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we should make a big list of yospos-approved sci-fi authors -Frank Herbert -Arthur C. Clarke (obvs) -Isaac Asimov (same) -John Brunner -Kim Stanley Robinson -Iain M. Banks -Alastair Reynolds -Peter Watts -Philip K. Dick -
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i'm the hairless cat that thufir hawat has to milk for the antidote to the poison    / 
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ol qwerty bastard posted:we should make a big list of yospos-approved sci-fi authors the foundation series is awesome if someone hasn't read it yet. plus the first two books were written before computers were really a thing so its kind of jarring to read a description of the future where computers don't do all the heavy lifting. in the third book onwards he corrects this by implementing them into the setting and i have to admit it loses some of its charm. this is also true of dune except they never incorporate computers until the last book
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Also I thought Asimov only wrote the first three foundation books with the last one being about the mule? also wrong thread!!!!! MORE CURLY FRIES fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jul 30, 2013 |
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Jul 30, 2013 21:51
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he wrote a lot more than three but the rest are nowhere near as good as the first and some are outright bad
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Jul 30, 2013 21:54
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I saw some others but they looked like fan fiction ones or something. The first three are good though. Flying around on nuke powered rocket ships
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Jul 30, 2013 21:55
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hubris.height posted:the foundation series is awesome if someone hasn't read it yet. plus the first two books were written before computers were really a thing so its kind of jarring to read a description of the future where computers don't do all the heavy lifting. in the third book onwards he corrects this by implementing them into the setting and i have to admit it loses some of its charm. important do not read spoilers for the foundation trilogy before reading the first book holds up okay but the second and third really don't work as well after you know what's going to happen haveblue posted:he wrote a lot more than three but the rest are nowhere near as good as the first and some are outright bad yeah the first three were written in like the late 40s or something, and the later ones were picked up after like 30 years and he wanted to make some easy dough
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ol qwerty bastard posted:we should make a big list of yospos-approved sci-fi authors Bester maybe scalzi? stross?
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lorf if your list doesn't include lois mcmaster bujold or ursula leguin
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Jul 30, 2013 22:01
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MORE CURLY FRIES posted:There's a lot of dune that freaked me out as a kid i'm sure the producers or studo execs explained to david that no no unlike the book we can't have the floating fat man preparing to/finishing up raping a twinkslave in each of his scenes you're going to have to think of something else
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Jul 30, 2013 22:27
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pacific rim is a very good summer movie, definitely worth seeing in the theatre also found out they're doing another godzilla movie in 2014 apparently? i hope it's good but not gonna get excited or anything
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Jul 30, 2013 22:27
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Cold on a Cob posted:pacific rim is a very good summer movie, definitely worth seeing in the theatre they haven't answered the important question as to if matthew broderick will be starring in it
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Jul 30, 2013 22:33
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raruler posted:they haven't answered the important question as to if matthew broderick will be starring in it i really loved that movie as an eight year old what a piece of poo poo that was
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Jul 30, 2013 22:36
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wow so apparently godzilla 1998 was a financial success how in the gently caress?
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Jul 30, 2013 22:39
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Cold on a Cob posted:wow so apparently godzilla 1998 was a financial success reminder: grown ups 2 has made far more money at the box office than pacific rim burn and salt, etc.
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Jul 30, 2013 22:40
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Cold on a Cob posted:wow so apparently godzilla 1998 was a financial success it was the next big blockbuster from the guy who did independence day, he still had some cred to burn
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Jul 30, 2013 22:42
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hubris.height posted:the foundation series is awesome if someone hasn't read it yet. plus the first two books were written before computers were really a thing so its kind of jarring to read a description of the future where computers don't do all the heavy lifting. in the third book onwards he corrects this by implementing them into the setting and i have to admit it loses some of its charm. I, Robot is kind of jarring because of that one story where advanced futuristic robotic engineers on Mercury apparently have no idea what an infinite loop is
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Jul 30, 2013 23:23
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have you ever tried to iterate over a variable on weed?
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Jul 30, 2013 23:43
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i wrote a paper for a class where i postulated that laura palmer died for our sins
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Jul 31, 2013 00:20
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TOOT BOOT posted:how come all the good greg egan books arent on kindle http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Ebooks.html
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Jul 31, 2013 00:21
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I dont care if I'm coming across as an are freedoms goon but always look for ebooks on other sites than amazon - most you can get straight from the author at a lower price and without DRM and stuff
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Jul 31, 2013 00:25
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MORE CURLY FRIES posted:There's a lot of dune that freaked me out as a kid this stuck me throughout my childhood and well into my formative years. i think i must have blocked out the remainder of the movie cause i only recently rewatched it and realized where that unease came from.
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Jul 31, 2013 00:57
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qntm posted:I, Robot is kind of jarring because of that one story where advanced futuristic robotic engineers on Mercury apparently have no idea what an infinite loop is today we have computers not a fraction as powerful as a "positronic brain" is supposed to be and understand software engineering very well and still get weird freezes and crashes and stuff
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Jul 31, 2013 01:00
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MindSet posted:Is LynchDune worth watching? I saw the scifi channel miniseries a looong time ago and remember thinking it was ok for a low budget production. Enjoyed the books though, stopped at god emperor like everyone recommends. no. it's a bad adaptation and a bad production. it's only worth it for the kitch value there is a reason lynch refuses to talk about it even today
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Jul 31, 2013 02:04
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watch chronicles of riddick instead, it is better than dune
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Jul 31, 2013 02:54
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ol qwerty bastard posted:watch chronicles of riddick instead, it is better than dune also v. open palm slammable, another point in its favor
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Jul 31, 2013 04:09
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if u close palm slap isn't that just a punch ?
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Jul 31, 2013 04:24
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awwww yissssss http://www.avclub.com/articles/jonathan-frakes-talks-william-riker-playing-trombo,100891/1/
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Jul 31, 2013 04:28
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quote:My next-door neighbor at the time was a guy named Paul Fox, who produced R.E.M., 10,000 Maniacs, Jakob Dylan, Björk, and Phish. And the guys from Phish were huge Trekkers, and they used to come to his house to rehearse. Actually, I think they may have rehearsed in my guest house! This was up in Lookout Mountain, in L.A. But they got wind that I played trombone, and they didn’t know I wasn’t that good, but they asked me to the studio, so I came out to the studio to play trombone on Hoist. I played some music; I didn’t do it so well, but all of the outtakes from my trombone playing became a song called “Riker’s Mailbox,” because at the time, my mailbox vaguely looked like a cow, with black and white spots, only this one had been beaten up many times by cars running into it and people running by and smacking it. So my outtakes were named after the mutilated cow mailbox that was the identification of the front of our house, the Hoist album went platinum, and, as a result, I am the proud keeper of a platinum record. So there you go. owns
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Cold on a Cob posted:if u close palm slap isn't that just a punch ? Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jul 31, 2013 |
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Jul 31, 2013 04:46
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Amethyst posted:no. it's a bad adaptation and a bad production. it's only worth it for the kitch value ffs i find myself agreeing with blue stymie somebody pls put a bullet in the back of my head
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Jul 31, 2013 04:59
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Amethyst posted:kitch value
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ATREIDES IS SPILLING THE BONG
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cram a stoneburner up me arse
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buttcoinian jihad
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a bitcoin mine.
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