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I just watched Interstellar and it reminded me that I do enjoy myself a weird sci-fi book every now and again.
You should read Stone, by Adam Roberts.
It's about a post-scarcity pangalactic nanotech utopia where everyone's happy except the protagonist, who is imprisoned inside a star for being the only living human who's ever committed murder.
And (s)he gets sprung.
Everyone is as hedonistic and bizarre as you'd expect immortal jobless humans to be. There is a nose-sex planet.
He also wrote a book about Earth having perpendicular gravity, and a future where people get decapitated for their crimes and then become a headless undercaste.
This dude is lots of fun, read his books (the science isn't always solid through and through but it's usually a decent handwave).
You should read Stone, by Adam Roberts.
It's about a post-scarcity pangalactic nanotech utopia where everyone's happy except the protagonist, who is imprisoned inside a star for being the only living human who's ever committed murder.
And (s)he gets sprung.
Everyone is as hedonistic and bizarre as you'd expect immortal jobless humans to be. There is a nose-sex planet.
He also wrote a book about Earth having perpendicular gravity, and a future where people get decapitated for their crimes and then become a headless undercaste.
This dude is lots of fun, read his books (the science isn't always solid through and through but it's usually a decent handwave).
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I saw him across a party once and handwaved and he looked away and never handwaved back
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Science is such a bitch.
And then I shall base my subsequent political affiliations from the politics within the books.
How goes the traitor project
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
here:
does Australia have a nose sex party
Poorly as I have done nothing will all my sweet sample data as I started making keychain tools to consume it and put it in the format I needed it and then because that was boring I got distracted by the craptitude of life followed by the obsession of Destiny.
I hope to do something more meaningful on it over the giftmas break
EDIT: Also the secret words people have sent me have ranged from the predictable to the bizarre.
So many I missed. All so good.
Available on kindle.
Published by Hachette.
Amazon 1, Hachette 0
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
it has a no sex party
America has an 'oh nos, sex' party.
Your political party's emblem could be a nose with a penis inserted up one nostril, a nipple up the other.
Not as yet.
But at the same time, Objectivists aren't called the "Rape and Monologue Party" so maybe I will coin a more exciting term
keep going
So, i'm doing these videos on "hidden gems of gaming", overlooked or obscure games...
My next one is on a game i ddin't like that much and it's growing on me.
Weird!
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Malthusians are still around?
and there were beans
like god intended
Which sounds like a cool idea.
Except that it is insane.
Have you ever heard of a game called Planescape: Torment?
I'm a little Malthusianish.
If we don't, someday, go a little bit China on people's reproductive rights, that it'll probably become a big problem.
sounds swag to me
they need a beer fountain
lol also bed
the rock is like
the coolest dude in the world
I GET THIS JOKE
this makes me feel squirmy and uncomfortable
He is the peoples' dude.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Insane because it's moving the capitol or insane because it's being pitched like Dubai on steroids and it's going to be the biggest bestest city in the world?
zomg
As it turns out it was weird and no particularly compelling and I can't really recommend it. I don't really even know what it was supposed to be all about.
Edit: Oh, and the third book has been delayed because of the author's wife's ill health. Which I find to be a personal insult.
It's just calling out for a Too Many Cooks parody remix
Also a political party named the Sex Party.
Sadly not the Canadian ones so no snow Leopards.