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drwhat posted:

what's the rhizzpinion on china mieville, i couldn't really be bothered to get through more than the first chapter of perdido street station where the lady with a bug for a head is giving her dude a bj, i just kind of tossed it in the corner and that was it



this article made me kinda want to read him http://monthlyreview.org/2016/02/01/socialism-and-fantasy/

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glomper_stomper posted:

i've been meaning to read some contemporary sci-fi. have any other recommendations?

aurora by kim stanley robinson is my fav of the last year or two because i'm the kind of guy who likes to see someone shit all over a longstanding sf trope in an interesting way

but i also really liked iron council and embassytown so maybe you don't wanna ask me

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#3324
Occupied Aztlan
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How contemporary? Ursula le Guin (left hand of darkness, the dispossessed) and Iain M Banks (rip)(use of weapons, look to windward, the rest of the culture series) are both great, and atwood's maddaddam series just finished and is supposed to be amazing
#3325
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Good to see that inbetween calling every great author shit in the reading thread everyone's reading the actually good wizard authors for children.
#3326
Poronto
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a gay wizard lived in the fag future rimming his faggot gay wizard boyfriend and eating the poo poo, like ice cream, and pushed the fist and the entire arm inside the annus, and it hurt, but they liked it. Lol
#3327
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i read ksr's 2312 and it was kind of bad but the mars trilogy is really good if you have a quite long attention span and can track the actions, thoughts, feelings and motivations of more than three people at once, and the three californias trilogy is really really good indeed especially the wild shore
#3328
mt.real
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i dunno, i tried red mars a few months ago and sometimes it would just be 20 pages of descriptions of various engineering works on mars with no plot or character development. on the way to mars, it was all character, and that was great - then somewhere about halfway through the book it became like reading a textbook. i guess if i had stuck with it maybe characters would have developed again, eventually. not really a sign of someone who is good at writing a book ... but i keep hearing all these people saying it's so good he's so good etc etc. maybe i should try again, or another book
#3329
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you should try another genre, really, or at least understand that a lot of the people reading science fiction don't really give a shit about characterization (including me, most of the time, aurora had exactly one memorable character not built out of cardboard but I still think it was Great) and calibrate accordingly. maybe read gene wolfe, he's awesome at everything even if he's catholic as fuck and writes the way you'd expect of someone born in 1931
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Keven posted:

Good to see that inbetween calling every great author shit in the reading thread everyone's reading the actually good wizard authors for children.


I only hate on "educated" Americans terribly crippled tastes and the likes Pynchon, DFW, Franzen, Tao Lin, Jarret Kobek. I would never shit on romance novels or queer wizard fiction, for instance, some of my favourite genres

#3331
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Didn't get a job I was counting on. I'll be in DYTD
#3332
Poronto
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when i was little one of the topical things that came on the current-affairs-for-kids shows like Newsround were the death squads in El Salvador who went around shooting street kids and while wondering "why do they go around shooting street kids" i had a horrified vision of a El Salvadorian saturday morning cartoon with the theme tune going "death squaaaaaad..Let's Clean Up This Town!" and ugly brown kiddies being picturesquely blown away by the big muscly death squad heroes. 8 year old me was woke as fuck
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#3334
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check out the dank metro system u get with full communism:





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drwhat posted:

what's the rhizzpinion on china mieville, i couldn't really be bothered to get through more than the first chapter of perdido street station where the lady with a bug for a head is giving her dude a bj, i just kind of tossed it in the corner and that was it


same but for all science fiction after too

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animedad posted:

Keven posted:

Good to see that inbetween calling every great author shit in the reading thread everyone's reading the actually good wizard authors for children.

I only hate on "educated" Americans terribly crippled tastes and the likes Pynchon, DFW, Franzen, Tao Lin, Jarret Kobek. I would never shit on romance novels or queer wizard fiction, for instance, some of my favourite genres



Pynchon is not like those other retards.

Also LF taught me that reading talented right-wing trolls like Céline and Houellebecq is good.

#3337
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i think reading + enjoying writers like celine and hollaback probably says some bad things about someone but i read + enjoyed dune which is pretty fascist in its own way so we can have our struggle session at the same time
#3338
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Maybe you can like art without altering your entire life and thoughts around it..?
#3339
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Open car trains are I guess better for throughput but you get to feel like an insane badass going from car to car on your New York style train and also it gives each car it's own "vibe" (homeless, smell, backpack, group of students, etc) which is helpful.
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c_man posted:

i think reading + enjoying writers like celine and hollaback probably says some bad things about someone but i read + enjoyed dune which is pretty fascist in its own way so we can have our struggle session at the same time

Celine was a fascist but his novels are more misanthropic than anything else.

#3341
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i bet if u showed those pics to the average american they would just act skeptical and be like, obviously it's all a propaganda mockup and nobody in the dprk actually rides around in modern trains better than our own, which kinda shows how american propaganda is sometimes merely as sophisticated as people who think the moon landing is fake and yet people still believe it
#3342
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I bet a weird fascist dictatorship couldn't have good trains - people would famously say that for example Mussolini was really good in every way except for the bad trains.
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#3344
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Keven posted:

I bet a weird fascist dictatorship couldn't have good trains - people would famously say that for example Mussolini was really good in every way except for the bad trains.



Except Mussolini took credit for rail infrastructure built before he rose to power, the timetables under fascism were a total shitshow and "the trains run on time" was an actual documented fascist propaganda campaign that westerners love to repeat because westerners love fascism and want to hold hands and kiss it. fuck youuuuuu

#3345
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Damn sounds like this guy should be getting sued for the profits of the film made about his life story, because of how much he cares about trains. I'm just kidding here so please don't tell me about the factual reality of the guy who's getting sued by the mta.
#3346
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jesus christ, ive been owned beyond belief by the cool and aloof nazi clickbait writer
#3347
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i love trains almost as much as i hate boring and pretentious ";iturature" that's inevitably about nothing besides the libedo of shitty 35 year old men, and i really love trains
#3348
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train love
#3349
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aerdil posted:

i bet if u showed those pics to the average american they would just act skeptical and be like, obviously it's all a propaganda mockup and nobody in the dprk actually rides around in modern trains better than our own, which kinda shows how american propaganda is sometimes merely as sophisticated as people who think the moon landing is fake and yet people still believe it



http://travel.cnn.com/touring-north-korea-whats-real-whats-fake-487216/

#3350
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what's fuckin surreal to me is that western tourists are so brainwashed by propaganda that they can walk around a metropolitan area in pyongyang and think everything they see is staged and everyone is an actor or a brainwashed simpleton, unlike themselves of course
#3351
Dont Mess With Sucess
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They were very careful to keep us confined to the areas of the city that had access to universal healthcare, and that were not littered with racist cops and cigarette butts like a normal urban environment
#3352
chickeon
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it's cool how closely that piece resembles a first person account of severe psychosis
#3353
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shriekingviolet posted:

Keven posted:

I bet a weird fascist dictatorship couldn't have good trains - people would famously say that for example Mussolini was really good in every way except for the bad trains.

Except Mussolini took credit for rail infrastructure built before he rose to power, the timetables under fascism were a total shitshow and "the trains run on time" was an actual documented fascist propaganda campaign that westerners love to repeat because westerners love fascism and want to hold hands and kiss it. fuck youuuuuu



What a stupid fucking thing to post. Really shocking. Typical know-it-all-ism that unfortunately has become so common on this forum under father holes.

#3354
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You are unable to understand me or my posting.
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#3356
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i think i'm going to go skateboarding for the first time in 12 years
#3357
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don't worry, my skating is anti-imperialist
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#3359
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my wife yelled at me for buying old spice soap because their branding is misogynist
#3360
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littlegreenpills posted:

my wife yelled at me for buying old spice soap because their branding is misogynist



start buying axe