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Ramadu posted:i read some weird OSC book after i finished all the ender books and was like well i enjoyed those lets try his other stuff. i came across some book that was like the last book in some series where it was way in the future and all the humans got kicked off earth by our AI overlords and segregated by races and watched over until they thought we were ready to be let back onto earth and everytime they did we just kept genociding each other cause of our skin color i guess. hey just fyi that entire series is card doing a scifi retelling of the book of mormon, some of the characters even have the same names Ed Balls
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Epic High Five posted:I've always been of the opinion that any encounter with aliens in a hostile context would be a total slaughter for one side or the other. Even if they were just 50 years behind us or ahead of us in terms of technology, it'd be enough to kill them all without a casualty or the reverse, like that one loving anime Baloogan was on about with the ship that went back to WW2 to more effectively genocide the Chinese or whatever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2LqcblaNG8
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i laughed a lot when those dudes who fought in vietnam went to fight space aliens and came back and the whole world was gay so they were like nah i dont wanna bone a dude so they went back out to fight more aliens. the forever war owned
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Epic High Five posted:I've always been of the opinion that any encounter with aliens in a hostile context would be a total slaughter for one side or the other. Even if they were just 50 years behind us or ahead of us in terms of technology, it'd be enough to kill them all without a casualty or the reverse, like that one loving anime Baloogan was on about with the ship that went back to WW2 to more effectively genocide the Chinese or whatever forever war is the one movie that needs to get made but never will be
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Baloogan posted:i care ppl ask if i serious post sometimes its like i aint lyin 
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Ramadu posted:i laughed a lot when those dudes who fought in vietnam went to fight space aliens and came back and the whole world was gay so they were like nah i dont wanna bone a dude so they went back out to fight more aliens. It really did
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Mayor Dave posted:hey just fyi that entire series is card doing a scifi retelling of the book of mormon, some of the characters even have the same names haha really? i was in high school working at the library at the time so i just picked it up off the shelf and just had no idea what the gently caress i was reading. i was entertained though not gonna lie
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Baloogan posted:'viral memes' are the smell our rotting civilization gives off while it rots and we all cheer for the rotting gasses escaping instead of trying to live when one civilization dies, invariably another is born, where it will be is what i, as yet can't fathom
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Epic High Five posted:I have not, my tolerance for extremely religious centric fiction is pretty thin at the moment after having just finished Canticle, how much does it lean on those concepts? im gonna say that if u thought canticle was too catholic u might not be in the mood to read a book about a jesuit
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:when one civilization dies, invariably another is born, where it will be is what i, as yet can't fathom loving CUCK NO YOU DONT FUCKIGN NO gently caress
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Epic High Five posted:hell yeah, they realized early on that the best Starship Troopers adaptation would be one that ignored the last half of the book and included some rude rear end tittays Also Doogie Howser running the military intelligence wing giving a friendly how-to video on aiming for the neural ganglia or whatnot.
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deadgoon posted:im gonna say that if u thought canticle was too catholic u might not be in the mood to read a book about a jesuit "Jesuit priest encounters space aliens as a pretense to explore faith" isn't a rare genre I'll check it out in any case, by the time I get to it in my backlog I'll probably be more tolerant of the pretense
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the sparrow or whatever is the worst book ive ever read and the author prob should be banned from wriiting books
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the doom books got pretty religious near the end of book 3 books 1&2 own though
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not to say I didn't enjoy Canticle, I did a lot actually, but as an atheist it involved a lot of digging into unfamiliar stuff that the author just assumed I'd know apparently which made it infinitely more tedious to read
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Ramadu posted:haha really? i was in high school working at the library at the time so i just picked it up off the shelf and just had no idea what the gently caress i was reading. i was entertained though not gonna lie card's two longest series besides the ender books are a fantasy folklore retelling of the life of joseph smith and the far future retelling of the book of mormon
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Epic High Five posted:It really did The ending put a big ol' dumb smile on my face.
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Baloogan posted:the sparrow or whatever is the worst book ive ever read and the author prob should be banned from wriiting books same but the bible 
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if your reading a book about a jesuit mission to some alien planet written byy a unknown authoress who has serious issues let me tell you the book is poo poo poorly written and the 'twist' is so dumb
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that and the combat in Forever War was always either getting totally loving obliterated or totally routing them with nothing ever being even
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FAUXTON posted:The ending put a big ol' dumb smile on my face. what ended up happening to humanity? yeah that owned
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also, the best heinlein book is moon is a harsh mistress gravity wells suck
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Gringostar posted:also, the best heinlein book is moon is a harsh mistress i loved that they just wanted to be left alone to gently caress their sisters in peace IS THAT SO WRONG EARTH???? *chucks rocks at earth*
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Gringostar posted:also, the best heinlein book is moon is a harsh mistress The two moon books I need to read that are on the short list are that and The Dispossessed
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trump make the loving tweet so i can to sleep you old bitch 
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What if trump loses to stairs one morning and we get pence
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Disspossesed is not actually a literal moon but is deffo the cultural satellite so whatever, gently caress it I know little about it because I tend to go into books blind
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Baloogan posted:the sparrow or whatever is the worst book ive ever read and the author prob should be banned from wriiting books why didnt u like the book baloogan
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o yea our prez is afraid o stairs lmao
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Epic High Five posted:The two moon books I need to read that are on the short list are that and The Dispossessed add leviathan wakes to that list its kind of a moon book it also has power armor
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deadgoon posted:why didnt u like the book baloogan prolly cuz it was bad
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Gringostar posted:what ended up happening to humanity? The part where they set up a bunch of resort planets where everyone wanting to gently caress could do so while the rest just happily cloned themselves and made peace with the guys they'd been fighting for millennia? Agreed that owned pretty hard, especially when the love interest turned out to have shacked up at relativistic speed so she could survive long enough to see her guy again, which is what I was talking about, you jerk.
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Gringostar posted:add leviathan wakes to that list Read it, it was a pretty good book but didn't feel the desire to delve further into the universe. It was pretty space opera-ey which I can't do much of
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Turdfuzz posted:prolly cuz it was bad why was the book bad turdfuzz
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i read some book where our moon was actually a super old death star that concealed itself as a moon and we were some colony of its crew that mutineed. eventually we have moon bases and it needs a pilot and then they warp the moon away and are like its cool guys we left a little black hole of the same gravity in its place nbd
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deadgoon posted:why was the book bad turdfuzz cuz o all the bad stuff in it
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FAUXTON posted:The part where they set up a bunch of resort planets where everyone wanting to gently caress could do so while the rest just happily cloned themselves and made peace with the guys they'd been fighting for millennia? i was talking about how humanity's final form was brown skinned and not white washing poo poo like most sci-fi does
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