i do not get why you guys come down on some posters but not others
i'm out
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If you're leaving a thread because you're upset that someone said something mean about a book
That might be a hint about what side of that divide you're on
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
i have tried reading foundations and idk it's like
i study this super smart psychohistory field, ok maybe i'll get arrested ok the founder is sort of charismatic, ok fastforward we're on a new planet making wikipedia and the planet doesn't have a lot of precious metals or something
i am finding it pretty much the opposite of gripping
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My main memory of foundation was the use of the term psychology throughout. When he was describing sociology.
Secondary memory: The word sardonic used twice a page.
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i have tried reading foundations and idk it's like
i study this super smart psychohistory field, ok maybe i'll get arrested ok the founder is sort of charismatic, ok fastforward we're on a new planet making wikipedia and the planet doesn't have a lot of precious metals or something
i am finding it pretty much the opposite of gripping
Did you catch the parts where nerds use the power of knowledge to predict the future and foil their enemies?
Did that not grip you chu? Are you even a nerd chu?
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i have tried reading foundations and idk it's like
i study this super smart psychohistory field, ok maybe i'll get arrested ok the founder is sort of charismatic, ok fastforward we're on a new planet making wikipedia and the planet doesn't have a lot of precious metals or something
i am finding it pretty much the opposite of gripping
Did you catch the parts where nerds use the power of knowledge to predict the future and foil their enemies?
Did that not grip you chu? Are you even a nerd chu?
That's what makes the various Silent Hunter series so much fun. Killing motherfuckers with math.
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Anyway, screw Foundation.
Go read The Slow Regard of Silent Things..
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
I never read Asimov. I read real authors like John Norman.
Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
i have tried reading foundations and idk it's like
i study this super smart psychohistory field, ok maybe i'll get arrested ok the founder is sort of charismatic, ok fastforward we're on a new planet making wikipedia and the planet doesn't have a lot of precious metals or something
i am finding it pretty much the opposite of gripping
But you didn't even get to the part where they control the masses with a fake religion they invented solely to control them!
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
I'm pretty sure nobody has sex in the entire Asimov library.
You never even realize they're actually having sex until your second readthrough
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
I'm pretty sure nobody has sex in the entire Asimov library.
Wow, the first named female character and female line of dialogue in Foundation is on page 194. I definitely did not notice that when I was 14.
are there really that many characters or much dialogue in foundation
I was recently introduced to the Foundation series via audiobook.
Yeah, there are at least a few male characters. Women are specifically mentioned as wives only in the first book. The first major female character in the series is very stereotypical, and is asked her fucking weight by another character, and of course does all the cooking. It's kind of depressing how sexist that series is, but I guess it can't help the era it was written in. Still I guess i'd have expected speculative fiction to speculate a little more equality? Maybe I hope for too much.
Oh god no. Old school sci-fi is ridiculously sexist.
EDIT: Like, you have to wait for the new wave for anything like cultural awareness in sci-fi. Before then it was written by old white heterosexual men from the 1900s-1950s or so, with the obvious outcome of that.
Part of the reason it's called new wave is because of a move towards diversity, cultural awareness and away from just white scientists in gimmicky stories based on hard sci-fi premises.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
I'm pretty sure nobody has sex in the entire Asimov library.
I never read Asimov. I read real authors like John Norman.
Mods, I demand a Gorean thread.
Actually, I read maybe the first two Gor books. They were pretty... Blah but not quite as filled with rampant fetish as I had expected, apparently that happens more, later. The last thing that happened was suddenly there were big insect aliens controlling the society living under a mountain.
I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
I'm pretty sure nobody has sex in the entire Asimov library.
I'm pretty sure a woman has sex with a humanoid household robot in Asimov's short story "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
Why yes, I'm at home all alone on a Saturday night; why do you ask?
Also there is nothing gripping in Foundation. At all. Not character or plot wise anyway. It's a old-school sci-fi short-story collection so it's all about the idea.
It's basically (at the start anyway) just a bunch of random gimmick/trick-based short stories all centred around a rather interesting concept (ie - psycohistory).
It has another interesting idea eventually (The Mule) but then it kinda wanders off into what is, imo, some bad choices and dumbness.
And then like 30 years later Asimov decided to write prequels and some such and frankly, why are you even reading a full length Asimov novel anyway?
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I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
I'm pretty sure nobody has sex in the entire Asimov library.
I'm pretty sure a woman has sex with a humanoid household robot in Asimov's short story "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
Why yes, I'm at home all alone on a Saturday night; why do you ask?
I believe textually they only kiss. But now I remember (and with the aid of Google) a woman does have sex with a robot in Robots of Dawn. So there you go.
I read about 20 pages of the foundation books before losing interest. I was probably way too young at the time, I'd probably appreciate them now. But HBO is doing a series based on them so...
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
I'm pretty sure nobody has sex in the entire Asimov library.
I'm pretty sure a woman has sex with a humanoid household robot in Asimov's short story "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
Why yes, I'm at home all alone on a Saturday night; why do you ask?
I believe textually they only kiss. But now I remember (and with the aid of Google) a woman does have sex with a robot in Robots of Dawn. So there you go.
Bogert frowned. "I don't need any. It's obvious on the face of it that we can't have a robot loose which makes love to his mistress, if you don't mind the pun."
"Love! Peter, you sicken me. You really don't understand? That machine had to obey the First Law. He couldn't allow harm to come to a human being, and harm was coming to Claire Belmont through her own sense of inadequacy. So he made love to her, since what woman would fail to appreciate the compliment of being able to stir passion in a machine-in a cold, soulless machine. And he opened the curtains that night deliberately, that the others might see and envy-without any risk possible to Claire's marriage. I think it was clever of Tony-"
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If you're leaving a thread because you're upset that someone said something mean about a book
That might be a hint about what side of that divide you're on
I believe they used Faith of the Heart to overcome every obstacle.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
i am finding it pretty much the opposite of gripping
Secondary memory: The word sardonic used twice a page.
Your cardboard box and bottle of wild turkey are waiting outside.
Did that not grip you chu? Are you even a nerd chu?
You are one of God's own and you are cherished.
*hugs for 15 seconds*
You forgot the hot pocket.
It buurrrnssss usssss
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
That's what makes the various Silent Hunter series so much fun. Killing motherfuckers with math.
Go read The Slow Regard of Silent Things..
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
No matter how gripping you find the series, it's certain to be more gripping with gorgeous actors having sex.
The long awaited erotic novel from Gene Wolfe
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
You never even realize they're actually having sex until your second readthrough
The only thread to die faster then an anime thread.
Oh god no. Old school sci-fi is ridiculously sexist.
EDIT: Like, you have to wait for the new wave for anything like cultural awareness in sci-fi. Before then it was written by old white heterosexual men from the 1900s-1950s or so, with the obvious outcome of that.
Part of the reason it's called new wave is because of a move towards diversity, cultural awareness and away from just white scientists in gimmicky stories based on hard sci-fi premises.
Which is exactly my fetish, so you know
I'm pretty sure a woman has sex with a humanoid household robot in Asimov's short story "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
Why yes, I'm at home all alone on a Saturday night; why do you ask?
It's basically (at the start anyway) just a bunch of random gimmick/trick-based short stories all centred around a rather interesting concept (ie - psycohistory).
It has another interesting idea eventually (The Mule) but then it kinda wanders off into what is, imo, some bad choices and dumbness.
And then like 30 years later Asimov decided to write prequels and some such and frankly, why are you even reading a full length Asimov novel anyway?
really don't wanna. wah.
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Someone made an absurdly impressive Daenerys in DA3
Anyway I enjoyed it as a child but haven't read it again since I was about 18
makes the dude I just made in DA2 look like ass
Ummm Daenerys has violet eyes in the books and Emilia Clarke has like, blue/grey eyes IRL. Faker gamer girls ruin everything.