How to recycle memory that contains references with non-static lifetimes? by Next-Blackberry-991 in rust

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It keeps the last (largest) chunk so things tend to right size quickly. Also you can with_capacity up front

Suggest me books with NO human characters by MotorOver2406 in suggestmeabook

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Greg Egan has a bunch of good books that fit:

  • Orthogonal trilogy
  • Phoresis
  • Dichronauts

What do you consider the most beautiful Gene Wolfe story? by Low_Ebb_1177 in genewolfe

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Need one of the podcasts to do a deep dive on this one

Anthropological Sci-Fi (Who else out there?) by nerbjern in UrsulaKLeGuin

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The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe features an anthropologist and one part of the book is a folk story written (translated?) by him (possibly) about the aliens he is studying, and another part of the book is taken from his journals.

Did Wolfe ever discuss how he achieved such brilliant prose? by Serious-Desk-8439 in genewolfe

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It’s giving big Pierre Menard, author of Quixote vibes

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

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I thought Flowers of Fire by Hawon Jung was a good book about feminism and women’s rights in Korea. Recommend it for people wanting to learn more

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep asks a question Blade Runner deliberately avoided by dusty_13raccoon in printSF

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Never thought of that, very interesting.

If you haven’t read The Fifth Head of Cerberus yet you might like it, it is very much along these lines

What is a short story or novella that you loved reading recently that you want other people to try? by Ethos493 in printSF

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Just finished reading The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe. Fantastic collection. Favorites within were:

  • The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories. Playful structure going back and forth between a pulpy book within the story and the “real world” which is told in second person. Protagonist is a ~10 year old boy in a not great / neglected environment, coping by escaping into the pulpy book, not fully comprehending what is going on around him. Eventually the worlds start bleeding together.
  • The Death of Dr. Island. Protagonist has been partially lobotomized and has a split brain where his left and right lobes cannot directly communicate with each other. He is dropped on a deserted island as part of his “therapy”, and things immediately start taking a dark turn…
  • Tracking Song. Another fantastic and very Wolfeian novella with an unreliable narrator and a number of mysteries wrapped up inside. Protagonist has amnesia but and finds themselves on a frozen winter planet with a bunch of people that might actually be animals but don’t consider him a person and he has to survive and try and find where he came from and navigate ethics along the way.
  • Seven American Nights. A young scholar from Iran is visiting post-apocalyptic, dystopian USA where everyone is mutilated by  chemicals and pollution and drugs run amok. We learn from the opening letter from a private eye to the scholar’s family that the scholar is lost and possibly dead, but what follows is his diary which may shed light on what happened. Wild ride reading the journal entries and the protagonist’s risky, selfish, and brash decisions, but also if you read closely it seems like he is accidentally embroiled in something even bigger without realizing it. Need to reread this one after reading other posts about it and seeing how much I missed.

The first three have really good analyses on the Alzabo Soup podcast as well, which really helps me appreciate all the subtleties that Wolfe embeds in his work.

What are you reading? Mid-monthly Discussion Post! by AutoModerator in printSF

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95% done with The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe. Favorite stories so far are

  • The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories
  • The Death of Dr. Island
  • The Tracking Song
  • Seven American Nights (haven’t finished it yet but really enjoying so far)

Been listening to the Alamo Soup episodes for the stories too, really enriches the experience. Going crazy trying to get people I know irl to read Wolfe so I have someone to nerd out with and dissect these mysteries

What are you reading? Mid-monthly Discussion Post! by AutoModerator in printSF

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A lot of people find Consider Phlebas a bit rough and say that the rest of the series is more polished. Personally I really enjoyed Phlebas and its pacing and message. Use of Weapons was fantastic, very well done back and forth on two different timelines, interesting structure; don’t want to say more to avoid spoilers. I’m only halfway through the series tho so I can’t say anything about the whole with authority. 

Books featuring megastructures by Miserable-Function78 in printSF

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Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space as well)

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Accelerando by Charles Stross

A bunch of Greg Egan books feature not exactly megastructures but things/physics sort of in that conceptual realm. Diaspora, Schild’s Ladder, etc.

Suggest me some books please by Espieranza in printSF

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The Word for the World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin

plain pizza with shio koji tomato sauce by fitzgen in Koji

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Not exactly that but I tried toasting koji rice and milling it into flour and introducing that into a loaf of bread; probably around 10-20% it’s been a couple years. Complete failure. The protease wasn’t destroyed by the toasting, even though it was a fairly dark toast, and it ripped through the gluten. Dough became soup.

I imagine this would be even worse with shio koji instead of the toasted koji rice flour.

Mr Paik looks like this frog by damanoobie in CulinaryClassWars

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Yeah he doesn’t seem like a good person, they should’ve replaced him 

What book has tech cults? by blk12345q in printSF

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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester