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FMguru posted:it's too bad - simmons has written some great stuff, especially the Hyperion books, but after 9/11 he fell headfirst into islamofascism/eurabia paranoia like he had ten thousand posts on freerepublic. sad. holy fuckin poo poo this is THAT dan simmons?! loved the hyperion series, guy literally wrote a sci fi epic based on the canterbury tales and featuring a lot of keats, and now he's writing glenn beck yiff fuel goddamn thanks for ruining my night
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Amethyst posted:skip gaiman, read clive barker's weaveworld and immagica instead quotin dis, been 25 years but iirc weaveworld was the best clive barker homercles posted:If you want something to read, start out here, work your way up or down, just skip 2010 holky gently caress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel I didn't know the hugo was named after hugo gernsback first time I read about that guy was in william gibson's short story the gernsback continuum in burning chrome pretty late to this thread but seriously has there been a better sci fi published since necromancer edit: it's artless so hard to compare to neuromancer but vacuum diagrams by stephen baxter is about the best I've read in the past 25 years, endlessly imaginative, hard science, a conflict that spans the size and age of our universe etc, doesn't get any grander skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jun 4, 2012 |
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Amethyst posted:abarat is garbage wasn't that his attempt at sucking money from the harry potter/twilight market
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holy poo poo, used to watch this when I was a kid dad always liked princess ardala but I'm more of a colonel wilma deering man
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Omg Buck just roofied the princess watched the whole thing best parts were the kraftwerk-lite song at the big soiree and of course Colonel Wilma Deering 
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well to be fair she wasn't put on this earth to talk
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Deuterieux posted:it stuck that way as a child and she somehow managed to work that into a career. she had other assets too  ok that's enough ladypostin for me, thanks for the trip down mammary lane
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so uh all you dudes who went to see the new Snow White movie, in opening week, at the theatres were you guys on dates with girls, or
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watched prometheus again literally everything in that movie is wrong, starting with the braveheart style theme at 5 seconds into the picture goddamn what a disappointment, although scott's track record on director's cuts transforming a movie ala blade runner is excellent edit: no even then it's hosed unless they remove everything to do with engineers skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jun 18, 2012 |
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Amethyst posted:every body watch Black Mirror right the gently caress now the 2nd ep, 15 Million Merits, is basically the world that Google dreams about bringing to life
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Slumber, watcher, 'til the spheres, six and twenty thousand years have revolved, and I return to the spot where now I burn. Other stars anon shall rise to the axis of the skies; stars that soothe and stars that bless with a sweet forgetfulness: Only when my round is o'er shall the past disturb thy door. >25 years and I still remember it line for line
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Ronald Raiden posted:it's the lyrics to Allstar by smashmouth  I remember it because we had to pick some poetry to memorize and recite for school, and one of the other dorks already chose The Raven, it just stuck in my head forever lots of fond memories of reading those stories one summer at camp with a flashlight in my sleeping bag, I'd go back an reread them but they'd probably wither under my middle aged cynicism skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jun 21, 2012 |
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ahhh spiders posted:haha drat, turns out u r a 90's kid after all eh that's from an hp lovecraft story from the 20s iirc was it also featured in a pokemon episode or something
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axolotl farmer posted:Tarkovski - Stalker, Solaris. So pretty, so slow I prefer clooney's solaris tbh, stalker is a masterpiece, read geoff dyer's zona if you agree can't remember if it was kid lit or not but I remember one of the best fantasy series I ever read was The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Kavriel Kay
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re enterprise I heard the 3rd season (one big arc) was good? I tried watching the series premiere though and turned it off at the theme song
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E2M3 posted:i really wanted to like american gangster and matchstick men too but hated htem both nice opinions mister carehard badtaste
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ian holm >>>>> fassbender on the android actor scale but fassbender was given poo poo to work with
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that awful man posted:i still can't believe that they're rebooting the spiderman series so soon. I can't believe there isn't a spider man/batman/superman etc movie released every year like call of duty moviegoers have proven they'll pay to watch any loving thing featuring super powers and big explosions
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as soon as time travel enters a story universe, there's no point caring what happens anymore with time travel, everything is possible and nothing is what it seems major character dies? go back in time and save him protagonist suffers big defeat at the hands of his enemies? go back in time and change history time travel makes for great what-if stories but works much better as a one-off instead of a feature in a series with continuity, since the viewer has no need to invest themselves in the story with the giant time travel undo button lurking in the background
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Shaggar posted:there arent any 2 parters in s1 i dont think except for literally the series premiere come on son
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just chiming in to say I saw iron maiden last week in toronto and they not only owned pretty hard but are a fairly sci-fi-ish band as evidenced by the many sci fi references in this classic album cover
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Chaka Make Tablet posted:they're the perfect pinnacle of nerd cheese and totally enjoyable if you can suspend elitism long enough taste != elitism, republican
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Heresiarch posted:I re-watched Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" the other day and it holds up surprisingly well. I mean, it's not good that's because it's great seriously couldn't go near a mirror for two days after seeing that late one night as a kid
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got a lot of travel coming up and loading up the phone with books for the road, comments and criticism on the following appreciated china mieville - embassytown, kraken, the city and the city iain banks - matter, surface detail I like the mieville that I've read (the new crobuzon books) and for the most part I like banks' culture novels but some of them not as much as others
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Chaka Make Tablet posted:the culture books all provide context for each other, but so far the best two, by far, are Use of Weapons and Excession. Excession is so good it beggars the rest of his work. same are any of his non culture books any good? I think I read wasp factory, if I did it didn't make much of an impression
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if they ever make a high res kindle I might, until then I'll take my retina displays
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Amethyst posted:text is infinitely more comfortable to read on eInk than lcd I find it uncomfortable when I bleed from the eyes reading low contrast 80dpi text but ymmv
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this was a p cool thread I'm gonna miss it when it gets gassed for seriousposts about vampires
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someone posted this guy in the pics thread and I wanted to make sure it didn't get missed here I had a great book by John Brunner shortly before he died called A Maze of Stars and it had this amazing cover, turns out it was by this dude
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I've been working out on an elliptical a lot lately and while I can read my ipad on it, I can't read anything too serious need some recos for workout reading, I tried malazan but it was too hard to follow while sweating away i liked dragonlance when I was a kid so I thought I'd try some old D&D novels like greyhawk or w/e because I still dont know who mordenkainen is what's the least shameful old school D&D franchise to read? greyhawk, forgotten realms, eberron, dark sun, ravenloft, spelljammer, gamma world, star frontiers etc
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:ask yourself this: when the cute girl on the elliptical leans over and asks what youre reading, which series would embarrass you least? holy poo poo no this is my machine at home, I wouldn't dare break these out in public I'm not even sure I want them stored locally in case someone happens to pick up my ipad to see what I like reading Stymie posted:i really liked the fafhrd and grey mouser stories by fritz lieber and they were pretty light and easy reads yeah I read those too back in the day, they were good stories also john carter books
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Heresiarch posted:all d&d "novels" are just extended versions of the horrible "game fiction" you find in modern pen-and-paper rpgs that they try to use to set the tone but 99% of the time are just laughably bad because gamers are awful people I liked dragonlance when I was a kid? iunno I thought it might be fun at 5am I don't have the attention span for phonebook fantasy or hard sci fi
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House Louse posted:r e howard, hugh cook, clark ashton smith maybe hey conan that's a good idea, never read those also should read all the lovecrafts are there any pulpy sci fi equivalents other than john carter
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theflyingexecutive posted:lol all this reactionary poo poo means there's progress being made "progress"
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ya the hugos were hilarious this year on paper they're awarded by fan votes but they've been controlled by the same group for what 10 years now or more? this brain trust thinks they're helping preserve a bright future for sci fi by handing awards to the print version of tumblr fanfic, despite the fact that petabytes of that garbage are being churned out every day online for free on the other side you have some genre authors who produce a different type of garbage but their work is demonstrably popular with fans as their sales prove, they feel they've been deliberately excluded from the awards for political reasons (obviously true) so they form a voting bloc completely within the rules to try and win a couple awards just like gamergate the self-appointed gatekeepers lost their loving minds and decided to burn the whole thing to the ground instead of letting the outsiders win a single award, to the horror of GRRM and other nice old guys who think the Hugos were good ambassadors for sci fi (they were) and should have been saved instead the result is the commercially successful outsiders go home without any awards, the winners with the right politics get lots of press and pats on the back before going back to being commercial non-entities (see Caitlyn Jenners new TV show that no one's watching), while the awards themselves lose even more prestige as they're revealed to be nothing more than a political pissing match to the huge number of regular sci fi readers who might actually use the hugos to inform their purchasing decisions the whole thing owns and was 100% completely predictable, someone should have set up a book in vegas
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oh ya another thing the hugos do is publicly release all their voting data which this year is hilarious, it's up on google docs if you care but tldr: infernal machines posted:the hugos are not now and have probably never been a good reference to guide your sci-fi purchases it's a shame because sci fi amongst all literature really benefits from new developments in science if you don't like sci fi you can happily spend the rest of your life reading Harold Bloom recommendations http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/harold-bloom-creates-a-massive-list-of-works-in-the-western-canon.html
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theflyingexecutive posted:it's millennials v boomers and the hugo committee knows which way the wind is blowing the same way it's blowing with games, progressives patting themselves on the back for giving each other lots of press and awards while wondering where all the sales are the system works
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theflyingexecutive posted:internaut is arguing that the most popular books ought to win best of awards though Cnidaria posted:internaut is suggesting that sales should be a factor in the awards my posts are right there for everyone to see I didn't say anything like that Heresiarch posted:no because here i'm allowed to tell him that he's an offbrown shitstain without having to first muster up some kind of counterargument to whatever useless garbage he said progressive you guys can get mad at me for pointing out this stuff doesn't sell if you like even though I'm not creating or promoting it, I just enjoy seeing the gulf between critical darling and commercial success in games (and now sci fi) widening at light speed invoke Michelin to convince yourself it's because the product has suddenly gotten dramatically superior if you like, that's even funnier skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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FMguru posted:thats been suggested to them many times. there are two problems in this narrative, proud brown lesbian trans etc did the hard work of creating modern sci fi awards and old cis het white carpetbaggers are trying to steal it away from them work this up into 1000 words and by tomorrow morning you could have a shiny byline from VICE and 50 cents in your pocket
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