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I read somewhere that the broken section in the middle (the part that describes 'She' - some kind of love interest, or an object of desire) is broken because this is the part of the book that was open when the house collapsed on it. Meaning it was t…
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I tend to think of Cosmic Horror as invoking a sense of dread at the scale of the universe. I have a feeling this was easier to understand in a faith-based age, before our knowledge expanded so much. The Babylonian concept of melammu, or 'frightenin…
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I’ll put up questions toward the weekend.
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How is everyone doing on House on the Borderland?
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Dogs are team players. So are ants, come to think of it. Maybe he picked animals that could organize.
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He's most famous for City (1944-1952) and Waystation (1963). Another book, Ring Around the Sun (1953) is included in Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best books. Some of his other titles sound intriguing. Destiny Doll sounds like it might have so…
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(Quote) Seems like a funny thing to say in the Trump/Musk age, no? (Quote) D____ C___!
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That's an Alan Quartermain story?
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All true. I think I'm inured, at least in old books, to 'US Citizens are the only people in the future' because, well that's always how it's been when you consume US culture, and that's still mostly how it is now. Being annoyed by it would mean livi…
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The UK countryside might get urbanized, but the pop density of Canada is only 4 people per square km, so it everyone moved to the countryside you’d still have to walk half a km to your neighbour. Anyway, didn’t people also disperse into space?
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I think it's decent fodder for a 'story game', which is to say, the kind of game where everyone players a character for a 3-hour session and describes events or speaks in dialogue to one another. Imagine, if you can, the film The Man From Earth star…
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It's the ultimate 'the meek shall inherit the earth' tale, right? Just when we thought the dogs were meek, along came the ants.
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I mean, until one has loped, don't judge a loper, I guess.
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Yeah, I agree with Clash and Richard. I actually loved the idea of the cobblies, but think this aspect of the book could have been handled more coherently. On the other hand, I found the treatment we got strangely compelling - as if the bit about th…
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I liked the dogs, too. Less servile than the robots, but strangely more loyal. I was reminded of a book I read last year called The Lives of the Monster Dogs, about a group of dogs uplifted by a mad scientist who, after his death, use their inherita…
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@clash_bowley 's thought about never meeting to exchange genes is pretty funny (I lolled), but I don't think the American xenophobic example is a very good one to use when considering the whole world. That said, apparently populations are declining …
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It's pretty questionable, but still fun to explore. Here in Ontario, we had a mass move away from Toronto and into the surrounding towns (not so much the countryside, but some did that, too). Many who did flee to the countryside during the pandemic …
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I really liked it. It's kind of what I want SF to be about. Granted, I didn't enjoy each tale equally - sometimes I like the connecting material more than the tales. But overall, I enjoyed it's grand sweep and it's different take on future history. …
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I read it earlier this year - bit like Riddly Walker meets Dark Orbit by Gilman.
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Yes, the Dashborard tab has nothing. The Moderation Tab has a bunch of things, some of which are empty (like Moderation Queue and Spam Queue and Flagged Content) because we don't have any flagged posts to deal with and haven't admitted any spammers…
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The drafts get saved automatically. Sometimes I find something I started to write months later, still waiting to be finished. But you only find these on the full site version. The phone version is limited.
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I looked around as well - didn't see anything that stood out to me. There's nothing in the moderation or spam queues, so it's not not any posts have been flagged. There is a 16000 character limit on posts, but I think a post needs to be pretty long …
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Never noticed this before. In fact, the software tends to hold drafts for much long than I’d expect. Richard or I can snoop around be we have limited ways to make changes to any configuration. Has anyone else had issues?
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> @kcaryths said: > (Quote) > They just needed a babelfish 😂 @clash_bowley If the world was run by Russians, what makes you think there would be AI translation available. I don’t ask this to make the point that Russians couldn’t…
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@BarnerCobblewood I was making light of the fact I have no idea what this person is talking about. “The voice of reason, bidding us prefer the greater good, no matter who is to enjoy it, is also nothing but the force of sympathy, bringing a remote e…
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Yes, I thought it was an AI summary as well. Probably an American one, or it might have been ‘two lads’.
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@BarnerCobblewood so, the old sub specie boni strikes again, eh? Will we never be rid of this scourge!
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@BarnerCobblewood All good points. Normally, I'm bothered by lack of these elements in a fantasy world, where I want them all the be more like Tolkien in terms of attention to history, culture, and language. I suppose I've been conditioned to not re…
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Could you explain how a noir unfolds differently from, say another kind of mystery? I agree with the onion peeling, but I didn't know that was distinct to noir (or at least don't understand the distinction).