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i'm actually from the future but i can't use my future knowledge to make bets on the stock market or sports or anything because i'm ignorant as poo poo
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axolotl farmer posted:Anathem was alright. i thought so too the wifu and i are doing some work that has us in the car for many hours at a time so we're listening to the audiobook now and it's p cool
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Jul 7, 2011 00:49
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TOOT BOOT posted:It's a loooooooooooot easier to find good science fiction than it is to find good fantasy extremely true
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Jul 8, 2011 05:27
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Jul 8, 2011 06:13
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wait i thought the one where data got a boner WAS measure of man
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Jul 8, 2011 15:24
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yeah but they goddamn owe it after the last one 
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Jul 11, 2011 04:01
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CHARONS BOAT RIDER posted:Art is a video game.
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Jul 12, 2011 22:44
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BUSINESS CATTE 2.0 posted:the culture series is some of the best scifi you can get it's weird, i like banks' books but at the same time i never feel emotionally connected to his characters at all.
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Jul 19, 2011 02:59
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Trig Discipline posted:it's weird, i like banks' books but at the same time i never feel emotionally connected to his characters at all. science_fiction.txt
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Jul 19, 2011 03:03
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i think i read canticle for leibowitz, but i can't remember what it was about at all and maybe i'm just thinking of a rose for ecclesiastes
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Jul 19, 2011 03:05
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lost was intermittently good and mostly fun to watch and then just went bluhbluhbluh and started smearing poop all over itself in the last twenty minutes of the show
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Jul 20, 2011 13:17
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qirex posted:Started Singularity Sky last night, never read any Stross before because he seemed really goony but it was like $2 used so I figured I'd check it out. it's basically about a super-advanced space 4chan
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Jul 20, 2011 13:18
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axolotl farmer posted:Worst final episode: Lost or Battlestar Galactica? i'd say lost just because the dropoff in quality, and hence the disappointment, was so abrupt. lost stayed pretty entertaining to me all the way through, and even up until ~15 minutes from the end of the last episode i thought they were building toward a fairly interesting conclusion and then WHAMMO bsg was basically a long slow slide from being pretty amazing mid-season 3 down to a sad wet farting noise at the end
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Jul 20, 2011 17:48
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Kirk posted:lol you're one of "those" people yup once lindelof and cuse started giving interviews where they said "it's really all about the characters maaaaaaan" it was instantly apparent that they had written themselves into a corner they didn't know how to get out of also, that lovely ending was lovely from a character point of view as well
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Jul 20, 2011 19:30
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mr_jim posted:if you end up getting probated for drunk posting, i'm down with this plan.
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Jul 22, 2011 01:10
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cowboys and aliens looks like it will be dumb as hell and i will love every single second of it
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Jul 25, 2011 23:11
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CHARONS BOAT RIDER posted:The worse it is the better it will be basically p much
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Jul 25, 2011 23:33
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i read and liked late heinlein when i was a little too young to really get how hosed up it was, now i look back at it and holy poo poo i wonder if he has a granddaughter and if she ever just thinks "hey i think my grandpa wanted to gently caress me" and then just spends the rest of the day barfing
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Aug 27, 2011 03:42
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rotor posted:there's some weird story of his i cant remember where some space boyscouts are stranded on some planet as part of their survival training and something gets hosed up and they're marooned there for years and omg bootstraps tunnel in the sky
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Aug 27, 2011 03:44
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rotor posted:yes, i said it was heinlein already, there's no need to belabor the point
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Aug 27, 2011 03:56
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that book came up when the dude from slate was interviewing me about my album. he asked if i read a lot of apocalyptic fiction and i rattled off a few that i'd read including that one, and he was all "lol you mean the one where the scary future world is ruled by black people?" and i laughed my rear end off because i hadn't even remembered that
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Aug 27, 2011 04:52
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Coffee Quack posted:piers. loving. sucks.
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Aug 27, 2011 13:40
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is piers anthony actually creepy? i just remember him as being excruciatingly bad. maybe i blocked those bits from memory, in which case tyvm brain
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Aug 27, 2011 14:07
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oh right but on the creepy/horrible axis lol l. ron hubbard
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Aug 27, 2011 14:08
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duTrieux posted:*in the terminal bookstore, 5 minutes before boarding* lol also i didn't read that book so if that's the creepiest one that would be why i didn't remember him being creepy. i read like the first three xanth books and said "this is garbage" then read nothing else by him for twenty years. friends kept telling me that the incarnations series was totally different and amazing so i finally read it and SURPRISE, it's not. i mean it's no doubt his best work but i'm sure franklin dropped a deuce in the cat box once that he thinks was his "best" too
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Aug 28, 2011 02:59
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qirex posted:space mining/colonization in general doesn't really make much sense I mean what are we going to do with an extra 8 trillion tons of iron you narrowminded fool! if we can magnetize that we can erase every vhs tape in the galaxy!
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Aug 28, 2011 22:24
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rotor posted:likewise with farts
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Aug 28, 2011 23:38
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z0ratio fartboner posted:reading Fire and Ice by George RRRRRR martin after watching the series and it's pretty impressive how closely the series stayed to the book with the exception of making most characters appropriately older and better looking
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Aug 28, 2011 23:41
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i mean tyrion is repeatedly referred to as monstrous and disfigured in the books, and peter dinklage ain't that. i would go so far as to say that if i was going to get it on with a male dwarf he'd be pretty high on the list likewise brienne and a bunch of other characters - supposed to be uggos but we can't have that on tv now can we
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Aug 28, 2011 23:43
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Kirk posted:i'm a big gay homo that likes big ships flying around the galaxy 
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Aug 28, 2011 23:48
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haveblue posted:is fire upon the deep/deepness in the sky good and what order should I read them in i like them, and it doesn't matter what order really. there's only one character in common, the books happen thousands of years apart, and the events of one aren't important to understanding the events of the other
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Aug 30, 2011 17:16
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btw there's a new one coming out in a month or so if you didn't already know that
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Aug 30, 2011 17:45
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:is there a name for that style of drawing faces kricfalusism
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Sep 9, 2011 14:46
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i just read the book ready player one by ernest cline. the plot description sounded awful but the reviews were so good that i just had to check it out. turns out the reviewers were idiots, it's not very good welp that's my story
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Sep 18, 2011 14:19
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Bedshaped posted:i usually do a bit of research (talking w/ friends, internet) before i buy a book but i just bought this from the cover alone: i liked it
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Sep 20, 2011 17:11
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breaking bad owns all of the bones
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Sep 20, 2011 21:15
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youre poasting
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Sep 20, 2011 21:16
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reallyprettymad posted:I havent read any of his new stuff, but i remember hearing he literally said something like "im not writing sci fi any more cause its all pretty much reality now" and imo thats kinda cool "welp everything i wrote about came true, and there's no possible way i could have a new idea about anything"
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Sep 21, 2011 16:58
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yeah but that was happening fifty years ago i mean i understand what gibson's saying and it is kinda cool, but it doesn't really justify his crappy new books
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axolotl farmer posted:I really liked Pattern Recognition and count it as one of his best books actually haven't read it, actually i read spook country though and i found it really disappointing. it kept seeming like it was on the edge of turning into a cool story but then nope
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