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i just couldn't get into baxter and i have no clue why. his writing's good and he does decent high-concept stuff it just doesn't click
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try vacuum diagrams, I struggle with his full books but its a good anthology
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Nov 8, 2015 00:24
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hey hey hey read more stugatsky brothers. the dead mountaineers inn is excellent
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holy poo poo fargo "I'm gunna stick my whole thumb up your rear end later" "ACES!"
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SmokaDustbowl posted:holy poo poo fargo I peed my pants at that delivery
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Nov 8, 2015 04:18
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so i finally saw the martian. good stuff. you could see ridley scott's space aesthetic in full splendour. beautiful sharp visuals, a touch of claustrophobic helmet-cam shots, and a real sense of desolation on a desolate planet. of course matt damon loving killed it as well; hard to imagine any other actor in that role at the end when they're lauching the ares 5 it looked like a falcon heavy which i thought was a nice touch, even though that doesn't reeeaalllllyyy have enough power for a full mars direct style mission
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Nov 8, 2015 04:42
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"Finished" Luna: New Moon - is my kindle book missing the closing chapters or have I just been ruthlessly Stephenson'd? 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:"Finished" Luna: New Moon - is my kindle book missing the closing chapters or have I just been ruthlessly Stephenson'd? last sentence in the hardback is "A second pair of helmet beams strike out and fix him in a pool of light, a third: Lousika and Abena have arrived, but he walks ahead of them, down the dead river bed between the orixas, down to where the rescuers are waiting."
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Nov 8, 2015 06:21
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i rewatched one of my all time favorite scifi movies tonight and it was still really good so everybody else should also watch rare birds
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Nov 8, 2015 08:14
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just watched the new ep of ash vs evil dead and god i love this stupid show
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Trig Discipline posted:including, iirc, literal grandfather loving wasnt this a niven story
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ol qwerty bastard posted:so i finally saw the martian. good stuff. you could see ridley scott's space aesthetic in full splendour. beautiful sharp visuals, a touch of claustrophobic helmet-cam shots, and a real sense of desolation on a desolate planet. agree, I had a pretty good time with this film
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Nov 8, 2015 11:47
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its weird how margaret atwood's author photos always make her look like a sweet kind-hearted old lady
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pseudorandom name posted:its weird how margaret atwood's author photos always make her look like a sweet kind-hearted old lady why is that weird atwood is the mathematical inverse of ayn rand
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Nov 8, 2015 12:29
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Nov 8, 2015 12:49
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Improbable Lobster posted:hey ehhh, not really my cup of tea i read the roadside picnic during summer and it was really boring even for a soviet novel is princess of mars entertaining?
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Nov 8, 2015 14:48
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you're a philistine blindsight chat: good god, siri, you're a sperg. speaking as a potential sperg and all.
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Nov 8, 2015 15:18
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oh and speaking of the martian i thought this was a brilliant choice of music for the "picking up the rtg" scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8 it's the nice little touches like this that really make a movie shine
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Nov 8, 2015 15:27
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ugh everything I've heard about The Martian makes it sound like the screenplay was written by a gently caress YA SCIENCE! group on Facebook
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Hogge Wild posted:ehhh, not really my cup of tea dead mountaineers inn is also really funny
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Nov 8, 2015 16:50
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Improbable Lobster posted:dead mountaineers inn is also really funny i've heard about that one before there's a soviet estonian movie made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4QGecvBWsY
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Nov 8, 2015 16:56
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Hogge Wild posted:ehhh, not really my cup of tea yeah it didn't do much for me either. interesting idea, but not told in a way that really brought me in
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Nov 8, 2015 19:43
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Internaut! posted:ugh it smacks a little of that, but matt Damon makes it more endearing than insufferable
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Nov 8, 2015 19:55
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ol qwerty bastard posted:oh and speaking of the martian i thought this was a brilliant choice of music for the "picking up the rtg" scene "I've been through Johansson's complete music collection and this is the least disco track I could find"
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Nov 8, 2015 20:21
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Trig Discipline posted:interesting idea, but not told in a way that really brought me in This is the biggest problem I have with scifi novels. Many scifi authors are ideas men, and you can't make a novel that's just based around an idea. You need interesting plot and characters for a good novel. Though you can make good short stories about just ideas eg. I have no mouth and I must scream.
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Nov 8, 2015 20:26
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you might've just read a poo poo translation, tbh. translating russian into english is p. hard
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Hogge Wild posted:i've heard about that one before neato
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painted bird posted:you might've just read a poo poo translation, tbh. translating russian into english is p. hard yeah maybe i didn't hate it, though, just wasn't as crazy about it as a lot of people clearly are.
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im surprised you don't see more partnerships between authors, especially in somethibg like SciFi where a good ideas guy and a good character guy would probably work really well together
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Nov 8, 2015 21:23
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larry niven and jerry pournell arthur clarke and gentry lee i could go on...
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James S.A. Corey is the pseudonym for a writing duo, unsurprisingly they're also trash.
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Nov 8, 2015 21:29
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Moist von Lipwig posted:im surprised you don't see more partnerships between authors, especially in somethibg like SciFi where a good ideas guy and a good character guy would probably work really well together ah much like niven and pournell writing Liberals are Bad but Space Rockets Are Good or Brian Herbert and Kevin J.Anderson present A Hot Pile of Wet poo poo
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pseudorandom name posted:James S.A. Corey is the pseudonym for a writing duo, unsurprisingly they're also trash. what would you expect from James Something Awful Corey
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there's two english translations of roadside picnic floating around, the first one from the 70's is kind of terrible (it mixes up the numbers thirteen and thirty in a few places which fucks up some of the timeline) and is the one you can find on websites and in big pirate ebook collections. the newer one that was published in 2012 is so much better that it's kind of absurd basically if you read roadside picnic before 2012 and didn't like it, you should try it again with the new translation
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Nov 8, 2015 21:42
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poo poo is there even a decent sci fi TV show these days? last one I saw was that awful V reboot
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Nov 8, 2015 21:48
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Heresiarch posted:there's two english translations of roadside picnic floating around, the first one from the 70's is kind of terrible (it mixes up the numbers thirteen and thirty in a few places which fucks up some of the timeline) and is the one you can find on websites and in big pirate ebook collections. the newer one that was published in 2012 is so much better that it's kind of absurd yeah, it's good
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Nov 8, 2015 21:49
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Internaut! posted:poo poo is there even a decent sci fi TV show these days? last one I saw was that awful V reboot person of interest mr robot
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Nov 8, 2015 21:49
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why isn't there a series about the laundry files
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Nov 8, 2015 21:52
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Heresiarch posted:there's two english translations of roadside picnic floating around, the first one from the 70's is kind of terrible (it mixes up the numbers thirteen and thirty in a few places which fucks up some of the timeline) and is the one you can find on websites and in big pirate ebook collections. the newer one that was published in 2012 is so much better that it's kind of absurd i read the 70's translation, it was obviously rough as hell, and i still really enjoyed it. i need to go get the re-translated version
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Trig Discipline posted:just watched the new ep of ash vs evil dead and god i love this stupid show yeah I'm diggin it too. it's nice to have something silly to watch
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