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do they practice 'sounding' in bangkok? cuz i'm pretty sure that's where the thumper idea came from
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Are all sci fi authors dreadful old pervs? Asimov could be gross in person, apparently, and HG Wells married his cousin. I really liked Peter F Hamilton's stuff in high school, but eventually noticed his habit of including 1 (one) hot fourteen year old per novel... Maybe it's just old white dudes that are awful.
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Tree Bucket posted:Maybe it's just old white dudes that are awful. No dice, Samuel Delany was and probably still is a fuckin weirdo Oh yeah, and not just dudes either, Marion Zimmer Bradley was an honest-to-god pedo who molested her children.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized what a perv Clarke could be, he was (and still is) one of my favourite sci fi writers but god drat. By the time he got to writing 3001 it was just throwing ideas at a wall along with commentary about circumcision.
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Aug 27, 2019 01:13
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Clarke wrote Childhood's End. He is beyond reproach.
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phasmid posted:Clarke wrote Childhood's End. He is beyond reproach.  that and Songs of Distant Earth are stone cold classics. Shame about the Childhood’s end miniseries though.
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priznat posted:
Yeah. That was...let's call it mis-ambitious. At first I was so stoked though, with Charles Dance as Karellen.
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phasmid posted:Yeah. That was...let's call it mis-ambitious. At first I was so stoked though, with Charles Dance as Karellen. It did have its moments like I did actually enjoy the bits where they left earth.
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Aug 27, 2019 02:12
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D. Ebdrup posted:This seems like a setup to a joke. Sardaukar? I hardly knew 'ar!
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Tree Bucket posted:Are all sci fi authors dreadful old pervs? Asimov could be gross in person, apparently, and HG Wells married his cousin. I really liked Peter F Hamilton's stuff in high school, but eventually noticed his habit of including 1 (one) hot fourteen year old per novel...
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:Sardaukar? I hardly knew 'ar!
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Aug 27, 2019 05:39
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Dune dune dune dune, dune dune dune DUNE
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priznat posted:It wasn’t until I got older that I realized what a perv Clarke could be, he was (and still is) one of my favourite sci fi writers but god drat. A friend of mine went to Sri Lanka to interview Clarke some decades ago. He says there was a very weird vibe there with the house teeming with pubescent boy “servants”. Nothing definite, but very, very suspicious and unsettling
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Dune dune dune dune, dune dune dune DUNE [Imperial throne room] Me: [chanting] dune, dune- Other sardaukar: dune, DUNE navigator: [pounding his tank] DUNE, DUNE, DUNE!
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Aug 27, 2019 09:27
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:A friend of mine went to Sri Lanka to interview Clarke some decades ago. He says there was a very weird vibe there with the house teeming with pubescent boy “servants”. Nothing definite, but very, very suspicious and unsettling Was about to make this very same post (though think my friend was just a fan travelling through). That was the 90s and from this perspective it seems there used to be a more blase' yep everyone knows but whatever attitude.
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Nessus posted:I feel like Niven's sexual politics aren't great but he wasn't horny over stuff. Pournelle is a different story. Did you read that part in one of the Ringworld sequels where all the various humanoid species had to survive a sexvampire onslaught by loving each other to overcome the horny-pheromones the vampires exude to entice and capture prey?
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Did you read that part in one of the Ringworld sequels where all the various humanoid species had to survive a sexvampire onslaught by loving each other to overcome the horny-pheromones the vampires exude to entice and capture prey?  fair enough
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Welp, I just got to the part in Heretics where Duncan Idaho defeats an Honored Matres in a sex duel because he was secretly programmed by the Bene Tleilax to be a stealth sex weapon.
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Welp, I just got to the part in Heretics where Duncan Idaho defeats an Honored Matres in a sex duel because he was secretly programmed by the Bene Tleilax to be a stealth sex weapon. Which, incidentally, turns out to actually work when it comes being able to fall asleep better. Who would've thunk.
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Vlex posted:[Imperial throne room] I appreciate this post
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phasmid posted:Clarke wrote Childhood's End. He is beyond reproach. That is the only book I have ever simultaneously hated and loved. A brief search about Robert Heinlein shows everybody thought he was a weirdo sex guy as a writer but none of that seemed to surface in his personal behavior?
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Worse of'em all was of course Philip K. Dick, what with his alter ego "Horselover Fat".
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Childhood's End is great.
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phasmid posted:Clarke wrote Childhood's End. He is beyond reproach. Ending boys' childhoods is uh kind of what he's suspected of 
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To be fair, Heinlein was a sex weird in perspective to his own time. In TYOOL 2019, year of the Polycule, Heinleins views are rather normal. Even Stranger in a Strange Land isn't so weird anymore. Jack-Off Lantern fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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I'm in a polycule and i don't wanna be likened to Heinlein over it please!!!
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Please don't compare me to one of the most famous and successful sci fi authors ever due to my unorthodox sexual arrangement that I had to mention in what might be an attempt at a humble brag Sorry I mean "do you think Larry Niven ever sucked two dicks at once?"
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Can we just agree that Old Man Herbert was simply a horndog and should not be pigeonholed with actual sex criminals.
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Don't read a brag that isn't there, i just regard heinlein as a weirdo and im not a fan of his at all. I just didn't want to think of myself in the same light just for engaging in non-monogamy Sorry if it seemed like something funnier or more hostile or whatever i was just repulsed at the comparison
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Tree Bucket posted:Are all sci fi authors dreadful old pervs? Asimov could be gross in person, apparently, and HG Wells married his cousin. I really liked Peter F Hamilton's stuff in high school, but eventually noticed his habit of including 1 (one) hot fourteen year old per novel... Yeah Hamilton was weird with that poo poo, can't remember if he's still doing it with his latest. I think maybe Alastair Reynolds hasn't gone full perv. Not yet anyway.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Worse of'em all was of course Philip K. Dick, what with his alter ego "Horselover Fat". Thank you for bringing up Horselover Fat. To be fair, he was bad in a different way from the usual "pervy old man" self-insert. Horselover was bad because he was incomprehensible. PKD must have felt like he was totally dunking on the reader by writing a trilogy full of references to Gnosticism and numerology, but in practice, it's no different from reading the unpublishable scraps they compiled into "Exegesis of Philip K. Dick." On the positive side: Horselover has a great, lifesaving interaction with his psychiatrist in the beginning of VALIS. VERY long story short, the psychiatrist tells Horselover, "you are the expert," and Horselover's will to live is restored. I suspect PKD was longing for somebody to say, we love you PKD! You are smart! Nobody knows more about archaic religious beliefs than you!
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Riot Bimbo posted:Don't read a brag that isn't there, i just regard heinlein as a weirdo and im not a fan of his at all. I just didn't want to think of myself in the same light just for engaging in non-monogamy
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It was fall again, and with the changing of the leaves the ancient Frank Herbert dared. Braving the teeming water-fat masses of the outside world he made his way and at altar of the fish-wife goddess he made his demands of the barista. "The spice." he hissed, his voice a dusty rasp, almost a whisper. "It must flow." The servant prepared his beverage- the spice coffee- and the cinnamon and nutmeg smell of melange teased his nostrils. "So, uh, sir, do you want your senior discount?" the barista inquired "The geriatric discount??" "Uh, yeah, so that's ten cents off..." "Ah-h-h-h" Frank smiled in triumph, producing- just as he had foreseen- an additional coupon and slid it across the counter. Deals within deals...
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Ramc posted:It was fall again, and with the changing of the leaves the ancient Frank Herbert dared.
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Vlex posted:Can we just agree that Old Man Herbert was simply a horndog and should not be pigeonholed with actual sex criminals. I put him in the same category as Roger Ebert. Good man, just has an overwhelming love for various body parts.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Dune dune dune dune, dune dune dune DUNE Vlex posted:[Imperial throne room] Dune by dawn Dune by dawn Dune by DAWN! DUNEBYDAWN DUNEBYDAWN DUNEBYDAWN 
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Ramc posted:It was fall again, and with the changing of the leaves the ancient Frank Herbert dared.
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Posting because it should be posted occasionally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcgft-iiZ_s
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All this talk about the typical sci-fi author being a weirding lay makes me think... What genre fiction has the most virtous authors? THE BAR posted:I put him in the same category as Roger Ebert. Good man, just has an overwhelming love for various body parts. Who doesn't like a timely thumb.
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