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Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson
Let's kick off the new year with some sci-fi. This one's been kicking around on the list for a bit and it's a good pick, so let's go ahead and tackle it.
We can reconvene next Wednesday to discuss.
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johnnyFive · 51 days ago · link ·
The design/layout of that site is just about the worst. Here is the story in a non-obnoxious format.
blackbootz · 45 days ago · link ·
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francopoli · 51 days ago · link ·
I just finished Moving Mars by Greg Bear. Not a bad book. There was an interesting "Woo Woo" mechanic at the end.
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francopoli · 51 days ago · link ·
KSR gets into the weeds and wants the reader to sniff his farts and believe its a bacon scented candle. He's not a bad writer, but Bear is much better at developing a character. Now that I have a Kindle and access to the Library, I should sit down and re-read Green Mars. It was 20ish years ago and I barely remember it.
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I dunno, man. KSR writes shit that I should be all-the-fuck over and I can't finish it. Red Mars was a long exploration of "I've thought about this but not about that and you don't get to either" (sure! Everyone just stops tracking time for half an hour a night! That's totally going to work!) and The Years of Rice and Salt was an alternate history in which... fuckall happens and any event is entirely quixotic and not based on any particular cause and effect but you'll fucking read it because ALTERNATE HISTORY BITCH. My main problem with Greg Bear is that he has a helluva time not ending every book or story with an utter and total cataclysm. It's like, an optimistic Greg Bear book has the literal end of the world in it. A pessimistic Greg Bear book fucking sucks all of time and space into a singularity causing the extinction of the entire astral plane. But, if you can accept that shit is going to go stare-into-the-singularity bad every time, he's thought-provoking.