Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
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My god man, have some dignity, it's like saying you like kim stanley robinson!
monkeys ate my brain
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.
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How can you not like dune! It kicks ass, if only for the bit about "I must not fear"
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I'll have a look at richard morgan, never heard of him myself.
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And I forgot william gibson, but if you like that sort of thing, you'd know. Plus I had to spend exorbital amounts of money at the library when I forgot to return it...
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clarke was always pretty crap, and pete f hamilton, airport novelist also. My god man, have some dignity, it's like saying you like kim stanley robinson!
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Making up aliens and then talking to them in books, is like distorting your image in a mirror for a good old bit of navel gazing with your distorted self. So if a author can make up a convincingly alien race and then write about them, I appreciate that.
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Which reminds me: Neal Stephenson's first novel, Snow Crash. Also a classic.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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How can you not like dune! It kicks ass, if only for the bit about "I must not fear"
The first Dune book is one of the few books I've given up on, didn't manage to get past a hundred pages before I thought "wow, this is poo". And it takes a lot for me to not read a book.
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I'll have a look at richard morgan, never heard of him myself.
Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and his other book (whose name I forget at the moment) are very good indeed. Market Forces is OTOH pretty dumb, but it is a rewrite of a book he wrote when he was sixteen or something.
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Which reminds me: Neal Stephenson's first novel, Snow Crash. Also a classic.
Bah, I've sworn never to read any Stephenson again. Cryptonomicon was alright, I really enjoyed the Diamond Age, but they both suffered from the same thing, missing last chapter syndrome. The man cannot write an ending to save his life, both books just cut off with half of the threads in the story unresolved, incredibly, incredibly frustrating. I'm not falling for that again, and supposedly his latest trilogy suffers from authorial masturbation which doesn't make me want to read them either.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
POI THEO(R)IST
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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and yet, you like hamilton? I never really appreciated technical detail in sci-fi. Maybe in a few years people will be like wow! You got it right! I will be like: Wow you're novel was dull and absolutely accurate about the super slow pace of progress. Well done. Unimaginative idiot. Maybe peter hamilton is not as unimaginative as this, but real life is. Where are those thinking dolphins with computers in their brains? Nowhere cos real life is super boring in that regard.
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william gibson:
But he has good ideas. And some of the brain stuff was more realistic than the computer stuff. Which made it worth while. Again, who wants to hear about crontab root exploits when we could be reading about sexy robot ladies fighting each other in a virtual world?
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Detail, i don't mind. Tolkien levels of detail, I do mind. And dullness I cannot stand. See above.
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Honestly, snow crash is the first of his books. And still the best. Don't bother with anything else.
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and while I'm here, bruce sterling... very good. Couldn't name my favourate off the top of my head thou.
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I can't say I usually analyse why I like / dislike books. Especially when I read most of these when I was like, 14, but I can say one thing, I like sci-fi that has the same silly colourful-ness as the fifth element, but more so, and better.
I mean, technical is fine, but you'll get over it, when the future continues to disappoint you.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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