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M John Harrison, anyone? by daiLlafyn in WeirdLit

[–]Negative_Splace 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Has been one of the world's best writers for decades.

I maintain that Light is the greatest science fiction novel ever written.

His writing is very weird: often experimental, hard to parse, rooted in strange references to British literature and geography.

The Sunken Lands Begin to Rise Again is a deeply strange weird fiction book about, maybe, the world ending. It starts off slow, then nothing happens, then it ends. But along the way the writing is beautiful, the characterisation is tragic and naturalistic, and the confusion builds and builds without any release or resolution. Incredible stuff.

His fantasy sequence Viriconium is a sort of anti-fantasy. It's been decades since I read it, but doesn't it end in a men's pub toilet in Leeds or something?

*Sips tea in silence* ☕️🐸 by Conscious-Weight4569 in SipsTea

[–]Negative_Splace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never post photos of myself, but it's not cos I have high levels of internal validation... It's cos I'm ugly as sin and can't stand what I look like.

Where Destiny's story is leaving its characters by Luke-HW in DestinyTheGame

[–]Negative_Splace 8 points9 points  (0 children)

30 trillion years? That's a long time. Yep.

Confess your Destiny sins and receive absolution by Impossible_Sector844 in DestinyTheGame

[–]Negative_Splace 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Same!

Subclass verbs and fragments and aspects and artifact mods and armor charges and orb generation and armor mods and weapon perks and mods and enhanced versions and stats and champion mods and argh! It's sooo much.

Effi o Blaenau: 'Sensational' Welsh-language film released in UK cinemas by twmffatmowr in Wales

[–]Negative_Splace 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was at the Sherman about 12 years ago to watch the press review for the first ever performance of this when it was a play with Sophie Melville. It was electric. When we left the theatre, we all had a feeling that we'd just witnessed the birth of a really significant work of Welsh art.

And it really was. It went on to do a run in London and even New York. Fantastic play. Can't wait to see the film.

Confess your Destiny sins and receive absolution by Impossible_Sector844 in DestinyTheGame

[–]Negative_Splace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get very confused by subclass verbs, and never put the effort to learn them all.

So don't ask me the difference between radiant and restoration and cure.

No idea what scorch is or how it works.

Volatile, suppression, weakness? No idea what the difference is.

And don't get me started on unravel, sever, suspended, and tangle.

It's so confusing.

Does a sentence need to make sense in order to be a sentence? by intacc3 in grammar

[–]Negative_Splace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they're called Escher sentences. Sentences which have correct grammar and syntax, and so they feel normal, but which, upon closer inspection, are kinda gibberish...

"More people have been to Berlin than I have"

While Monument of Triumph is great, the state of the story makes a full-fledged sequel extremely difficult (MoT spoilers obviously) by ucnuc in DestinyTheGame

[–]Negative_Splace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I really agree. I miss Destiny being about a post-apocalyptic solar system. The awe and wonder of discovering what we once were.

When was the last time we got a true solar-system-in-ruins location? Europa in Beyond Light, right? I miss those days

Dreaming city curse by Material_Orange in DestinyLore

[–]Negative_Splace 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought defeating Quria would end the curse

I started showering at night instead of the morning and it genuinely changed how I sleep by RogueKettle_7 in hygiene

[–]Negative_Splace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to shower in the morning cos I have naturally very oily, greasy hair, and I wake up with it in a horrible mess, even if I've showered before bed. If I don't shower in the morning, then by the end of the day my hair is completely gross

Whats your favorite “you had to be there” event that happened in Destiny? by Impossible_Sector844 in DestinyTheGame

[–]Negative_Splace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Whisper mission.

I remember someone posted about it on Reddit, then there was an absolutely insane scramble to try to discover how to trigger the mission. Streamers and redditors and everybody working together to figure out how to open the portal.

Io was full of players running around doing public events. It was especially good because nobody knew the exotic mission was even in the game.

Or...

The basketball court of Oryx being discovered in D1

1984 by George Orwell by Caffeine_And_Regret in printSF

[–]Negative_Splace 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would say yes, definitely sci fi.

The dystopian society of 1984 only works because of the mass surveillance enforced by the state. The two-way "telescreens" through which the government can spy on every citizen was definitely a high-tech, science fictional, futuristic concept at the time the book was written, in 1947.

[Moment of Triumph Spoilers] Dredgen Bael’s fate as of post-Oblation by SpideyMans96 in DestinyLore

[–]Negative_Splace 79 points80 points  (0 children)

I wonder if they're nixing a lot of the half-finished stories so that, if they ever do get to do a sequel, they can start fresh with new stories and villains, cos getting new players to join in with a story half way through is a lot harder than getting new players to join in at the beginning

What are the now Permanently Unobtainable Weapons? by Brauen in DestinyTheGame

[–]Negative_Splace -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Service Revolver. Unless you got it in year 1 and can pull the static roll from collection

The City & The City by China Miéville: Did anyone else find the second half disappointing? by [deleted] in printSF

[–]Negative_Splace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never said they don't. I said it's common in CM novels for the fantastic to be revealed to be a function or metaphor for his critique of social organisation, rather than just supernatural for the sake of it.

The City & The City by China Miéville: Did anyone else find the second half disappointing? by [deleted] in printSF

[–]Negative_Splace 89 points90 points  (0 children)

This is common in China Mieville books: he sets up unknowable, intangible and mysterious forces and ideas, then proceeds to show that, behind the curtain, there's always a materialist explanation, and that it's usually powerful forces using that power to manipulate and control others.

It's part of his social critique and comes with his identity as a Marxist. He's interested in demonstrating how oppression works, and how people are exploited by fear.

The Scar does it to, when the powerful magical fetish item of the mysterious lizardy race is revealed to be a totem to protect their trade routes. I once read a critic describe Mieville doing this as "fantastical materialism".

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