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Science Fictional 12 years, 5 months agoAnyone read anything by CJ Cherryh? Or have strong feelings any which way on Asimov, Herbert, Heinlein? Or read Neal Stephenson or William Gibson?
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Asimov is awesome. Heinlein is good although harder to get into in my opinion first scifi book i ever read was citizen of the galaxy. I love Herbert. LOVE LOVE LOVE. #strongfeelings
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Love, love, love CJ Cherryh. Stephenson routinely blows my mind. I run hot and cold on Gibson, and have little opinion on the others.
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I’m so torn on Asimov–his novels, especially the Robots and Empire–they’re just so DRY. But I adore his short stories. The only Heinlein I ever really liked was The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
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I love Gibson and Herbert, didn’t really like Heinlein, all I remember from when I read Asimov was that I liked his writing but could only take it in small doses. Stephenson is next on my list of books to read.
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You have to view any of the classics as historical documents, I think, because I find a lot of them full of really outdated attitudes. I like Heinlein the best of those three, but some of his stuff makes me cringe!
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I live in Seattle, and I have this fantasy where I’m on a bus, or in a Starbucks, or something, reading my old worn copy of Snow Crash and then I see Neal Stephenson and I tell him that I’ve read every book he’s ever published and the first time I read Snow Crash I didn’t eat sleep or pee for 18 hours until I finished it. He gives me a hug or a…[Read more]
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Ooh! I JUST started reading Cyteen, and I’m loving Cherryh’s style now that I’ve gotten through the incredibly-dry-prologue-that-took-far-too-long-to-read-despite-its-brevity…. But I’m really excited to devour this mammoth of a novel now.
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Science Fictional 12 years, 5 months agoAnyone watched the anime Noien?
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Science Fictional 12 years, 5 months agoI am fairly new to the scifi realm of life. About five years ago I found this book “Night Watch” & liked the cover so I bought it. Turned out to be the first scifi book of my life. (fyi, I highly recommend this series by Sergey Lukyanenko…the films are quite good as well).
Since then, I’ve fallen in love with Firefly & Doctor Who. Still not…[Read more]
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I like to watch shows with Michio Kaku and act like I actually understand what he’s talking about when most of it goes way over my head
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you should read his books. he does a pretty good job of making it all make sense (because i also am usually like WTF are you saying MICHIO??!).
“Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel” is the book i am going to read next.
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that’s a really good book (it has Dr. Who’s phone box on the cover!). i sometimes have trouble with the higher sciences (understanding the actual math) but i love reading about the concepts, and Kaku does a great job of explaining it for those of us who enjoy the mental exercise of speculating “could someone escape a black hole, or what would…[Read more]
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oh really? wtf! my book cover is something different…aka the non-tardis on the cover edition.
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the hardcover american version has the tardis jumping from one wormhole to another: http://amzn.to/wv9At
the paperback and international versions are different, i think-
i remember liking the chapter when they discuss how the tardis could be larger on the inside than the outside…whoa. fun science. :)
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I read Parallel Worlds which was really interesting. I went through a phase where I read like six books in a row about string theory and quantum mechanics, and then I burned out that topic for a while. The math parts make no sense to me, but I understand the concepts that he brings up. But I may need to find that book, it has force fields,…[Read more]
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Ohhh! Canada 12 years, 5 months agogot my census in the mail today. anyone know if there’s a way for them to count me as a queer person, sort of like the stickers americans used last year?
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lol You could just scrawl on it “I’M GAY!!!” for them to take note, although I don’t think that’d be official. Still…that’s a funny thought…(to me)
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It doesn’t look like it. I just filled mine out and it seemed like it didn’t have any real questions.
The most interesting thing it asked for was my birthday.
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I filled out the online version, but there’s a space at the end for comments/concerns. Unfortunately, it only let me fill in 160 words, which wasn’t nearly enough space for all my complaints and suggestions…which somebody better read…
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thanks guys, the census sounds severely underwhelming.
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It was…
I just used the comments section to ramble on about/hopefully coherently express my feelings of anger over the lack of long form census and the complete uselessness of the short form census questions.
Maybe I should have added a P.S. I’m gay at the end.
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only 4.5 million people are receiving the National Household Survey” (aka the new long form) and even then, its voluntary.
You can order a paper version of the short form though, and maybe draw Harper a nice gay rainbow.
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When I filled mine out, I included my girlfriend (gotta be living in the same house, though) and I as common-law partners in a same sex relaysh.
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I was super bummed that I couldn’t do long-form. My parents did, but I didn’t, so I thought that I missed a step or something. Thanks for clarifying the reality.
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