Petar Toushkov‘Louis said, "Can I help you?"
"You can," said the alien…
…in a voice to spark adolescent dreams. Had Louis visualized a woman to go with that voice, she would have been Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Marilyn Monroe, and Lorelei Huntz, rolled into one.’
“In Budapest were wine and athletic dances, natives who tolerated him as a tourist with money, tourists who thought he was a wealthy native. He danced the dances and he drank the wines, and he left before midnight.”
robcornelius#HarryHarrison wrote a very funny book called Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers in 1973. Some of the aliens in the book turned their home solar system into a gigantic #RingWorld and drove around in "70 yard long cars"
I think #car manufacturers read that joke and thought it was something to aim at. Especially #SUV and #pickup manufacturers. What the ever loving fuck was wrong with a 1990s Ford Escort or equivalent? Why do we all have to drive 3 ton monstrosities?
We shouldn't even need to own personal cars by now. Instead we should all be taking free, electric #PublicTransport, #cycling or #walking. Everyone but the most blinkered and confused right winger can see this is the right thing to do.
It seems that we get the future #SciFi writers come up with. The problem is sci-fi writers love a good #dystopia.
Kevin Bowen 
Poor Teela Brown and Halrloprillalar Hotrufan. Cursed to be created in Ringworld and doomed to be written by Larry Niven. 😱
Mike L Tilford 📚 😺Great joke Larry Niven. I don't understand why people think you're sexist?
#ringworld
TheProtagonistsnew drawing: "for once"
#art #artsky #artpost #digitalart #painting #scenery #scifi #イラスト #illustration #ringworld
Danilspeed of light in ring demos:
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wc3yz7
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/w3SfWm
Ray Baptistby Tim Hildebrandt
I thought that this was a nice positive future representation. It's on a totally constructed world, a Ringworld, which is such an awesome idea, lots of ring world science fiction now, it seems only natural to take a space station to the next level.
It could be that within this world is an outwardly polished nightmare, and I probably wouldn't read it otherwise. But it looks like a nice place to spend time🤣
#art #scifiArt #illustration #ringworld #clean #bright #happy #humane #fun #pretty
Shadora Nyxlast character is Speaker-to-Animals, a Kzin that is a cat-like warrior species. He is just muscle and thinks that he can command and take over with his strength.
Also, to mention that both Nessus' people , the Puppeteers, and the Kzin have non-sentient females that are only meat for reproduction.
I cannot stress the misogyny and the cardboard one-dimensional characters in this.
And I cannot get past that rape joke at all.
Some so-called classics are best buried and forgotten. I cannot understand how the rape joke got past editing even in the 1970s.
I am not reading another Larry Niven book ever again.
#reading #books #DNF #sciencefiction #larryniven #ringworld
Also, to mention that both Nessus' people , the Puppeteers, and the Kzin have non-sentient females that are only meat for reproduction.
I cannot stress the misogyny and the cardboard one-dimensional characters in this.
And I cannot get past that rape joke at all.
Some so-called classics are best buried and forgotten. I cannot understand how the rape joke got past editing even in the 1970s.
I am not reading another Larry Niven book ever again.
#reading #books #DNF #sciencefiction #larryniven #ringworld
Galactic JourneyNiven's newest, #Ringworld, and the ambitions Sorcerer's World by Damien Broderick are the two #ScienceFiction books on tap for review today:
https://galacticjourney.org/october-26-1970-october-galactoscope-2/
