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In the movie they all take turns spitting in the pot. That, as gross as it is, explains a bit.
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Alhazred posted:On Arrakis the conditions are so harsh that the fremen have to recycle their own body fluids. But they still have water enough to brew coffee. Well you loving HAVE to have coffee or life would be completely unbearable.
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Alhazred posted:On Arrakis the conditions are so harsh that the fremen have to recycle their own body fluids. But they still have water enough to brew coffee. In the sealed environment of the sietch which is tight enough they relax water discipline
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branedotorg posted:Has anyone read the new Anthony Ryan? Is the thief named Kvothe?
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# ? Nov 13, 2021 21:39 |
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Cardiac posted:Is the thief named Kvothe? It's more black tongue thief than name of the wind so far, with a little bit of KJ Parker's scavenger. The protagonist certainly isn't preternaturally talented at music, magic and sex like kvothe It's not ground breaking but it's enjoyable and I'll preorder the second.
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buffalo all day posted:I finally read Piranesi and wow that was unbelievable. So good and such beautiful writing. It’s amazing; easily my favorite fantasy novel to come out that year (this year? Whenever year). — Also, It is a (very pleasant!) surprise to see that other people have not only read The Long Ships, but liked it! I had always assumed it would become totally forgotten. I picked up Library of the Unwritten and The Midnight Library and pretty quickly put them both down. They aren’t bad per-se, just aggressively average and forgettable. I came into them having just finished Sally Rooney’s new book, and the contrast between imo the best prose stylist of her generation, and average fantasy stuff was just too much to handle. Up next I have one of these: Red Pill - Hari Kunzru Jonathan Lethem’s new book, can’t remember the name Empress of Forever - Max Gladstone The Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler A re-read of Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe A re-read of Too Like the Lightning (since I never read the series’ last book) - Ada Palmer Gato The Elder fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Nov 14, 2021 |
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:In the movie they all take turns spitting in the pot. That, as gross as it is, explains a bit. The fremen spits to show how much they like you...and also when they make coffee.
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Alhazred posted:The fremen spits to show how much they like you...and also when they make coffee. They like coffee too
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# ? Nov 14, 2021 14:50 |
"The fremen only expels bodily fluids in a sign of utmost respect....and also around midday during their coffee break."
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branedotorg posted:It's more black tongue thief than name of the wind so far, with a little bit of KJ Parker's scavenger. The protagonist certainly isn't preternaturally talented at music, magic and sex like kvothe Sounds interesting. Black tongue was fun, but previous work by Ryan was so so for me.
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ryan's high point was blood song and after that it was all meh the new one, pariah, is good
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The original version of The Lamia and Lord Cromis is so much better than the version inside the M John Harrison Viriconium omnibus collection. For one thing, in the original version of the story the main character is not a pedophile. For another thing, the original version of The Lamia and Lord Cromis is written more vividly, with details and elaborations the newer version omits. Here's where the main character & friends enters an ancient toxic waste dump in search of the titular Lamia. Original version of The Lamia and Lord Cromis, first published in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY and then republished in M John Harrison's The Machine in Shaft Ten and other stories collection. quote:Deep in the Mash, the path wound tortuously between umber-iron bogs, albescent quicksands of aluminum and magnesium oxides, and sumps of cuprous blue or permanganate mauve fed by slow geld streams, and fringed by silver reeds. The trees were smooth-barked, yellow-ochre and burnt-orange; through their tightly woven foliage filtered a gloomy light. At their roots grew tall black grasses and great clumps of multifaceted transparent crystal, like alien fungi. The rewritten version of The Lamia and Lord Cromis in the 2005 Viriconium omnibus collection. quote:By mid-morning they had crossed the last of them and entered the marsh. On a sort of SF&F related note, started reading the Cypherpunks mailing list because something in another book reminded me about it. The Cypherpunks mailing list ran from 1992 to 1998, and a lot of privacy/crypto/uber-libertarians that later became big names posted there at some point during it's existence. For example, people from various 1980's-1990's super-hacker groups like cDc and LoD and the CCC posted there. Hackers turned US government employees at the NSA posted there. Julian Assange posted there a few times from Australia and allegedly got the idea for wikileaks from the Cypherpunks mailing list. A future domestic terrorist called Jim Bell posted there, whose manifesto "Assassination Politics". Bruce Sterling posted to the Cypherpunks mailing list alot, Neal Stephenson most definitely got all of his clever ideas from there.
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I read Revelation Space years ago and had mixed feelings about it, went on to read a bunch of Reynolds' other books and really liked them (Pushing Ice, House of Suns, most of his short fiction) and then figured I might as well go back and finish the Revelation Space trilogy. So I just finished Chasm City which it turns out isn't part of that trilogy but takes place in the same universe, and although it has all the same flaws as Revelation Space (expository dialogue, bloated writing, all the characters feeling and talking like autistics or psychopaths) I was more forgiving of them. Really enjoyed it. In fact I've read a string of clunkers across the past few months and this was the first book in a while where reading it felt enjoyable rather than a chore. I saw somebody describing Dune as "mostly vibes" the other day (as a compliment) and I think that applies to Reynolds as well, particularly the Revelation Space series. He's really, really good at imparting this atmosphere of a big frightening universe with Gothic horror vibes; a place where every human or alien you encounter is probably going to be hostile and nothing good is ever going to happen to you. Which goes hand in hand with my favourite crossover genre of sci-fi plus creepy mystery, exemplified in Chasm City by the "ghost" ship trailing the interstellar convoy which the main character eventually realises isn't a myth after all.
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Groke posted:Well you loving HAVE to have coffee or life would be completely unbearable. Engraved on silver coffee service DON'T JIHAD ME BEFORE I'VE HAD MY COFFEE Also on Dune (and Vance a few pages back), I'm just finishing a reread after watching the movie and the last Appendix has: That name immediately jumped out as an anagram, and the book title itself even has a Vance vibe to it
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freebooter posted:I read Revelation Space years ago and had mixed feelings about it, went on to read a bunch of Reynolds' other books and really liked them (Pushing Ice, House of Suns, most of his short fiction) and then figured I might as well go back and finish the Revelation Space trilogy. So I just finished Chasm City which it turns out isn't part of that trilogy but takes place in the same universe, and although it has all the same flaws as Revelation Space (expository dialogue, bloated writing, all the characters feeling and talking like autistics or psychopaths) I was more forgiving of them. Really enjoyed it. In fact I've read a string of clunkers across the past few months and this was the first book in a while where reading it felt enjoyable rather than a chore. Yeah. The trilogy sucks, but I enjoyed the vibes.
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freebooter posted:(expository dialogue, bloated writing, all the characters feeling and talking like autistics or psychopaths)
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I didn't mean that these are the same thing, I meant all his characters are either one or the other. I'm sure Mr Reynolds is a very nice man but in his early writing career he didn't seem to understand how people actually talk to each other. Every character is either Machiavelli or Basil Exposition.
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freebooter posted:I didn't mean that these are the same thing, I meant all his characters are either one or the other. I'm sure Mr Reynolds is a very nice man but in his early writing career he didn't seem to understand how people actually talk to each other. Every character is either Machiavelli or Basil Exposition. Yeah, particularly earlier on reading Reynolds was all about the spectacle and the worldbuilding, not for the people. He does get better at it, at least to the point where his characters don't actively detract from the enjoyment as he goes along and there's few people who can match him for Big Weird Space poo poo. I would also like to mention that his universe for the Revenger books would be one of the best and easiest to convert RPG settings on record. It's like he lost a bet and had to write a series based on a bunch of terms pulled from a hat - "victorian" "intersolar" "dungeon delving" - and he pulled it off in a way that left me really hungry for more.
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i always name my flagship revenger in starsector etc. pretty good name
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freebooter posted:all the characters feeling and talking like autistics let's not do this thanks freebooter posted:I didn't mean that these are the same thing, Right sure but it's still stereotyping and bad to go "[category of people] are like this" Better to focus on the character trait that bothers you specifically freebooter posted:he didn't seem to understand how people actually talk to each other. Every character is either Machiavelli or Basil Exposition. Right, like that just post like that Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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There's a very minor detail in the Hannu Rajaniemi novels about Mielikki activating 'combat autism', a kind of altered cognitive state for fighting. I always wondered what autistic people might think of this. I'm not fishing for condemnation or validation, I would just be interested to hear. I try to stay in my lane and write characters with combat depression
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Personally my experience of autism is that I would be loving garbage at combat, lmao. Being constantly inundated with a tide of sensations and stimuli, and having to actively exert cognitive resources to tune them out, seems counterproductive for getting in fights! Plus the emotional gut punch of actually hurting someone? No thank you!
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General Battuta posted:There's a very minor detail in the Hannu Rajaniemi novels about Mielikki activating 'combat autism', a kind of altered cognitive state for fighting. I always wondered what autistic people might think of this. I'm not fishing for condemnation or validation, I would just be interested to hear. Kind of like Focus in A Deepness in the Sky. Vinge never used the "A" word, but it's pretty clearly on his mind. I have autism and I rather liked how he ended the plotline with one of the Focused characters.
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We had to read The Long Ships for school (Swedish class) and I think I was the only one to actually finish the entire book. It makes me so glad to hear other people like it.
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General Battuta posted:There's a very minor detail in the Hannu Rajaniemi novels about Mielikki activating 'combat autism', a kind of altered cognitive state for fighting. I always wondered what autistic people might think of this. I'm not fishing for condemnation or validation, I would just be interested to hear.
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# ? Nov 15, 2021 19:42 |
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What about Ghost in the Shell calling the cyberbrain airplane mode "autistic mode"?
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# ? Nov 15, 2021 19:51 |
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Basil Exposition is an underrated character, as seen in my 10-part post in the CBR Rumbles forum,
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pseudorandom name posted:What about Ghost in the Shell calling the cyberbrain airplane mode "autistic mode"? Almost posted this!!!
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General Battuta posted:There's a very minor detail in the Hannu Rajaniemi novels about Mielikki activating 'combat autism', a kind of altered cognitive state for fighting. I always wondered what autistic people might think of this. I'm not fishing for condemnation or validation, I would just be interested to hear.
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Generally speaking it's probably a bad idea to use specific modern present day diagnostic terms for fictional future medical conditions.
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General Battuta posted:There's a very minor detail in the Hannu Rajaniemi novels about Mielikki activating 'combat autism', a kind of altered cognitive state for fighting. I always wondered what autistic people might think of this. I'm not fishing for condemnation or validation, I would just be interested to hear. Quorum posted:Personally my experience of autism is that I would be loving garbage at combat, lmao. Being constantly inundated with a tide of sensations and stimuli, and having to actively exert cognitive resources to tune them out, seems counterproductive for getting in fights! Plus the emotional gut punch of actually hurting someone? No thank you! Based on what I can recall of the one time I've been in a serious fight, I don't think my neurodivergence was a significant handicap (at least not relative to my lack of physical technique), and I can easily imagine an autistic person having a combat hyperfixation they can tap into – but of course, each autistic person is different, so it also wouldn't surprise me that others would find it overwhelming.
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Sinatrapod posted:Yeah, particularly earlier on reading Reynolds was all about the spectacle and the worldbuilding, not for the people. He does get better at it, at least to the point where his characters don't actively detract from the enjoyment as he goes along and there's few people who can match him for Big Weird Space poo poo. I remember reading House of Suns and feeling glad that he'd realised not every character needs to be a completely amoral rear end in a top hat; not every verbal exchange needs to be dripping with hostile contempt. Aside from being unrealistic it just gets boring!
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pseudorandom name posted:What about Ghost in the Shell calling the cyberbrain airplane mode "autistic mode"? i have a friend with autism who laughed everytime a character said it and now calls her phone's airplane mode "autistic mode" as a result so
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freebooter posted:I remember reading House of Suns and feeling glad that he'd realised not every character needs to be a completely amoral rear end in a top hat; not every verbal exchange needs to be dripping with hostile contempt. Aside from being unrealistic it just gets boring! Also you need more than one character arc.
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pseudorandom name posted:What about Ghost in the Shell calling the cyberbrain airplane mode "autistic mode"? Seeing as it is cyberpunk I guess it is likely just an aesthetic name for turning off networking features, but I like to think it implies both limits on communication, as well as a preoccupation with the internal; a different way for a cyberbrain to function whereas usually it is dependant on external communication and resources.
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Also it could just be a weird translation choice.
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secular woods sex posted:I feel like there is a subset of people who assume that autism also confers savant status in something. Combat savantism would have gotten the point across better in my opinion. https://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1222670961411084288?s=20
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I’ve not actually finished dune yet but I’m pretty sure these mentats are people trained to be autistic.
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