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someone should tell sci fi authors to go jerk off before writing instead of churning out some excruciating scenes while horned up
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 13:55 |
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bump_fn posted:eyyyy i'm yakuza'ing here
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 14:02 |
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Fart Sandwiches posted:the worst part of any fantasy / sci fi (I guess really any genre but it’s worst in these) is having to read about the authors hosed up sex things. like it’s so ridiculous for rothfuss to not only have Amazonian sex ninjas but they also didn’t know that babies came from sex and STIs didn’t exist in their society because they were clean or something still better than the ones who fill their books with rape because it's the only way they know how to make a woman vulnerable, a villain bad, or a hero motivated
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 14:19 |
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Re-listening to A Memory Called Empire (Martine, 2019) a couple thoughts:
*: Most of the songs in Dune (Herbert, 1965) and The Dune Encyclopedia (McNelly et. al., 1984)**, however, are p.-to-v.deece. I'm mostly talking about the unremitting poo poo that is any attempt at it by J.R.R. Tolkien. **: McNelly was mostly a scholar of, among other things, English poetry so that's probably why he had more skill at songwriting but Tolkien purported to be a scholar as well so it's apparently no assurance? Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Nov 25, 2020 |
# ? Nov 25, 2020 15:56 |
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I can’t stop thinking about a Verhoeven Ready Player One
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 16:16 |
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One of my greatest regrets was not picking up a used copy of The Dune Encyclopedia I saw for cheap in in p.deece condition.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 16:19 |
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thanks for the suggestions pals now I just have to pick one
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 16:19 |
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indigi posted:I can’t stop thinking about a Verhoeven Ready Player One lol. robocop executes the main character then shoots ernest cline in the dick. sharon stone uncrosses her legs.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 17:24 |
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Roosevelt posted:lol. robocop executes the main character then shoots ernest cline in the dick. sharon stone uncrosses her legs.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 17:25 |
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Roosevelt posted:lol. robocop executes the main character then shoots ernest cline in the dick. sharon stone uncrosses her legs. two hundred squibs per square inch
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 17:32 |
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indigi posted:I can’t stop thinking about a Verhoeven Ready Player One yeah, this is an absolutely delightful thought. heinleins starship troopers is similar to ready player one in how it how it idealizes a real dumbshit idea about human achievement in a thin sci-fi wrapper, and the same kind of treatment would go a long way.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 17:32 |
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i just bought a wizard of earthsea and futurology gonna do some reading over thanksgiving
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 17:44 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAGDXYkOzM
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 17:55 |
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Achmed Jones posted:i just bought a wizard of earthsea and futurology earthsea such a classic. one of the first real series i read in elementary school
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 19:00 |
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indigi posted:I can’t stop thinking about a Verhoeven Ready Player One Roosevelt posted:lol. robocop executes the main character then shoots ernest cline in the dick. sharon stone uncrosses her legs.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 19:28 |
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mediaphage posted:earthsea such a classic. one of the first real series i read in elementary school I re-read the first two books a couple years ago, they hold up surprisingly well
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 19:30 |
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cool!
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 19:50 |
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jesus this new season of the crown
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 20:09 |
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oh are the earthsea books YA titles? i mean ill still read it but that's disappointing then again i read sword of the samurai cat in first grade and was hilariously inappropriately into everything about it. i dressed up as tomokato the samurai cat for halloween one year lmao
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 20:39 |
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Schadenboner posted:Re-listening to A Memory Called Empire (Martine, 2019) a couple thoughts: I thought it was ok. It felt really weird that there were like 10 people and 2 city blocks in the whole universe though
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 20:41 |
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Achmed Jones posted:oh are the earthsea books YA titles? i mean ill still read it but that's disappointing i think it’s only YA on a technicality it doesn’t have any gross sex in it that I remember though (I’ve only read the first book so far)
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 20:47 |
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ah cool then god sci fi and weird sex poo poo. loving heinlein. loving to sail beyond the sunset. gently caress. gross.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:17 |
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sex scenes in pretty much any novel but especially every sci fi novel should be limited to “and then they had sex and it ruled/sucked”
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:21 |
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the only two books I can remember giving up on halfway through are both heinlein (number of the beast and stranger in a strange land)
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:22 |
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haveblue posted:the only two books I can remember giving up on halfway through are both heinlein (number of the beast and stranger in a strange land) I tried to read a piers anthony book and ended up throwing it across the room
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:25 |
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for whatever your options of doctorow are, he wrote a sex scene in eastern standard tribe that stood out to me as one of the best at the time:quote:15. indigi posted:sex scenes in pretty much any novel but especially every sci fi novel should be limited to “and then they had sex and it ruled/sucked” edit: right after i posted i saw this and yeah, its almost the ideal sci-fi sex scene
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:26 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I tried to read a piers anthony book and ended up throwing it across the room i finished exactly one of their books and feel it should preemptively count toward some form of credit against a future wrong
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:29 |
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and, like, if you can't not write the sex scene, at least you know don't use the word "impaled" gently caress you william gibson, gently caress you larry niven
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:31 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I tried to read a piers anthony book and ended up throwing it across the room i read a bunch of them as a kid i picked one up when i was older and found a plot about a 50 year dude wanting to have sex with a 16 year old and stopped and threw them all out Achmed Jones posted:and, like, if you can't not write the sex scene, at least also not allowed: “turgid member”
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:31 |
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D: i dont think ive ever read that one. i am happy for that fact
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:33 |
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isn’t piers anthony the guy that had some kid run away from home to be with him
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:42 |
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Achmed Jones posted:and, like, if you can't not write the sex scene, at least if you can’t not write the sex scene at least make it ridiculous. he porked her down with his mighty tomato torpedo e: or like this quote:He thought of Nina and her mellifluous buttocks that he used to love to bang. Even now his nano enhanced hearing could almost hear her vagina lips quivering with moisture and also pleasure, like a slice of synth-ham being tongued by one of Malaprop’s slamhounds. When he got back to City5, he was going to do some sex, no doubt about that. “That’s right doll” he said to nobody and the wind. They were going to do it hard. He smiled, blowing smoke from his nostrils. They were going to do it cyber hard. indigi fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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The Fool posted:isn’t piers anthony the guy that had some kid run away from home to be with him https://io9.gizmodo.com/in-1987-a-young-fantasy-fan-ran-away-from-home-to-live-5931929
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:53 |
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indigi posted:
ready player two excerpts getting saucy
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:54 |
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I can’t even imagine figuring out where an author lives currently, and that’s with Google and social media and poo poo. props to that kid for actually winding up at Anthony’s house
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 21:56 |
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The Fool posted:yes read the full transcript of this and it was actually a really cool story
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 22:02 |
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pointsofdata posted:I thought it was ok. It felt really weird that there were like 10 people and 2 city blocks in the whole universe though she’s under house arrest for most of the book. its not like she would have much chance to take in the sights she does go to that diner that explodes i agree in general it felt a bit empty and could use some fleshing out. enjoyable enough read
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 22:06 |
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indigi posted:I can’t even imagine figuring out where an author lives currently, and that’s with Google and social media and poo poo. props to that kid for actually winding up at Anthony’s house I guess Anthony would write little slice-of-life style diary entries in the backs of his books and the kid used clues from those to figure it out.
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 22:07 |
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yeah but like (picking a name at random) John Scalzi tweets twenty times a day and I doubt I’d be able to find my way to his doorstep without hiring a PI or something
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# ? Nov 25, 2020 22:09 |
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The Fool posted:I guess Anthony would write little slice-of-life style diary entries in the backs of his books and the kid used clues from those to figure it out. the printed maps in the books are maps of florida with all the place names changed to fantasy ones. the kid correctly guessed piers lived at the real location corresponding to the fantasy capital and then found him in a phone book (it was 1987)
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