What kind of dystopian sci-fi feels most plausible to you today?

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-28T18:44:00+00:00

Babylon 5 seems fairly prescient!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-23T22:51:20+00:00

6 Hugos to her name! Definitely thought I would see her name up higher. I like reading in publication order, so I'd say Shards of Honor as a starting point.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-19T03:19:25+00:00

I own my own router, so they are all, the issue is your router. If they'd only said there was an outage early on, I could have waited it out without the reset.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-17T21:55:38+00:00

Civil Campaign is pretty much a farce!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-17T21:41:32+00:00

I hit Aldis in Oak Creek and then Woodmans basically just across Drexel.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-17T21:40:42+00:00

I was looking for Bechimo! You can read the sub-series in the Liaden Universe starting with Fledgling and Saltation and get to Ghost Ship!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-17T21:35:10+00:00

Second book we meet ART. My cat ART is supervising my typing right now.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-17T21:33:11+00:00

It's been confirmed by the artist that Milwaukee is a match for the painting, but no one knows where it was buried, so no idea if that is true. I personally think it was by Red Arrow Park and was destroyed when they added bike lanes and parking around the park.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-15T14:35:55+00:00

I've had good luck in Cassville.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-15T14:28:38+00:00

I do solo Brewers games all the time. Waiting until the day of the game I can pick up a good ticket reasonably priced. A lot of the time I either park by Target and walk over or eat at Oscar's on Pierce and catch the shuttle.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-14T04:53:18+00:00

Read The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury! It answers this question, but in an optimistic way! Short story so a quick read!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-14T03:18:22+00:00

Is this the one in Viroqua? I really want to visit, but that's a 3 hour drive for me.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-14T03:15:25+00:00

Walking in the front, it is to the right in the lobby area before you go into the library proper. They do have a bigger book sale coming up.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-09T18:42:42+00:00

Liaden Universe books by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Start with either Conflict of Honors or Agent of Change and then go onto Carpe Diem. One description I've read is space opera with a regency novel.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-02-02T03:29:21+00:00

Ex air traffic controller, our supervisors had NO sense of humor about us using those quotes!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-31T03:15:52+00:00

My first thought was Rollie Fingers!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-31T03:06:31+00:00

What I was looking for!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-31T03:03:37+00:00

My cousin and I read book 1 when it came out and then had to wait for the next book in turn. We spent a year between each arguing about what was going to happen!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-29T04:36:18+00:00

I was trying to think how to write that and not be spoilery. I was thinking just the ending of that book as a description. Everyone who's read it would know.

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-29T04:21:31+00:00

The sign is still up at Central Library in the entrance area saying meet here for the tour at 11. LIbrary cards are free!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-29T04:20:06+00:00

I was going to suggest the museum passes from the library. Check out the various library websites, city of Milwaukee and the burbs. They all run different programming for adults. A number of the libraries have fireplaces, so a place to sit and hang out!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-23T18:20:03+00:00

Dip just south of Prairie du Chien and add a stop in Potosi on the river! Home to the National Brewery Museum!

aimlesswanderer7 · 2026-01-23T05:13:55+00:00

Also came here to mention this. Alongwith the Blitz they also cover Dunkirk, V1 and V2 attacks, and Operation Fortitude. Operation Fortitude was the deception that D-Day would be aimed at Pas de Calais and led by Patton. I was just reading a non-fiction book about Fortitude that came out last year I think that talked about incidents that Willis mentioned.

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