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Kirk posted:remember how the year of hell (despite it's lame duck ending) was going to be an entire season long and finally, FINALLY bring in the idea that should have been the basis for the show all along, where a ship is constantly running low on supplies and fighting for scraps of survival yo did you seriously watch this much voyager to know all this crap? i gave up after season 1.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 23:41 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:45 |
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was there ever a barclay episode that wasn't loving terrible? i can't think of one.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 23:51 |
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Kirk posted:uh all of them idk man usually you're pretty spot on with your trek assessments but i gotta disagree with you here
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 23:52 |
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bout to start readin iain m. banks - use of weapons i heard this poo poo is good. is it good?
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 23:29 |
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qirex posted:I like his stuff a lot because a lot of the traditional sci-fi cliches [FTL travel, immortality, AI, teleportation] are just an afterthought and a most of his aliens are really alien. Use of Weapons is kinda heavy but if you like it you'll like the other Culture books. i tend toward liking pretty heavy/hard sci-fi stuff, so i'm looking forward to this book a lot. it'll be a nice change of pace after the terry pratchett book i just read. of course, i'm also concurrently reading a biography of peter the great, so w/e
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 23:36 |
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some of robert sawyer's stuff is p good too if you like hard sci-fi also larry niven fucken owns
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2011 01:03 |
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FMguru posted:niven is fun because of the sixties-ness of it. drugs and free love and dolphins and psychic powers and dwi libertarianism! i think you're confusing larry niven with robert heinlein
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2011 01:25 |
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FMguru posted:no, it's in niven too. which books? i don't remember anything like that from having read the mote in gods eye and the ringworld books. p much all his stuff anyone gives a poo poo about was written after 1970 and definitely reads like it
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2011 01:35 |
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FMguru posted:sex: ringworld and the sequels made a big deal out of explicit interspecies sex games ("rishathra"), louis wu was always getting his bone on, and so on. nudity was a big thing, too. i guess i just never thought of it as being "60s" at all, at least not to the same degree as heinlein. vv
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2011 02:28 |
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Amethyst posted:
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2011 04:10 |
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kirk i am also about to start reading player of games perhaps we could compare notes
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2011 18:45 |
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Coffee Quack posted:im tempted to pick up a kindle I'm just not sure how different it will be to use and read than books/manuals in all the little ways you don't think about. i find that the kindle is really awesome for reading fiction and other stuff that you generally just read straight through. as far as manuals and computer reference books and stuff like that, i still prefer hardcopies, although it's not difficult to set bookmarks in the kindle for stuff that you page back to frequently. it's definitely way more pleasurable for me to read the kindle than a cheap paperback, though.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 16:38 |
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i bought that chris foss book, will make a report on how awesome all the pictures of giant spaceships and poo poo are when it shows up tomorrow
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2011 00:04 |
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got the chris foss book today. it's loving beautiful. here are some lovely cell phone pics of random pages. seriously this poo poo is like $20 on amazon right now; if you don't buy this you're probably dumb.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2011 00:40 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:45 |
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ahhh spiders posted:lol looks like a preorder bonus for some computer game look at how wrong you are
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