EmmyOk posted:

I guess it's not the case elsewhere but here tinker is a slur for travellers.

Runcible Cat posted:

If it's the lovely book I'm thinking of she's supposed to be a descendant of Alexander Graham Bell. "Tinker Bell" hur hur geddit geddit.

EmmyOk posted:

I guess it's not the case elsewhere but here tinker is a slur for travellers.

The Lone Badger posted:

A 'tinker' was originally someone who repaired light metalwork (cooking pans etc). Limited demand so they tended to travel.
These days the word tends to be used for someone who repairs light items as a hobby. "To tinker with something".

EmmyOk posted:

Jesus Christ that's worse than if it was a slur.

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Tunicate posted:

Tinker is an urban fantasy novel where some sort of portal opened, connecting the world to a bunch of elves and enabling magic to return to the world. Tinker is the scrappy female protagonist, who runs a salvage business and has her life interrupted by an elf prince named Wolfwind or some poo poo like that, being chased by actual wolves.

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One critical aspect of the plagues, though, was quickly refilling earth’s population. The Horvath had hidden a subtle genetic change in several of the viruses that were spread. The change had to do with female reproduction, especially in the “blonde” genetic subgroup. Women who were effected, and the spread had been very nearly one hundred percent, were subject to a “heat” cycle similar to male reproductive drive and pharmaceutical contraceptives were functionally useless. The Horvath had anticipated their plagues essentially depopulating the planet and wanted to ensure a steady supply of new human slaves.

Friendly Glatun medical AIs and doctors had stopped the plague from killing most of humanity but since most of the world’s population was infected by the orbitally distributed plagues, they were left with the problem of what was called “Johannsen’s Syndrome.” The only way to fix the global issue was a reverse plague. But not only were the ethical considerations against infecting people without their consent, to stop the Horvath plagues they’d immunized most of humanity with advanced nano-bots that stopped virtually any biological or nannite in its tracks. To undue the damage required multiple medical visits and advanced technology that, at that point, was fairly rare.

This left virtually every woman on the planet with so much as a trace of blonde gene as a baby factory. The first year after the plague, Germany had one birth for every reproductive aged female. Scandinavia at one point hit an average birth rate of 9.1, meaning that if the rate continued the average Scandinavian—Dane, Swedish and Norwegian—woman would bear nine children in her life. The teen pregnancy rate got completely out of control for about five years before education and cultural effects started to get a handle on the new reality.

It was all very well to say “be fruitful and multiply.” Johannsen’s made the situation simply insane. The nature of the plague meant that, in some cases, there were serial pregnancies meaning that more than one viable fetus was in the womb from multiple inseminations. Some women had three children in as many months.

divabot posted:

I thought this parody of John Ringo was absolutely hilarious and spot-on. It relentlessly takes the piss out of his loving terrible ideas:


There's more of this satirical Swiftian brilliance here.

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

God, do I ever wish I could forget John Ringo.

Y-Hat posted:

While we're on the topic of terrible books written by survivalists that had a thread dedicated them to in TFR, what was that book written by some guy where the book art is the Constitution burning or some poo poo? The most detailed and elaborate passages in the book were dedicated to the guns people used, and I think the author himself got an account to shitpost in the thread. It wasn't The Turner Diaries.

C.M. Kruger posted:

Going by the cover description that would probably be Unintended Consequences.

Cumslut1895 posted:

There's an amazing podcast about bad books called I Don't Even Own A Television

Alaois posted:

you could at LEAST read the first page of the thread

Cumslut1895 posted:

There's an amazing podcast about bad books called I Don't Even Own A Television

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I'm halfway through their one on Snow Crash, and it seems to be largely them complaining how the satire doesn't work, and then reading out bits of satire that they're treating as serious.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I'm halfway through their one on Snow Crash, and it seems to be largely them complaining how the satire doesn't work, and then reading out bits of satire that they're treating as serious.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I'm halfway through their one on Snow Crash, and it seems to be largely them complaining how the satire doesn't work, and then reading out bits of satire that they're treating as serious.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I'm halfway through their one on Snow Crash, and it seems to be largely them complaining how the satire doesn't work, and then reading out bits of satire that they're treating as serious.

Arcsquad12 posted:

I mentioned some star wars books waaaaay back in the thread, and Karen miller has written some of them. The book I mentioned was "invincible", which I believe remains the only star wars book to contain a torture/underage sexual assault scene. Anyways, the series following that book was partially written by miller, and that series involved a psychotic ex imperial admiral becoming space president, a whole new super sith army, and a tentacle monster from a star trek episode as the big villain for the series.

Nckdictator posted:

"nether universe pole"

Electric Lady posted:

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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Scruffy the Janitor saying, "She walks in beauty, like a pile of rocks and critters," before purposefully licking his fingertip and turning the page of his nudie magazine.

Lumbermouth posted:

It's been a long time since I've read it, but I feel like Jay and Collision's assessment of Snow Crash is right on. I never bought it as a cyberpunk satire. There's a difference between satire and parody/comedy and Snow Crash never really engages with the style and tropes of cyberpunk in a satirical way. It's a comedic cyberpunk Neal Stephenson novel with some base hit observations on globalization and a bunch of creepy stuff about a teenage girl who's totally mature enough, guys.

EmmyOk posted:

There are people that think Transformers is satire.