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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I realized that with all the SciFi I've read over the decades I can't remember one that meets that criteria. get plat shithead or post an email and let the plat fairy visit e: i am not the thread avatar fairy
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Maybe The Snow Queen by Vinge? That was decent I guess.
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anne mccaffrey writes women but also tends to go a bit romance novel with her scifi
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also she has awful views on gays
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fun fact: apparently a bunch of airbnb people don't bother to mark off dates as taken which makes finding one to stay at long term really annoying
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I picked up issue 28 on my way home from work today. I have all the trades. I absolutely adore Saga. Same. I'm not ashamed to say it's a comic book that's legit brought me to tears.
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I'll be honest, Waterhaul and Dickeye talking about how great Saga was really turned me away from it
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Zeitgueist posted:get plat shithead thread avatar fairy is a myth its a group of disparate folk, but i can discern who did what by their MO
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who wants to hear a great story about creepy and sad dickeye is?
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standard Le Guin rec if you haven't read her
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Small Frozen Thing posted:I'll be honest, Waterhaul and Dickeye talking about how great Saga was really turned me away from it I've deliberately never read the thread because I figured posters would find a way to ruin it. I browse bss but I'm not familiar with those guys, but I understand the instinct. That being said you should check it out if you want to read a good space opera that legit cares more about characters than pew pew fights. There's some stuff that might be triggering to people, but it's not gross about stuff. Zeitgueist posted:standard Le Guin rec if you haven't read her Nintendo Kid posted:who wants to hear a great story about creepy and sad dickeye is? i do i do
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my god this trailer is sex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFGDQotoUdg i want to gently caress this trailer
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Jagchosis posted:thread avatar fairy is a myth its a group of disparate folk, but i can discern who did what by their MO *Camera pans out to reveal Jagchosis's wall covered in printed out posts and avatars connected with string* "This isn't a lone actor, this isn't a lone actor at all!" Small Frozen Thing posted:I'll be honest, Waterhaul and Dickeye talking about how great Saga was really turned me away from it You should read it, it's really good. Zeitgueist posted:standard Le Guin rec if you haven't read her I was thinking about Left Hand of Darkness, but it's a male protagonist and non-sexed characters, which doesn't really fit.
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i'm sure iain [m] banks has had good female protagonists. read him anyway.
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Jagchosis posted:thread avatar fairy is a myth its a group of disparate folk, but i can discern who did what by their MO this is arianist heresy against the avatar fairy
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one thing boston certainly has going for it: all of the main rapid transit lines have park and ride facilities at their main endpoints
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May 14, 2015 05:42
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 check out these train tracks that i'm planning to use tomorrow
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Exclamation Marx posted:i'm sure iain [m] banks has had good female protagonists. read him anyway. I'm picking up the third book in the Culture series from the library tomorrow on my way home from work.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I'm picking up the third book in the Culture series from the library tomorrow on my way home from work. use of weapons? that's a good one
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Please recommend a good SciFi book with a legit strong female protagonist. that ursula k leguin book with the transgendered people?
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Nintendo Kid posted:who wants to hear a great story about creepy and sad dickeye is? Me! Me! I have a Dickeye story too: One time he started condescendingly explaining to me about how Garth Ennis' use of superhero rape that would make a baby that would explode out of the tough-as-nails cool guy's wife and his quest for revenge against superheroes afterwards was totally sensitive and deep and made up for the nonstop rape jokes in his works. I said he was full of poo poo, and he exploded and called me a cocksucker. Someone else posted effectively "Garth Ennis writes manly stories for manly men, and it's understandable why a woman wouldn't find that or the rape jokes appealing" I said "Yeah, pretty much that" and he responded "WELL IF YOU'D JUST SAID THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN MAYBE I WOULDN'T HAVE CALLED YOU A COCKSUCKER" before he quickly wised up and replaced it with "Nevermind."
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also.. theyre making a new Predator movie? and it is set in the Middle ages? 
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icantfindaname posted:that ursula k leguin book with the transgendered people? Male protagonist though.
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Spaceman Future! posted:also.. theyre making a new Predator movie? Please tell me it's got Arnold as an aging Conan fighting off Predators. I don't care if this is a lie, tell me that is what is going to happen.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:*Camera pans out to reveal Jagchosis's wall covered in printed out posts and avatars connected with string* i used my investigative powers to determine who all of the folk who gift avatars ITT are. i have confessions from all of them. i'm that good
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whose Dickeye GhostofJohnMuir posted:Please recommend a good SciFi book with a legit strong female protagonist. any subgenre in particular? i ain't afraid, I can think of something.
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He goes by LiterallyTheWorst now, which some mod renamed him to at some point. He's an ADTRW and BSS poster
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PupsOfWar posted:any subgenre in particular? Something that's more Hard SciFi, I'm a little tired of pulpy stuff.
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Exclamation Marx posted:
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Please tell me it's got Arnold as an aging Conan fighting off Predators. I don't care if this is a lie, tell me that is what is going to happen. not like age of conan middle ages actual honest to god middle ages like archer vs. alien
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Something that's more Hard SciFi, I'm a little tired of pulpy stuff. how familiar are you with Cherryh
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PupsOfWar posted:how familiar are you with Cherryh so feminine she had to add an H to her name to avoid scaring manchildren
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Me! Me! haha that's amazing, and lol if your go-to insult is cocksucker, it really says all you need to know about someone. also i hate garth ennis.
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PupsOfWar posted:how familiar are you with Cherryh Not at all. What's a good book of hers to start with?
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Me! Me! ok so several years back he's dating this girl goon on irc, and like they exchange pictures and poo poo. eventually at one point she happens to be away from irc for a few days (i think she was ona trip?) and he starts talking about how much he misses her (iirc they were never closer than like 300 miles away). and he lets it slip that he puts his phone with her picture on it on a pillow next to him and cuddles it as he goes to sleep every night. and when we tell her this when she's back she immediately breaks up with him and never speaks to him ever again.
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Jesus loving christ, that combined with my story is way more awful than either alone. 
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Ed Greenwood did it because half his novels were about his D&D character boning lots of hot chicks like 1/4 his age, because Ed Greenwood is an ur-grognard But but but Elminster in Hell!
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help i'm dying. on my tombstone write "killed by dickeye's failure at life"
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Not at all. What's a good book of hers to start with? read Downbelow Station bub. grit your teeth through the intro exposition andd then you're golden. also Aliette de Bodard is a lesser-known favorite authoress of mine, if you're in the mood for short fiction. Focuses predominantly on non-western + feminist perspectives in futuristic settings where pewpew laser fights are rarely depicted.
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Nintendo Kid posted:ok so several years back he's dating this girl goon on irc, and like they exchange pictures and poo poo. eventually at one point she happens to be away from irc for a few days (i think she was ona trip?) and he starts talking about how much he misses her (iirc they were never closer than like 300 miles away). lol i'll keep this in mind when reading his terrible posts
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