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Apparatchik Magnet posted:I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means. Young, ignorant, and generally physically and psychologically repulsive goons probably don’t have a good grasp of normal human sexuality today, in the recent past, and in both their own and similar cultures. Hi welcome to Something Awful dot com. Please back to the r/libertarian subreddit or whatever other pit you crawled out of with this hot take.
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Doctor Jeep posted:i think it's because his novels and series can be separated by a thousand years so it's conceivable that the studium could become a university in that kind of timeframe or even that it's not the same studium that was mentioned before but something new which kept the name There's a Parker wikia that tries to document how all the books fit together and what the timeframe is. If they are all meant to be in one world, it's kind of funny how much time passes in Parkerland without the technology changing to any meaningful extent. Parker seems like the kind of guy who to believe that humanity would screw itself over multiple times in the attempt to develop better technology and always just end back up at Byzantium in the aggregate.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Hi welcome to Something Awful dot com. Please back to the r/libertarian subreddit or whatever other pit you crawled out of with this hot take. I don't think it's that hot of a take! You'd expect to find lazy, dumb, and socially maladroit people resent capitalism and seek the solace of socialism and you'd expect ugly unfuckables to resent their hotter and more emotionally mature peers getting it on and seek strangely high legal bars to shut them down out of envy, and it's no mistake that both these trends are popular here on Something Awful dot com. (USER WAS PERMABANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Ok now everyone stop responding to the troll.
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obtuse and unfunny enough to be a troll. tedious and sustained enough to be an exceptionally bad one. imagine thinking that punditry of that sort would actually work on *checks post-history* goons. goons will never learn
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Oh also I read past master and it ruled. any other Lafferty recommendations welcome wait I guess that mansions book would be good
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Apparatchik Magnet posted:seek strangely high legal bars to shut them down out of envy Are you worried about your activities being shut down, out of envy, by the legal bar of age 18
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Apparatchik Magnet posted:I don't think it's that hot of a take! You'd expect to find lazy, dumb, and socially maladroit people resent capitalism and seek the solace of socialism and you'd expect ugly unfuckables to resent their hotter and more emotionally mature peers getting it on and seek strangely high legal bars to shut them down out of envy, and it's no mistake that both these trends are popular here on Something Awful dot com. Quit fuckin kids you weirdo
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General Battuta posted:Are you worried about your activities being shut down, out of envy, by the legal bar of age 18 No, I have a charitable concern about the legal consequences being imposed on minors, doing natural things with other consenting minors, by the new Puritans. Weirdly enough, it's not often the rich white Chad or Becky who get their lives ruined over this stuff when mom or dad catches them! Elmnt80 posted:Quit fuckin kids you weirdo As a Something Awful mod your odds of projecting and being guilty of this are famously orders of magnitude higher than almost any other category of person, of course. Apparatchik Magnet fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Matt gaetz, that you?
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May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: Are there good cozy sci-fi novels? Ones with really optimistic themes and good characters doing good things?
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Optimism for the future died with the rise of Reagan and Thatcher.
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: Long Way has 2 sequels that fit as well if you haven't read them. Final book in that universe is supposed to be coming out soon as well.
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: I feel like one of the Pern books about the original settling of the planet was like that. I also have vague memories of a McAfferty series about a psychic woman who launched ships FTL between planets as her job, but I’m pretty sure that also featured a skeezy May-December romance. Women authors were doing it too, I guess. Apparatchik Magnet fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: Memory Called Empire and Desolation Called Peace are Cherryh-adjacent and ultimately optimistic
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: https://escapepod.org/2013/09/14/ep413-why-i-left-harrys-all-night-hamburgers/ The Callahans Crosstime Saloon stories probably counted as comfy when written but wouldn't now.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:https://escapepod.org/2013/09/14/ep413-why-i-left-harrys-all-night-hamburgers/ I got real disappointed in the series after the Lady books and when I tried to go back they all gave me the same creepy feeling. The second half of Deathkiller and Night of Power have ensured that I will never pick up another Spider Robinson book again.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Are there good cozy sci-fi novels? Ones with really optimistic themes and good characters doing good things? Maybe Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict novels (space archeology/ detective stories). Also try Brian Stableford's "Emortality" series, which is about life extension and pretty optimistic about the future of humanity. Hobnob fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Are there good cozy sci-fi novels? Ones with really optimistic themes and good characters doing good things? Winter's Orbit is sweet. It's very much a traditional romance with sf trappings but if that's your jam, it's fine comfort food.
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: The Greatship books feel really cozy to me personally but I'm a big dumb object fetishist.
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Oh hey, 40 new posts in the SFF thread, I wonder what’s happeni StrixNebulosa posted:Are there good cozy sci-fi novels? Ones with really optimistic themes and good characters doing good things? The Risen Empire/Killing of Worlds is pretty cozy IMO. Not 100% optimistic and upbeat all the time but neither is Murderbot. Lots of competent people doing competent things...in space! If you like Sanderson and precocious quippy teens then check out Skyward.
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pseudorandom name posted:Yeah, I can't imagine why a book about time travel and destiny manipulation would need to remind you of details in the first book that you read four years ago. There are much much better ways of doing it and being a sci fi and fantasy nerd I've read far far longer series that literally didn't stop the action occuring for the character to reminisce about a main plot point. Plot points in fact that if you can't actually remember happened, then you shouldn't be reading the third book as nothing would be making sense. It's like watching Return of the Jedi and suddenly someone stops in the middle of the Ewoks to say "hey remember when you found out Darth Vader was your Dad and cut off your hand", and then everything just carries on as before, and then round a campfire someone thinks really hard about that time the Death Star got blown up and how it happened and why. It's just clumsy and I really really enjoyed the other two books immensely. Also the second book didn't do it at all. It almost feels like a runaway editor fired off some kind of exposition macro. Oh God. I just caught up with everything else. Interesting (not really) take on how laws protecting the young are just, you know, oppressing them! There are well established Romeo and Juliet clauses to stop 15 year olds sleeping together being prosecuted. Sorry guy, still creepy for older people to sleep with non-adults. ClydeFrog fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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The age thing was absolutely about groupies, allowability, and opportunity. And cons. It's grooming through words. Sorry to bring it up again.
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artism posted:Oh also I read past master and it ruled. any other Lafferty recommendations welcome Any of his short story collections will see you right. I'm also possibly most fond of Space Chantey, at least today. Or maybe Arrive at Easterwine; the more Epiktistes the better.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The Callahans Crosstime Saloon stories probably counted as comfy when written but wouldn't now. they're just full of puns! ...and sexual harassment!
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Yea, they did not age well. I enjoyed em for what they were (which was a product of the times) but boy howdy you gotta take a step back and realize how hosed up it was for a girl to be a fan of sci fi back then.
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: It wasn't my cup of tea but it was many other people's: Tillie Walden's graphic novel On a Sunbeam, which is free online: https://www.onasunbeam.com/ And this probably doesn't quite fit your definition - there's some dark stuff in there about child abuse that maybe I flitted past when I was younger - but The Golden Globe by John Varley is a really fun jaunt across the solar system with a chatty, amiable first-person narrator who's half stage actor and half conman, and I really love it.
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Waking up to lots of recs is my favorite, thank you!!! - Memory Called Empire: on my kindle already, I need to start reading it! - Callahans: I read the original omnibus when I was a teenager and enjoyed it but now I'm not sure I could revisit it for those exact reasons. - Alex Benedict: hey, I might be able to read these if I get 'em as ebooks, as ebooks won't have the same problems I had with them. Warning: if you inherit a bunch of books from your uncle, they might be too associated with him to read, as you tear up just looking at some of the volumes. - Brian Stableford: I LOVE this author, he does weird and wild things and sometimes his writing is dry, and sometimes it isn't. Thanks for the reminder to keep reading him! - Winter's Orbit: I somehow missed this one entirely? Ooh, romantic space opera. I enjoy light n' fluffy things, in fact that's exactly what I'm asking for! - Greatship: uh, is this the Marrow by Robert Reed? What book is this! - Scott Westerfeld: huh, I didn't know he wrote adult books. I'll check these out! - I don't like Sanderson or teenagers, so that's a dud, sorry! - On A Sunbeam: eyyy something free to look at, thanks! - Huh. The Golden Globe is in my uncle's collection and I don't have any emotions when I pick it up, so I might be clear to just read it. Thanks! Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Yea, they did not age well. I'm 29 now and looking for women-friendly fantasy/sci-fi has been a ride my entire life. You'd think reading the women-authored sci-fi would be a haven but some authors (Jo Clayton) love to use writing to examine what rape does to a person and so on, and that's, hm! Valuable, yes, but jarring when you're trying to read sci-fi without sexual assault in it.
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I am permabanned poster Apparatchik Magnet. i first started reading the Science Fiction & Fantasy Megathread when my girlfriend was about 12. by the time she was 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "Age of consent" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "My boredom and bemusement with those emotional irrational women is at this point shared by quite a few people who have posted" and "I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing Chris Hansen in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on permanent house arrest. i always wondered what the kind of "I'm really just concerned for 15 year olds having sex with each other" style of advocating for ephobophilia was all about; i think it's my unconscious leaking in to my conscious, what jungian theory considered to be - and isn't it funny that 'jung' kind of sounds like '''young?''' i would advise all people who "get" libertarianism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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General Battuta posted:I am permabanned poster Apparatchik Magnet. i first started reading the Science Fiction & Fantasy Megathread when my girlfriend was about 12. by the time she was 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "Age of consent" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "My boredom and bemusement with those emotional irrational women is at this point shared by quite a few people who have posted" and "I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing Chris Hansen in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on permanent house arrest. i always wondered what the kind of "I'm really just concerned for 15 year olds having sex with each other" style of advocating for ephobophilia was all about; i think it's my unconscious leaking in to my conscious, what jungian theory considered to be - and isn't it funny that 'jung' kind of sounds like '''young?''' i would advise all people who "get" libertarianism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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Are you a Shivan superjuggernaught named Naruto
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Weird that guy registered in 2019 but took until 2021 to go fully insane.
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General Battuta posted:I am permabanned poster Apparatchik Magnet. i first started reading the Science Fiction & Fantasy Megathread when my girlfriend was about 12. by the time she was 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "Age of consent" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "My boredom and bemusement with those emotional irrational women is at this point shared by quite a few people who have posted" and "I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing Chris Hansen in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on permanent house arrest. i always wondered what the kind of "I'm really just concerned for 15 year olds having sex with each other" style of advocating for ephobophilia was all about; i think it's my unconscious leaking in to my conscious, what jungian theory considered to be - and isn't it funny that 'jung' kind of sounds like '''young?''' i would advise all people who "get" libertarianism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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General Battuta posted:I am permabanned poster Apparatchik Magnet. i first started reading the Science Fiction & Fantasy Megathread when my girlfriend was about 12. by the time she was 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "Age of consent" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "My boredom and bemusement with those emotional irrational women is at this point shared by quite a few people who have posted" and "I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing Chris Hansen in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on permanent house arrest. i always wondered what the kind of "I'm really just concerned for 15 year olds having sex with each other" style of advocating for ephobophilia was all about; i think it's my unconscious leaking in to my conscious, what jungian theory considered to be - and isn't it funny that 'jung' kind of sounds like '''young?''' i would advise all people who "get" libertarianism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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StrixNebulosa posted:
This is ironically a very apropos thing to associate with the Alex Benedict novels
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freebooter posted:It wasn't my cup of tea but it was many other people's: Tillie Walden's graphic novel On a Sunbeam, which is free online: https://www.onasunbeam.com/ This reminds me of Colin Greenland's _Harm's Way_ which is a great little gaslamp space opera. Not quite SF but a great story well executed. Greenland is Susanna Clarke's significant other.
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General Battuta posted:I am permabanned poster Apparatchik Magnet. i first started reading the Science Fiction & Fantasy Megathread when my girlfriend was about 12. by the time she was 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "Age of consent" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "My boredom and bemusement with those emotional irrational women is at this point shared by quite a few people who have posted" and "I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing Chris Hansen in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on permanent house arrest. i always wondered what the kind of "I'm really just concerned for 15 year olds having sex with each other" style of advocating for ephobophilia was all about; i think it's my unconscious leaking in to my conscious, what jungian theory considered to be - and isn't it funny that 'jung' kind of sounds like '''young?''' i would advise all people who "get" libertarianism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace. This is amazing and I wish we'd had it in time to make that the lepers colony entry Anyway yeah sorry I didn't catch that quickly last night, I was at the emergency vet with my dog (he's fine now) and didn't have access to buttons. Thankfully Jeffy did the needful. Since nobody else is gonna top Battuta's comment let's just let that discussion end with a thunderclap and get back to book talk.
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finally got rid of 'em, god bless. ever thus to an-cap pedophiles. lmao edit: anyway bout to start in on this uber_stoat fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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uber_stoat posted:finally got rid of 'em, god bless. ever thus to an-cap pedophiles. Just googled this and sounds super cool. Please let me know how it reads.
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Ccs posted:Anyone read this and what did you think? I haven't read any Witcher but I wasn't a fan of the tv show. I can't speak for the quality of the English translation, though; haven't read that.
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