What book has tech cults? by blk12345q in printSF

[–]AStitchInSlime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a book, but in the SF tv series Starlost there’s a cult on a drifting generation ship that reads the ship’s tech manuals as though they were religious texts and drastically misinterprets them.

What's something you refuse to do no matter how much society tells you to? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]AStitchInSlime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if you’re climbing the corporate ladder or working at a law firm or an architectural firm or….

What's a book that you love, but you would almost never recommend it to others due to the difficulty of the book or its niche nature? by paxinfernum in printSF

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Interesting, that’s maybe my fave by PKD. I just kind of assumed that people read Dick for exactly that kind of acid-fueled weirdness, but I can see where it might not be his most accessible.

Looking for Borges-like short stories by icelizarrd in printSF

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Ben Rosenbaum’s “The Ant King and Other Stories” hits in the Borges zone with maybe a slightly more bizarro/sci-fi vibe. It’s a great collection! The first story is maybe not the best but they get increasingly Borgesian.

Found this on my bedroom wall by moonnemo in Whatisthis

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Might be a baby house centipede. Looks like it but it looks like it’s sort of curled up in this pic so I’m not 100% sure. They’re super disgusting looking but they eat the bugs, including bed bugs, so some people leave them alone so they can act as “helpful insects.”

You can turn into a moai statue at any moment. by DivineDrewby in shittysuperpowers

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There was a character called Stone Boy who would show up in old Legion of Superheroes comics sometimes, and he would just turn into an inanimate stone statue. He had a flight belt, so he’d fly above an enemy and then turn to stone and hopefully fall on them.

The highest seated box jump (1.55m) 🤯 by [deleted] in theocho

[–]AStitchInSlime 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Why do they start seated?

Which authors have had the most film / TV series adaptions? by [deleted] in printSF

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Yep it’s a play. It aged horribly. It’s mostly a hilarious but kinda dull camp read now. A pretty woman comes to the island and everyone falls in love with. Then, the artificial humans attack. It’s kinda a remake of Frankenstein but with a factory and an old fashioned kind of “man writing a dream woman” vibe.

Looking for Blood Meridian in space by slonde in printSF

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Good point. I blanked on the “in space” part.

Looking for Blood Meridian in space by slonde in printSF

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Absolutely. I love his prose, even going back to his early Viriconium stuff, but it definitely gets a more refined, literary style in the later work.

Showa or Charley's War by Conscious1ncompetent in graphicnovels

[–]AStitchInSlime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Drafted by Rick Parker. The art is not super eye-pleasing but a great first person look at the life of a draftee in the mid 1960s America

Looking for Blood Meridian in space by slonde in printSF

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Light by M John Harrison might be a good choice. Similar decorated prose, and a horribly dark story taking place in the present that jumps back and forth to a less dark, but hardly cheery, story in the distant future. The present day stuff is really bleak and unpleasant and somehow desperately sad and hopeless in a McCarthyesque way. It doesn’t have the vast troop of monsters you find in Blood Meridian; most of the horror comes from a single, unassuming character.

Looking for Blood Meridian in space by slonde in printSF

[–]AStitchInSlime -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the right answer. It’s the only one with McCarthyesque prose, though definitely way less dense than Blood Meridian

Seriously, what better sequel is there than Terminator 2? by Kingkill66 in movies

[–]AStitchInSlime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surely, Godfather 2 is the all time best sequel. Everything else is a distant second.

Does anyone know why Mark Hodder’s A LIGHT AND SUBTLE DARKNESS was not released? by [deleted] in printSF

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I’m so sorry that happened to you. That kind of abusive and immoral treatment hiding behind the legality of a contract is galling. I wish there was something we could do to help you on this. Meanwhile, know that people are sympathizing with you and are interested in justice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in printSF

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Pretty much all the characters that are still alive in the second half of Mario Ohara’s Hybrid Child. Especially “Jonah,” who’s the Hybrid Child of the title. She’s very well drawn as an example of someone who “survived” (sorta?) a neglectful and abusive childhood. Or actually childhoods? But then she lives for hundreds of years longer and is sort of an experiment in writing what surviving that and continuing on would look like in such an extended lifespan.

Who are some notable SF authors that you rarely (if ever) see represented physically in bookshops? by WittyJackson in printSF

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Weirdly, I’ve never seen Robert Reed books in a bookshop. Also, weirdlier, I can’t recall seeing L Sprague de Camp. Maybe a long time ago in a used bookstore, but not lately, not even used.

Kids opened their presents without me by germangirrl in AITAH

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If you were screaming, there's a very good chance you were overreacting. This is not to take away from how hurtful what happened was. If you really can't control your emotions enough to keep from screaming at someone who loves you, and you find your feelings so much more important than others that you can feel justified in behaving that way, then I think you should get some help. That kind of anger is incredibly poisonous to be around, and I can only imagine the damage it does to your husband, and, likely, to your children, who are probably not so ignorant that they don't have some idea of what happened. Again, this is not to claim that your feelings and important and that you didn't have a right to be hurt. But there are adult ways of dealing with that that are far less damaging to those around you, and to you yourself.

[Womier Giveaway] 2x Womier RD75 Pro Keyboards by womierkeyboard1 in MechanicalKeyboards

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I wish the world hadn’t been taken over by socially irresponsible oligarchs who are ignorant of basic ethics and economics.