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haha you think i need prompting to re-read barsoom books
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Pick posted:I've never read any of those. Are they good? theyre good like a stuffed pepper. its not fancy, but it takes a lil bit of craft to get it right, and its deeply satisfying. you wouldnt wanna eat a stuffed pepper every fuckin day, but you wouldnt complain if you had something as decent as a stuffed pepper almost every day.
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ive read that verne was not at all a fan of wells's work, because he was like, “you dont even explain how anything works!!! you cant just say that it does!! that is not science!!!!!” and wells was like “lmao. hes invisible, boom. the machine goes thru time. eat my rear end”
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May 15, 2020 17:21
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hard vs soft science fiction p much never changed much from this i know i lost this fight long ago and resoundingly, but i liked it when hard and soft scifi were terms to describe whether the plot was driven by the “hard” or “soft”, ie social, sciences. hard science or soft science fiction, not hard or soft science fiction there is a ton of great scifi driven by anthropological, sociological, linguistic, or even economic themes. ursula k leguin, chip delany, octavia butler, john brunner—some of the most amazing scifi writers of the 20th century were asking questions about culture, and society, and communication. and theyre applying concepts from the social sciences at the time to explore those questions relevant to the thread topic, rokeya sakhawat hossein wrote sultana’s dream in like 1904(?) and its a rad piece of soft scifi
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