Uptime Sinclair posted:

hell yeah ground floor

haveblue posted:

sax stared at the mars rock. He considered examining the mars pebble next to the mars rock, but then he didn't. Instead, he examined the boulder. He nodded. ann walked over, and said something bitchy. sax chuckled, then sighed. "ann," he said, "please drive away." ann made a light from her suit and then she drove away.

sax stared at the sand. He reflected that the best rocks were the rocks that were so old. And that what this rock was. Where would he look for mars rocks next?

"Well, sax!" harrumphed michel. "Perhaps now you see that the people are not rocks?" sax nodded. The rock was so old. That night, he thought about the mars rock. He used an instrument that made the rock seem less old, but even then, it was still so old. sax was immortal and wise, but still he didn't want to leave, because it would be better to understand the rock. But the rock was so old.

phyllis drove over. "sax!" said phyllis. If you don't understand, there will be a space murder, and maybe a space capitalism!" sax was appalled. "I must understand the mars rock," he said. He sighed.

The next day, arkady bragged: "I will win the mars war! I am the best at winning the mars war!" sax sighed. But then sax saw what he would do: instead of examining the mars rock to the left, he would drive further. arkady was so surprised. "But... but mars is supposed to be so empty!" But sax was very smart. He examined the rock again, and in a way that was so smart.

"NOOOOO," shouted frank. sax had made the best discovery. He had found the best mars rock. john congratulated him, and ann wanted to have sex with him eventually. "Well," thought sax, "I will have sex with her. this is, after all... RED MARS."

PCjr sidecar posted:

yes that’s the one

the rest of the novels are good (I haven’t read inversions)

Amethyst posted:

good post title glorgnole

Achmed Jones posted:

he also makes jambalaya

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Can we not get the thread gassed for anime again?

Uptime Sinclair posted:

man. raised by wolves ep 2 is cool af

Uptime Sinclair posted:

it does lose something by trying to hew to ridley scott sci fi canon

indigi posted:

it represents cum

Jonny 290 posted:

lol the first aeon flux i downloaded was the 3d version so it's left and right frames. anyways

The Fool posted:

is fantasy garbage allowed here or is it only for space nerds

Corla Plankun posted:

if im reading a book i will simply close that book

SmokaDustbowl posted:

water aliens suck the worst because how do you even invent fire or discover electricity underwater

SmokaDustbowl posted:

sent the yossmac

Beamed posted:

is legend of the galactic heroes good? im looking for some big sprawling epic to throw on the tv. hopefully something character driven and poo poo that's Not Bad.

indigi posted:

it's very very good as a series of action set pieces

as a narrative it's quite garbaggio

echinopsis posted:

anyone here watching “raised by wolves”? the 2020 sci fi show? it’s an hbo thing

i’ve never seen anything quite like it. it’s like real sci fi maybe

it’s kinda cool and the necromancer is badass when she’s weaponised

Chris Knight posted:

seen the Oldman version at least twice and loved it. this is my first time through the TV version, which makes it funny to remember some of the movies plot points and then sit there waiting for them lol. Smileys people seems to have more going on.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

fine I guess you caught me. viggo mortensen doesn't have a dick they used cgi

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

remember when comedies had an obligatory boobs scene

remember when hollywood regularly made comedies

Jonny 290 posted:

i absolutely would watch DUNE!

Shaggar posted:

red mars is still one of the most boring things ive ever read and i cannot fathom attempting to read anything else ksr has written

SmokaDustbowl posted:

there's big money poo poo these dyas that doesn't even look half as good as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsBoZ6dxL8E

SmokaDustbowl posted:

when Sagebrush jumps into a thread

NoneMoreNegative posted:

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Carthag Tuek posted:

if you havent read this, its a quick read and its fantastic:

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

pointsofdata posted:

I was asking for examples of that specific thing, not suggesting it doesn't exist

echinopsis posted:

it was.. a joke

Sagebrush posted:

I would like to get smoka's opinions on the scientific concepts in Peter Watts novels

mediaphage posted:

i didn’t say that the author is racist. not intentionally anyway. but i think refusing to even entertain the idea because you think that it’s just a character so it’s fine is too dismissive. and there are poc who have read it and found it problematic too, so i think it’s worth bringing up. clearly you liked the book and this bugs you.

"this guy from the author's forum posted:

YOUR BOY IS A RACIST
Alakazar - Tue, 06/04/2019 - 03:18

Hey everyone!

Just finished the Mars trilogy. Can your boy stop punctuating every chapter with a stereotype about Arabs?

As an arab myself, I'm tired of every white person (wherever they stands on the political spectrum) giving their unsollicited two cents about my people.

I'm equally irritated at both positive stereotypes (ahah the arabs seem like savages but once you get to know them you might be surprised) to negative ones (ahah the women staying in the kitchen ohlala...). It doesn't produce any kind of relfexion or observation. It's just sport for white people. I say that because for every arab or POC of color who intervenes on a forum to say what I just said there is a torrent of negative reactions from white ppl getting irritated at any mention of racism. So at the end of the day, by doing this, your boy just created a bone for racist dogs to chew at at the expense of arabs.

This, in itself, is a form of cultural imperialism. Please tell you boy to shut the F up. Thanks