuck in my head? Could it be a generation ship story? There's a bunch of them where the nth generation crew have forgotten the mission or even that they're on a ship at all.
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Feb 18, 2020 13:42
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I'm remembering a godawful trilogy of sci-fi books I read in the 90s. I remember reading them over and over and have no idea why. The one thing I remember is that in the third books the mutants/zombies/aliens had names like Darvon and Xanax.
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Feb 18, 2020 16:50
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could someone please pm me the story Edit: Thanks! Skyscraper fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Feb 18, 2020 17:07
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I swear this is a book and not a movie but I can't think where I read up on it. Its a book about a space habitat in this deadend trade route thats falling apart and basically lawless at this point. Something is happening on it and theres a long forgotten chamber buried deep in the station that is the center of it that almost no one remember. Does anyone have an idea on what I have stuck in my head?
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Feb 19, 2020 11:11
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I’ve got a twofer from homeroom reading in high school. I would never bring my own books so I would just grab whatever was lying around. The first one was set in the greater Los Angeles area about a murder of an actress and is told from the perspective of 3 characters, the murderer, the detective and a runaway preteen who witnessed it. The other one was about some old i think former spies, that were trying to track down a nuke. I don’t remember much about it other than the fact that they brought up that it was covered in cobalt multiple times, and that I think it was part of a series because there was a lot of information and characters that they just expected you to know. I don’t remember either book being particularly noteworthy but the fact that I don’t remember their names eats at my soul. 
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Feb 19, 2020 22:42
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A talking coyote posted:
Kind of sounds like Sum of All Fears but This may help First one is maybe LA Confidential
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Feb 20, 2020 00:57
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Sum of all fears sounds right since I did read a few of the Jack Ryan novels back then but weird that I completely blanked on that one. The first one definitely isn’t LA confidential though after a quick glance at the plot summary. Thank you for taking a crack at it though!
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Feb 20, 2020 02:08
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Maybe The Black Dahlia (which is the first in the LA Quartet)?
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Feb 20, 2020 15:48
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I'm looking for a nonfiction book I heard about in passing. It's a lengthy book and I believe it's a fairly recent release, at least post-1990. The author looked at a map of the United States and found the most boring looking spot he could find. He traveled to that county, lived there for a few months and wrote a book about it. Various chapters are devoted to history, ecology, sociolgy, youth culture, religion, etc. of this place.
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Feb 21, 2020 15:31
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bowser posted:I'm looking for a nonfiction book I heard about in passing. It's a lengthy book and I believe it's a fairly recent release, at least post-1990. The author looked at a map of the United States and found the most boring looking spot he could find. He traveled to that county, lived there for a few months and wrote a book about it. Various chapters are devoted to history, ecology, sociolgy, youth culture, religion, etc. of this place. bets on it being in montana
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Feb 21, 2020 15:41
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bowser posted:I'm looking for a nonfiction book I heard about in passing. It's a lengthy book and I believe it's a fairly recent release, at least post-1990. The author looked at a map of the United States and found the most boring looking spot he could find. He traveled to that county, lived there for a few months and wrote a book about it. Various chapters are devoted to history, ecology, sociolgy, youth culture, religion, etc. of this place. Is it Ceremonial Time? Ninja edit: or PrairyErth? Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 20:09
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Yes, it's PrairyErth! Thank you! Ceremonial Time also sounds interesting, will add both to my reading list.
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Feb 24, 2020 17:04
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Guys don't post about  If you PM each other, I don't see it If you post in the forum about filesharing, I see it, and then I have to take action My initial action: everyone stop posting about thanks also, remember that local libraries exist, and they often have inter library loan
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Feb 25, 2020 12:05
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bowser posted:Yes, it's PrairyErth! Thank you! Ceremonial Time also sounds interesting, will add both to my reading list. I recommend his first book, Blue Highways, as well.
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Feb 28, 2020 06:32
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There was a children’s/YA novel I can’t remember the title of. I read it in the mid/early 2000’s. A boy finds himself transported to a medieval kingdom ruled by an evil wizard, uses his tumbling skills to be employed as the wizard’s entertainer and then uses a tumbling routine to snatch the wizard’s macguffin out of his hand.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:There was a children’s/YA novel I can’t remember the title of. I read it in the mid/early 2000’s. A boy finds himself transported to a medieval kingdom ruled by an evil wizard, uses his tumbling skills to be employed as the wizard’s entertainer and then uses a tumbling routine to snatch the wizard’s macguffin out of his hand. The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop. I read that a ton when I was a kid.
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Mar 1, 2020 22:10
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Thank you! Between that book, The Doll People, Indian in the Cupboard and probably more books I’ve read about living dolls I’m surprised I didn’t have strange notions about toys.
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Mar 1, 2020 23:02
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For no absolutely no reason related to current events, I've been thinking about a story I read a few years ago. It was framed as a woman's cooking blog during a pandemic and quarantine. Each entry had her trying to put a cheerful face on the situation and writing a new recipe out of diminishing supplies. I don't remember if it had a happy or sad ending. Google is not giving me great results right now with search terms like "cooking blog" and "global pandemic".
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Mar 8, 2020 02:05
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wizzardstaff posted:For no absolutely no reason related to current events, I've been thinking about a story I read a few years ago. It was framed as a woman's cooking blog during a pandemic and quarantine. Each entry had her trying to put a cheerful face on the situation and writing a new recipe out of diminishing supplies. I don't remember if it had a happy or sad ending. This one? Naomi Kritzer, So much cooking
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That's the one, thanks! e: I reread it. It has a happy ending. wizzardstaff fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Mar 8, 2020 |
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Mar 8, 2020 02:26
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wizzardstaff posted:That's the one, thanks! It was good and the happy/hopeful ending came as a surprise, but a nice one.
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eating only apples posted:I'm back again looking for more teen horror stories. Still looking for all three of these! 
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Mar 8, 2020 03:04
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Bukowski book, pretty sure prose. There's a section in the book where he's at some woman's house and she has a couple birds in a cage and he opens the door to the cage and opens the window, one of them flies out immediately and the other one spends some time thinking about it. Any idea which of his books this is from? If you can quote that section that would be even better. Thanks! E: Post Office regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Mar 8, 2020 |
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Mar 8, 2020 06:17
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I read a quote back in the 80s or early 90s. I thought it was from Pat Conroy's _The Great Santini_ but was unable to find it in there. Could also be by Jimmy Buffett or Dan Jenkins or just maybe John Updike? Anyways here's the scenario: A high school basketball coach is talking to his team at practice or just before a game. He talks about how he used to be a boxer (possibly in the army), and really good at the amateur level. Then he fought a guy who knocked him out in the first round. That guy moved up to the golden gloves boxing level and got beaten quickly by a third guy. The third guy went professional and lost his first ten bouts. The coach finishes by saying something like "it's not the size of the mountain, it's the size of the mountains around you." Driving me nuts, would appreciate any help.
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Time to add some good tracks as a big gently caress you to everyone  e: Oh heck my office-mate is off somewhere today so I can actually tune in without disturbing anyone!
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Okay, I am sure this is one weirdly specific Google away, but I really suck at googling these things, so here goes: It's a book set in a future UK where there's some sort of trade embargo/war. So food and clothes and shoes and all that necessary stuff eventually spirals in cost or becomes almost impossible to obtain. The main character is a boy, I am pretty sure he has two sisters (the younger sister is named Ellen). Anyway. Main characters dad is a lunatic prepper who stocks up for his family, and the plot of the book revolves around the fact they're suddenly the most resource rich house in town while everyone around them becomes increasingly desperate. Some plot points I remember: - the kids find a bunch of clothes in their house that don't fit any of them, but they realise it's to keep the younger sister clothed as she grows, implying the dad expects the embargo to go on for a long time. - the dad cutting a deal with a butcher and trading winter shoes for a freezer full of meat - the town becoming aware that while they're all going hungry, the main characters family doesn't seem to be losing much weight or looking as thin-faced like the rest of them - the main character watching an ad on TV about people hoarding food and resources in their homes (like their family). - the main character volunteers for meals on wheels and some being resentful old people are getting a steady supply of food while a characters pregnant wife couldn't - main character giving some tins of food to somebody who needed it and eventually giving his dad hundreds of pounds from his bank account because that's what the tins were worth - main character growing a conscious and deciding he couldn't live with himself, so he engineered a heist of his parents food stash In light of recent events I've had a hankering to re-read it. Also to show my friends that this depressing rubbish has existed for a long while. I have a feeling it was written in the 80s or 90s.
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Mar 12, 2020 09:53
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Sounds like Noah's Castle by John Rowe Townsend.
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Runcible Cat posted:Sounds like Noah's Castle by John Rowe Townsend. Looking at the reviews, that is most likely it. Thanks!
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