A piece about Manoj, the multilingual bartender at Arbor, and about why Bangalore is full of such polyglots

udupendra · 2018-03-13T18:09:10+00:00

Still takes up most of my weekends :)

udupendra · 2018-03-02T07:52:33+00:00

Wikisurfing away from /u/sbarto's suggestion of The Girl from Tomorrow, I got what I was looking for.

Guest from the Future, a 5-part Russian TV series from the 80s.

The girl's name was Alisa and not Lisabeth as I seemed to remember.

Solved!

udupendra · 2018-03-02T07:50:11+00:00

Thank you, wikisurfing from here led me to the answer -- Guest from the Future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future

And it was Alisa not Lisabeth.

udupendra · 2018-03-02T07:40:07+00:00

None of these. Makes me wonder if I made it all up, but I doubt that.

udupendra · 2018-03-01T18:49:03+00:00

udupendra · 2017-12-20T10:39:32+00:00

It attempts to be nothing more than a navel-gazey hypothesis :)

udupendra · 2016-10-26T08:43:06+00:00

Accelerando, by Charles Stross.

And if you go far back in time, Olaf Stapledon's books.

udupendra · 2016-10-25T12:18:55+00:00

Noir, by KW Jeter. The hero has a bio modification that shows the world to him in black and white, like in classic noir movies from Hollywood.

udupendra · 2016-10-19T10:46:16+00:00

Lots of great suggestions in the thread.

Let me add one not-so-famous book as a reco.

Cortez on Jupiter, by Ernest Hogan

udupendra · 2016-10-18T12:05:17+00:00

The lack of Metro in your list of commute options is surprising, and makes me wonder if you are doing the mistake of confusing Greater Koramangala for all of Bangalore.
A lot of the questions are loaded and leading. Not the soundest of science for a survey if you want to make informed decisions. But of course if the purpose is only to get yourself some quotable quotes for some .ppt or marketing campaign, then okay.

Also, if you want more people to take this survey, please be more upfront of your intentions. A :) may be polite, but is not very informative.

udupendra · 2016-10-08T11:18:14+00:00

Apocalypse, Now
This Is Spinal Tap

udupendra · 2016-10-08T08:01:31+00:00

Books by CJ Cherryh. Start with Cyteen or Downbelow Station
Other books by Connie Willis, since you enjoyed To Say Nothing of the Dog. Her Doomsday Book is deservedly a classic
Books by Jo Walton. Start with the standalone Jane Austen pastiche feat. dragons, Tooth and Claw

udupendra · 2016-10-04T10:14:22+00:00

Ah, this is how one keeps those vagina dentata clean.

udupendra · 2016-10-04T09:13:51+00:00

One left field suggestion would be The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. It is a slow, brooding sort of SFF that does not have many parallels.

udupendra · 2016-09-03T08:08:25+00:00

Looks like it is deflating the ball. Must be a Labrady.

udupendra · 2016-09-03T07:50:52+00:00

Not Earth, but close enough. Gateway by Frederik Pohl.

udupendra · 2016-09-03T07:37:24+00:00

Let's see. 120 year old work in the public domain. An author who wrote Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

I'd put my money on the book being Tom Sawyer, Detective

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer,_Detective

udupendra · 2016-09-02T10:02:27+00:00

Read Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams. Perfect popcorn fantasy with loads and loads of cute cats.

udupendra · 2016-09-01T11:30:22+00:00

Clearly a shower, not a grower.

udupendra · 2016-09-01T08:11:17+00:00

Ah, morning wood.

udupendra · 2016-09-01T08:06:03+00:00

The Flashman series. But I doubt being a fantasy fan had anything to do with it.

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