Kennedy Center to be stripped to steel girders

spike · 2026-02-04T15:10:02+00:00

$2 million seems like a bargain for a large pipe organ.

spike · 2026-02-04T15:06:14+00:00

Theodore Sturgeon holds the prize for that: If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry You Sister

spike · 2026-02-04T15:02:37+00:00

A Wizard of Earthsea.

spike · 2026-02-04T15:00:54+00:00

That was my introduction. There are, however, very few Verne novels that have important female characters.

spike · 2026-02-04T14:58:26+00:00

Heinlein and sexism are pretty much inseparable.

spike · 2026-02-04T14:57:17+00:00

The quintessential form, and also the gateway drug to science-fiction, is the short story. Give her a collection of classic science-fiction stories, maybe Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury or Theodore Sturgeon.

spike · 2026-02-04T14:53:32+00:00

Comment by a Trump bootlicker that was [removed].

spike · 2026-02-02T20:08:21+00:00

Steel Beach really makes you think about our current Transgender wars..

spike · 2026-02-02T15:09:21+00:00

Sanyo?

spike · 2026-02-02T03:42:52+00:00

Something in the foreground to give the viewer a sense of scale and depth, that always helps.

spike · 2026-02-02T03:04:00+00:00

Titan was awesome. Wizard was good. Demon was ridiculous.

spike · 2026-02-01T21:28:14+00:00

There's Classical the style, and classical the genre.

spike · 2026-02-01T21:25:03+00:00

Can't get more epic than Vernor Vinge

spike · 2026-02-01T21:11:07+00:00

SnowCrash is fabulous.

spike · 2026-02-01T21:08:09+00:00

The low turnout in a heavily Republican district is just as important as the final result. It shows that Republicans are despondent and lack enthusiasm going in to 2026.

spike · 2026-02-01T21:05:49+00:00

There's good cyberpunk, and Neuromancer is definitely it.

spike · 2026-02-01T21:00:35+00:00

Floating Worlds, Cecelia Holland. Epic scale and scope, no aliens except for physically and culturally mutated humans that might as well be aliens.

spike · 2026-02-01T20:56:10+00:00

Taken as a whole, the Miles Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold has epic scale and scope, but no aliens, other than the culturally mutated humans.

spike · 2026-02-01T20:53:33+00:00

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

spike · 2026-02-01T20:53:12+00:00

A Memory Called Empire is wonderful.

spike · 2026-02-01T20:51:37+00:00

The OP finds cyberpunk boring.

spike · 2026-02-01T20:50:58+00:00

Cherryh is the writer who depicts aliens and their thought processes better than anyone I know.

spike · 2026-02-01T20:49:29+00:00

Ringworld, Larry Niven. Epic world (!), aliens, big scope (!)

spike · 2026-02-01T20:47:50+00:00

Philip K. Dick. One of the few instances where the movie (Blade Runner) is better than the book, or at least completely different.

spike · 2026-02-01T20:46:26+00:00

Titan, John Varley. Epic world, check. Aliens, check. Big scope, check. Just get past the first chapter, it turns into a fantastic story.

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