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PRADA SLUT posted:I’ll give it a shot. I was hoping for some annotations when I read poetry because it helps me separate the meaning from the masturbation Lmao have you ever seen a poem? 
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A while ago I read and loved Dennis Cooper's "The Sluts" any other good novels that are written partly or entirely as conversations happening on an internet message board? I thought it was a fascinating way to tell a mystery story my guess is there are probably some things like this online that aren't novels, and I'd be interested in seeing those too if anyone knows of any
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Oct 4, 2023 07:13
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Not quite the same, but Ship of Theseus is a meta-textual novel where much of the story is conveyed via a conversation between people writing notes in the margins of the book as they read it.
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Oct 4, 2023 09:16
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A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge is a sci fi novel about a marooned ship but the universe assumes that 1999-style bulletin boards continued being the main locus of social life online so much of the plot takes place like that. Makes for a painful audiobook let me tell you
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PRADA SLUT posted:Version of Les Fleurs du Mal that has like.. annotations, or is otherwise reasonably easy to interpret? Oxford World's Classics edition is bilingual and has textual notes. The translation is by James N McGowan.
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Oct 4, 2023 13:09
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Paperhouse posted:any other good novels that are written partly or entirely as conversations happening on an internet message board? I thought it was a fascinating way to tell a mystery story Diane Duane's Spock's World has some portions written on the Enterprise's internal BBS.
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Full disclosure that I haven't read either but: Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke is entirely in Slack messages. Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer isn't entirely through posts but I believe a significant portion is.
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Oct 4, 2023 20:27
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Iain M Banks’ Excession features extensive online conversations between spaceship AIs who talk to each other like nineties era usenet users
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Iain M Banks’ Excession features extensive online conversations between spaceship AIs who talk to each other like nineties era usenet users Also web comic 17777, a delightful story about humans achieving immortality, sentient space probes, and football
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Oct 4, 2023 22:40
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and the short story comp.basilisk.FAQ is written as a usenet post
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Oct 4, 2023 22:44
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Bilirubin posted:Also web comic 17776, a delightful story about humans achieving immortality, sentient space probes, and football It is entirely about football. That other stuff is just worldbuilding to set up the football. Gripweed fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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Oct 5, 2023 03:17
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You might like The Northern Caves and the short story Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather, both available online.
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Oct 5, 2023 14:50
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Also, just a general recommendation to everyone to read 17776. It's by Jon Bois, who you will know from his excellent long form documentaries about sports that manage to be entertaining even to people who know nothing of sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4 He wrote 17776 a few years back when the CTE scandal was big and there was a lot of serious talk about "the future of football". Bois decided that rather than talk about the immediate future of football, it would be more worthwhile to talk about the distant future of football. What will football look like thousands of years in the future when people are immortal? There's stuff about a game of football played on a field that's the normal football field width but one endzone is on the US/Mexico border and the other endzone is on the US/Canada border, a game where both teams decided they had legal ownership of the yardage they claimed and the game eventually evolved into pure real estate speculation, that kind of thing. It's very silly, but it's all anchored to this real point about how crucial games are to human life. When you can not die, what is left but to play football?
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looking for some book suggestions for my old man. He loves hard sci-fi and hard space stuff his favorite movies are Interstellar and Apollo 13. Basically looking for the book equivalent of Interstellar. He's read all the classic hard sci fi stuff like Clarke and Greg Bear, so some deep cuts or something newer would be appreciated
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Oct 5, 2023 21:11
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He'd probably like Hail Mary project
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Oct 5, 2023 21:28
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I'd recommend Andy Weir, yeah. Or maybe the Lady Astronaut books.
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Kvlt! posted:looking for some book suggestions for my old man. He loves hard sci-fi and hard space stuff his favorite movies are Interstellar and Apollo 13. I wonder if Children of Time would work for him. It’s hard sf, revolves around generations of decisions and their knock-on consequences, but there is some magical future technology at work. It’s one of my favorite books too
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Sorry for the double post, I’m looking for a book like Around the World in 80 Days, which I really liked. I just loved the travelogue of it. I could leave the lovely racism and nationalism but I’m glad it’s there as a reminder of like, how hosed up the nineteenth century was. I chose 80 Days because it’s public domain
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Kvlt! posted:looking for some book suggestions for my old man. He loves hard sci-fi and hard space stuff his favorite movies are Interstellar and Apollo 13. The expanse series seems like it'd qualify Blindsight by Watts tuyop posted:Sorry for the double post, I’m looking for a book like Around the World in 80 Days, which I really liked. As I am honor bound to only recommend books with vehicles called the rocinante, Travels With Charley Azhais fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Kvlt! posted:looking for some book suggestions for my old man. He loves hard sci-fi and hard space stuff his favorite movies are Interstellar and Apollo 13. Iain M. Banks maybe, also The Expanse.
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Oct 6, 2023 03:44
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tuyop posted:Sorry for the double post, I’m looking for a book like Around the World in 80 Days, which I really liked. The best travelogue is Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)
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HateTheInternet posted:Give me the most heart-wrenching, depressing, and/or cynical modern coming-of-age novels you know. I want to really feel things. And thank you.
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Kvlt! posted:looking for some book suggestions for my old man. He loves hard sci-fi and hard space stuff his favorite movies are Interstellar and Apollo 13. Maybe Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora or his Mars trilogy, if he hasn’t read those.
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Looking for recommendations for sci Fi. Previously enjoyed the Culture series, Asimov, etc etc. Spaceships welcome. Lasers welcome.
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Oct 9, 2023 07:44
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VelociBacon posted:Looking for recommendations for sci Fi. Previously enjoyed the Culture series, Asimov, etc etc. Spaceships welcome. Lasers welcome. What about robots? Welcome/not welcome?  
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What about robots? Welcome/not welcome? Dunno if that's a serious suggestion so I'll just ignore it I guess! e: ah it's Finnish.
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Oct 9, 2023 09:11
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Any of Ursula le Guin's sci-fi books (particularly Lathe of Heaven, Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and Always Coming Home) are a great read.
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VelociBacon posted:Looking for recommendations for sci Fi. Previously enjoyed the Culture series, Asimov, etc etc. Spaceships welcome. Lasers welcome. I'll give you the standard recs from the SciFi/Fantasy thread plus a few of my own Louis McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga Greg Egan (Diaspora, The Best of) Blindsight by Peter Watts C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series plus the Alliance - Union series Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence Alistair Reynold's House of Suns Walter Jon William's Implied Spaces Jack Vance If you want hardcore lasers and space ships, there's the Lensman series
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I'm enjoying Artifact Space right now, it's sort of a competence porn novel about an underdog Orphan turned spy hunter.
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I really liked Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, it came out earlier this year. Very space opera so there's aliens and lasers and you shouldn't examine the technology too much.
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VelociBacon posted:Looking for recommendations for sci Fi. Previously enjoyed the Culture series, Asimov, etc etc. Spaceships welcome. Lasers welcome. In addition to the recs already posted, maybe check out Dragon’s Egg (human exploration of a neutron star that ends up having bizarre stuff on it), Rendezvous with Rama (human exploration of a big asteroid that ends up having bizarre stuff on it), and Axis (for some reason the stars go out). I also enjoyed the three body problem trilogy.
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Oct 9, 2023 16:54
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Murderbot, Baru Cormorant?
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VelociBacon posted:Looking for recommendations for sci Fi. Previously enjoyed the Culture series, Asimov, etc etc. Spaceships welcome. Lasers welcome. The long way to a small angry planet All systems red Ten low A memory called empire
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Thanks for all the suggestions!
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Looking for: - audiobook! - sci-fi/fantasy - “page turner” - actual good books preferred but fun trash also welcome Lately having a really engaging audiobook on has been incredible for getting work done. I’m going to be working outside for the rest of this week and need some audiobook recommendations! What I’ve listened to lately - - Jurassic Park - The Lost World (DNF, got bored of this one) - Sphere - Translation State by Ann Leckie Rereading Jurassic Park got me on a real Crichton kick but by the time I got through Sphere I felt like I’d gotten my fun out of it. Books I like - Ann leckie’s imperial radch - tamsyn Muir’s locked tomb series (audiobooks on this tier would be amazing) - Jeff vandermeer’s southern reach trilogy - Robin hobb’s fool books - Hugh howie’s silo series Almost anything fiction with a reasonably fast-paced story and hopefully good narrator should work!
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Oct 10, 2023 14:08
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mareep posted:Looking for: Expanse books?
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Oct 10, 2023 14:10
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James Marsters does an excellent job with the Dresden Files
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Open and hoping for more recs but both the Expanse and the Dresden Files suggestions are perfect, thanks!
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mareep posted:Looking for: You should look into, the entire Horus Heresy series. They do vary in quality a lot because they're written by so many different people, but "fun trash" is their standard and some of them are quite good. And their audiobooks are always done by someone with a lovely British voice and, presumably, a ton of classical stage experience slumming it by doing these sill sci-fi audiobooks.
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The first law series is also well narrated. And best served cold is being turned into a TV series so you could listen to it then be mad at all the changes they make!
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