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wayfinder posted:He's the guy who made Al Capone's reincarnated soul the unironic bad guy in a trilogy Yeah he's rad as gently caress.
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Memento posted:I'll give it a shot, I need something to read having finally managed to wade through the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Because it's a single book it's way tighter than his sprawling serieses. The very ending is a bit... though.
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Phlegmish posted:A common theme is incongruous guns "Women laughing while eating salad" is practically its own genre.
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Biplane posted:Yeah he's rad as gently caress. I'm not disagreeing. I was just surprised to see him mentioned as hard scifi
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Phlegmish posted:A common theme is incongruous guns Don't take carp from no one! Clean these mean streams Fish Detective Pauline Cooper!
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wayfinder posted:I'm not disagreeing. I was just surprised to see him mentioned as hard scifi I found the progression of technologies that he envisaged to be pretty sensible, and far from the Stainless Steel Rat type of material. Hard enough for me.
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Nordick posted:Sounds like you're thinking of Bill, the Galactic Hero. He was the country bumpkin who was drafted into war and lost his left arm and leg in battle, had his left arm replaced with his dead buddy's right arm, and had a different new mutant animal leg in every book. Because the military had a shortage of actual human spare parts. Never read Bill, the Galactic Hero The Stainless Steel Rat was an honorific like The Dread Pirate Roberts More rats that way
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syscall girl posted:Insanely sick Alan Alda ?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Saw this in a store yesterday: That didn't even air on ABC, smdh
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syscall girl posted:and i'd only heard good things about paying for sex well yeah, ur mom made a shitload of money
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Hogge Wild posted:well yeah, ur mom made a shitload of money lol
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Orgasm in Spanish/Portuguese is probably orgasmo or something, that kid knew exactly what he was doing.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Is this a Transformers sequel? Prequel.
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Harry Harrison's "To The Stars" trilogy is still one of my favourite sci-fis. Despite being softcore pulp, it accurately depicts a space battle better than most anything else I've ever read. It also spends a lot of time on practical challenges of living on lovely tidally locked planets. I don't know, I highly recommend it.
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FuhrerHat posted:Harry Harrison's "To The Stars" trilogy is still one of my favourite sci-fis. Harry Harrison was a genius, but also a guy of his times. His later works uh quote:Imperetrix Von Kaiser-Czarski is the richest man in the universe, and someone is systematically robbing all of his banks. He decides that the best course of action is to set a thief to catch a thief, and the best thief of them all is one Slippery Jim diGriz. Sceptical at first, Jim is soon won over by the promise of four million credits a day, plus expenses. Jim and Angelina enlist the help of their twin sons, James and Bolivar, and James' computers soon find the common link between all of the robberies: every time a bank was hit, there was a circus in town. The same circus. What better way to find out about the goings on among circus-folk than to become one of them? And so Slippery Jim becomes master magician Mighty Marvell, and soon discovers that—just like him—everyone isn't quite what they seem. quote:Slippery Jim diGriz, alias the Stainless Steel Rat, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, returns in his most devilish caper yet. you crazy diamond
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Harry Harrison wrote West of Eden, a novel about cavmen getting invaded by a race of super intelligent humanoid dinosaurs who have incredibly advanced genetic manipulation technology, to the point that all their machines, transportation, weapons, etc. are artificially created living creatures, but never discovered fire.
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I think I read that one. Doesn't the protagonist end up in a weird relationship with one of the reptile commanders at one point? e: oh, he was raised by them Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 16:22 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:Harry Harrison wrote West of Eden, a novel about cavmen getting invaded by a race of super intelligent humanoid dinosaurs who have incredibly advanced genetic manipulation technology, to the point that all their machines, transportation, weapons, etc. are artificially created living creatures, but never discovered fire. genius
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Phlegmish posted:I think I read that one. Doesn't the protagonist end up in a weird relationship with one of the reptile commanders at one point? The lizard leader starts molesting him, yeah
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Seriously. I bought that when I was a kid. The thing was a mind-blower and as you said it's hard to follow. What really stuck with me were the holograms that people wore. Seemed like such a cool idea. Between John Berkey and Chris Foss all your wild science fiction spaceship needs will be covered.
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Considering that Pitbull went all the way to that Walmart in Alaska, I'd totally believe that he would record a track for an album like that if it's for a contest winner or something.
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The MSJ posted:Considering that Pitbull went all the way to that Walmart in Alaska, I'd totally believe that he would record a track for an album like that if it's for a contest winner or something. If that weren't an Obvious Plant, I'd agree. I can't even hate Pitbull because he was such a good sport about that whole thing.
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WHAT'S IN THE JACK-IN-THE-BOX
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 17:32 |
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The future of cat
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Elias_Maluco posted:The future of cat I would like to know more
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Titus Sardonicus posted:If that weren't an Obvious Plant, I'd agree. I can't even hate Pitbull because he was such a good sport about that whole thing. I don't think you were supposed to Now SMARshmouf eat the egggggggg, that's a whole different thing
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Guy Goodbody posted:The lizard leader starts molesting him, yeah Yeah but she only does that in between literally breeding the male lizard people to death.
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The MSJ posted:Considering that Pitbull went all the way to that Walmart in Alaska, I'd totally believe that he would record a track for an album like that if it's for a contest winner or something.
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Elias_Maluco posted:The future of cat Future? Please.
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Phlegmish posted:A common theme is incongruous guns
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This is what the alt-right believes
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rest of set?
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Fried Watermelon posted:This is what the alt-right believes Maybe its not a bad idea
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Nordick posted:Stainless Steel Rat was about the con man/gentleman thief who got into all sorts of shady adventure hijinks. Also a very good series and pretty funny but not straight-up cheeseball parody like Bill. He was a porcuswine herder as a kid, as far as I recall. Funny picture tax, to balance out the derail.
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Fried Watermelon posted:This is what the alt-right believes Alt-right, alt-right, alt-right!
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Solice Kirsk posted:Alt-right, alt-right, alt-right! that doesnt do anything on my keyboard
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Jim DiGriz posted:He was a porcuswine herder as a kid, as far as I recall. I just laughed myself to tears with that
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canyoneer posted:I just laughed myself to tears with that
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