SPACE HOMOS posted:

If I have a sandwich how do I cut it in half so both halves have equal parts of each ingredient?

Bistromatic posted:

Folding space works the same way.

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SPACE HOMOS posted:

Hmm well you see I got my degree in pure math and the thing I remember most about non linear analysis was the question,

if I have a sandwich how do I cut it in half so both halves have equal parts of each ingredient?

Anne Frank Funk posted:

It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain. It is by the real mayo that thighs acquire girth, the shirts acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain.

Anne Frank Funk posted:

It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain. It is by the real mayo that thighs acquire girth, the shirts acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain.

Temaukel posted:

Harah maybe??

Anne Frank Funk posted:

It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain. It is by the real mayo that thighs acquire girth, the shirts acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain.

Vlex posted:

Shadout Mapes? Literally any background Bene Gesserit?

Temaukel posted:

I hope they do a good take on the banquet scene. It's full of interesting characters and subtle burns.

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Vlex posted:

Now the sandwich is complete, because i ate it

Vlex posted:

THE Shadout Mapes? Literally any background Bene Gesserit?

phasmid posted:

I mean, they have to. It's an important scene with a lot of exposure and shows Paul just getting dumped into the deep end of Arrakian politics.

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basic hitler posted:

Firstly,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIzTat3OD3w

The dune series is a series of really good books. They're branded as sci-fi but the hard-sci is scant. This is a book series about the capacities of the human mind, weird drugs, sietch orgies, religion as a tool of statecraft, in a world that came to eschew thinking machines for the danger they posed to humanity. For this reason you're not likely to read too many words describing anything like the computer as we know it.


The first three books are set really far in the future, and the second set is even way drat further into the future.\


The first three books are also kind of their own self contained story, and many people think you can and should start and finish here.




God Emperor Of Dune is a really weird book. I haven't read anything else like it, ever. It's also the bridge between the first three books and the next series. I think the merits of this book place it up there with the first, but it's a polarizing book. It's also the beginning of Frank Herbert typing a bunch of weird sex poo poo probably with his rock hard dick while smoking a shitload of weed. The only thing I can say about this book is, you should really read everything prior before attempting it, it relies heavily on the context laid down before it.



These two are the ones written toward the end, and Frank died before writing the last in a planned trilogy.



Brian Herbert (May God rip his tongue out) decided, decades after the death of his dad, to use his dad's notes and concepts to save his own floundering career, and wrote a book I haven't read but by all accounts doesn't come close to touching the level of his father's abilities as a writer. But if you like pulp sci-fi and just like reading poo poo, and don't have an irrational dislike for them arousing out of your love for the old books, you can probably do worse. I can't say for sure.

Anyway these books are books I love, and I like talking about them. I've picked up a handful of the originals on Audible, and I have to say the audiobook for Dune is really loving great. I just finished Messiah and I am now into Children Of Dune. Everyone should read and venerate these books imo.

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

Lem is the best, everything else in the genre is inferior. Herbert, Bradbury and Bester are still good, but not that good. Heinlein is a bad writer with worse ideas. It is a fact

b mad at me posted:

I've read Solaris and it was really weird and cool, but I'm going to have to stop you there.

Unless Lem wrote a loving truckload more poo poo

b mad at me posted:

I've read Solaris and it was really weird and cool, but I'm going to have to stop you there.

Unless Lem wrote a loving truckload more poo poo

Anne Frank Funk posted:

Umm he did write a lot, but speaking as a Pole I don’t get the west’s fascination with Lem. I always thought his prose is hermetic. He wrote a lot of books whose protagonists are sadbrains future men living under the strain of various sci-fi scenarios. Truth be told, there is a certain psychological realism to these depictions so that’s a plus. Futurological Congress is quite visionary and short if you want to check something else of his.

b mad at me posted:

This sounds all kinds of fascinating to me.

"It details the exploits of the hero of a number of his books, Ijon Tichy, as he visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica."

Yeah I will read this book.