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The ideas were mostly neat but I just couldn’t abide the plot being driven by absurdly stupid actions over and over.
The ideas were mostly neat but I just couldn’t abide the plot being driven by absurdly stupid actions over and over.
“The Dark Beyond the Stars” by Frank Robinson might fit for you. It’s set on a generation ship that can’t find a good landing spot.
“The Final Architecture” series by Adrian Tchaikovsky has some elements of this.
It’s kind of like suspension of disbelief. Comes from pro wrestling. It’s a lot like pretending Santa is real when you’re 13 and know it’s not.
Ringworld on HBO with all the rishathra handshakes you can handle would at least hit a niche, I guess
Sheer pandemonium.
Read them all, with the novellas where the tin says they belong. It’s just unrelentingly good.
Spud Webb - 5’6", won the 1986 NBA dunk contest
Bad Santa. It’s cynical and hilarious and still ends up weirdly heartwarming.
You can’t go wrong with “they’re made of meat”, or “when the yogurt took over” ( warning, boring boobs for like 2.5 seconds).
https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ?si=9_jCNLRr_4KSfw77
https://youtu.be/lOpvxj_FRN0?si=Aa5_mwVvkrTxWMDb
Also: The World of Tomorrow is top tier scifi.
Before you pull the trigger on this one, figure out whether your daughter is of an age to understand why the tax agent has butt plug trophies. Not just because it could lead to awkward conversation, but also because if your kid doesn’t have the maturity to grasp that visual pun they won’t get the rest of the movie either.
The stars at night Are big and bright Clapclapclapclap Cause we got rolling blackouts
Such an insightful commentary on the importance of the social contract and the irreplacibility of the individual. The only way forward is to share our personal experiences and strive for understanding. Once we know each other’s value, we will never surrender our common bonds, disappoint one another, go behind each other’s backs, nor do each other harm.
Well, it’s based on the books to about the same degree as “Starship Troopers” was based on its book. Not that this should stop you from enjoying it.
A great book, but it certainly includes a lot of invented vocabulary to deal with, and the reader is expected to just roll with it and sort the vocabulary out on their own.
Rocket Rider’s Prayer, which is also from Carmen Miranda’s ghost: https://youtu.be/MApwCxI6Oek
Also, ‘39 by Queen
Which clause of the legislation provides for moving on to a new standard, short of new legislation?
How quickly will a standard be updated if the mandate encourages companies to entrench on the current standard? Industries built around the legislative certainty of the current standard may exert influence to inhibit moves to new standards, even if there are good reasons to move on.
What if we had mandated, by law, that all monitors must use the VGA connector in 1995? Would that have made DVI or HDMI or later technologies less likely to take off?
Suppose a company sees an opportunity for a better standard with such a law in place. They would have to develop the new standard and create the market for the new standard, all while their change is forbidden by law. How can they propose a new standard before actually developing it? Then, after sinking the costs on a hope, they would have to pay more to fight to change the law to encompass the new standard against everyone who likes it the way it is.
Don’t get me wrong. It would be neat if every doodad I had used the same connector. But soon enough, any connector we care to choose is a straitjacket. We raise the standard for improvement from being incremental and iterative to no change short of world shaking all at one go.
I remember when it was new, seeing a review that claimed the only entertaining thing about the movie was watching the director waste 100 million dollars. I guess they didn’t like Chris Tucker.
Hey I’ve seen this movie before… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust