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Barudak posted:Someone has already written a book where the ultimate weapon is powered by loving and I plan to do zero research but feel content knowing that it unquestionably exists. Have you read the fifth and sixth Dune books?
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I maintain that Leto II's death was the perfect place to end the series both thematically and in terms of quality overall.
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Breetai posted:I maintain that Leto II's death was the perfect place to end the series both thematically and in terms of quality overall. Of course it was. Chronologically *the dull, ominous roar of Brian Herbert in the distance*
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Marsupial Ape posted:Yeah, I’ve always wanted to write a Star Trek homage that has a similar level of technology and social development…but also the FTL drives are powered by orgone energy. Very dumb, I think a challenge. "She can't take no more cap'n, I'm givin' 'er all she's got!"
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Barudak posted:Someone has already written a book where the ultimate weapon is powered by loving and I plan to do zero research but feel content knowing that it unquestionably exists. Does anime count?
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Marsupial Ape posted:How could you introduce innate horniness into your sci-fi without being, well, all the gross poo poo we've cited? I think horniness is always going to be some measure of gross, it's just up to whatever editor to try tamping down on the worst of it. Or for the furthest gone stuff to just go all the way and become erotica instead.
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Marsupial Ape posted:How could you introduce innate horniness into your sci-fi without being, well, all the gross poo poo we've cited? I mean I think Left hand of darkness did it. But the how of that is Ursula Le Guin was an exceptionally good writer. So, um be a really good writer I guess? (Also been a while since I read it but seem to remember it was more about an emotional relationship rather then anything that could be really described as horny.) (Edit: Cronenberg manages it, but as he means it to be a way of showing the disgustingness of the human body, or whatever, to the audience that also probably doesn't count.) dr_rat fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jun 23, 2022 |
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Marsupial Ape posted:Yeah, I’ve always wanted to write a Star Trek homage that has a similar level of technology and social development…but also the FTL drives are powered by orgone energy. Very dumb, I think a challenge. You're too late. Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale.
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Madurai posted:You're too late. Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale. Is it worth a read? Tolerable at all? I looked at the synopsis, which had the word "electrocoma" in it, which made me think, "huh, was this written in the 60s or 70s? This may interesting just because of the vintage". Alas, I saw that it was published in 2011.
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Marsupial Ape posted:Is it worth a read? Tolerable at all? I looked at the synopsis, which had the word "electrocoma" in it, which made me think, "huh, was this written in the 60s or 70s? This may interesting just because of the vintage". Alas, I saw that it was published in 2011. Must be a republishing date, the novel first appeared in 1983.
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EmptyVessel posted:Must be a republishing date, the novel first appeared in 1983. Ohh, that does re-contextualize it. It keeps swinging between lovely and kitschy, for me.
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Is The Iron Dream on its own worth reading or just in the context of knowing it exists and someone got owned by it
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RBA Starblade posted:Is The Iron Dream on its own worth reading or just in the context of knowing it exists and someone got owned by it I haven’t read it myself, but the very concept of “alternate-universe Hitler emigrates to America and writes fascist literature under a science fiction veil” is enough to make me want to. Like, even if it’s terrible, it has to be good for wtfery alone.
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Can someone direct me to the president of science fiction? I'm ready to cash in all of my (needless to say considerable) cachet to get them to stop their writers from using the word "crèche".
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The Moon Monster posted:Can someone direct me to the president of science fiction? I'm ready to cash in all of my (needless to say considerable) cachet to get them to stop their writers from using the word "crèche". The seniormost SF-nal person I know personally is Robert Silverberg, and though I'm not sure where he fits on the command hierarchy, I've been assured that he is The Sexiest Man Alive--so that might help.
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The Moon Monster posted:Can someone direct me to the president of science fiction? I'm ready to cash in all of my (needless to say considerable) cachet to get them to stop their writers from using the word "crèche". Are you just a giant advocate for the word “daycare” or something? The only time I ever encounter that word is when it’s one of the few rare times it’s relevant. Are you reading some really specific subgenre of Star Trek : Muppet Babies? PS someone get on the phone about Star Trek : Muppet Babies. I need some little Charlie Brown fucker playing Picard now.
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Colonel Corazon Santiago, 'Planet: A Survivalist's Guide' posted:Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort. Children not only shape our future;
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RBA Starblade posted:Is The Iron Dream on its own worth reading or just in the context of knowing it exists and someone got owned by it It's decent, worth reading beyond just the "Hitler wrote it" aspect.
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Action Jacktion posted:It's decent, worth reading beyond just the "Hitler wrote it" aspect. Isn't it a specific dunk on Heinlein?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Are you just a giant advocate for the word “daycare” or something? I feel like it's virtually every work of science fiction that proposes a non-dystopian post-nuclear family future. Children will all be brought up in French daycare, presumably something like Madeleine.
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The Moon Monster posted:I feel like it's virtually every work of science fiction that proposes a non-dystopian post-nuclear family future. Children will all be brought up in French daycare, presumably something like Madeleine. That’s how Brits say “daycare”. It’s like disliking authors using “laser” or “robot”. That’s just the word for those things. And daycare isn’t called that in French either.
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Lawman 0 posted:Isn't it a specific dunk on Heinlein? More Howard than Heinlein, as I recall. But aimed in general at the hard-right and racist tendencies within SF, of which Heinlein was definitely a part.
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I meant more like a little Geordie and Data standing next to that enormous pair of woman’s legs and disembodied voice, but yeah I’ll take that too.
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I thought about that quote from Alpha Centuari too. It reminds me when Revenge of the Sith and everyone was going "lol Younglings? what a dumb name" ignoring that its a totally acceptable generic for anything that is young, as some living things don't have children.
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Who was saying "Younglings" was dumb? Of all the critiques of those movies that's one I've never once heard before
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Me, I always thought it was dumb  I mean it kind of worked because this is some far
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Xiahou Dun posted:That’s how Brits say “daycare”. Ok then direct me to the president of the British as well. The French should stay the course.
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It's far from the worst aspect of the movie, but "youngling" is kinda... florid?
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I mean that does go with everything about the prequel Jedi. They are an ancient order of warrior wizard monks who take everything very seriously. They are baroque and formal.
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Youngling is stupid because it's a sci-fi word for a concept we already have - "children". It's as dumb as fake swear words, without the excuse of getting around censorship.
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“Youngling” is also a word we already have, attested about 800 years before sci-fi
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Youngling is stupid because it's a sci-fi word for a concept we already have - "children". It's as dumb as fake swear words, without the excuse of getting around censorship. drat, not the horrible curse of synonyms.
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Lightsaber instead of Lucentblade, loving GEORGE!!!
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Xiahou Dun posted:drat, not the horrible curse of synonyms. I think you mean Zazoonibops
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Zoran posted:“Youngling” is also a word we already have, attested about 800 years before sci-fi If we're going for old words for child, "girl" used to mean child. Gay girl was a girl and knave girl was a boy.
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It's a random detail thrown in to make the setting seem less familiar--like how nobody wore glasses (until recently)
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Barudak posted:Lightsaber instead of Lucentblade, loving GEORGE!!! Beam katanas
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Barudak posted:Lightsaber instead of Lucentblade, loving GEORGE!!! There's all that behind the scenes footage of Lucas during the filming of the prequels where he keeps calling them "laser swords."
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Beam katanas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3lh97fDVY
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