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Lord Daniel SalemAssistindo: O Que Mais Pode Acontecer?
Título original: What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Ano: 2001
#WhatstheWorstThatCouldHappen #OQueMaisPodeAcontecer #DannyDeVito #MartinLawrence #BernieMac #JohnLeguizamo #WilliamFichtner #CarmenEjogo #GlenneHeadly #LarryMiller #comédia #primevideo
James Davis NicollHe Walked Among Us by Norman Spinrad
Can the comedian from tomorrow avert dystopia and save a disgruntled SF author's ailing career in the process?
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/pass
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Let This Cup Pass From Me
Norman Spinrad’s 2002 He Walked Among Us is a science fiction messianic fable1 … or possibly an entirely mundane story about deranged people with overlapping manias and the people who exploit them. The novel’s protagonist, Hugo Award winner Dexter Lampkin, was certain that Transformations was his Big Novel. But Transformations didn’t even earn out its advance. On the advice of Harlan Ellison, Dexter turned to cracking out television scripts. This did not produce the accolades that Dexter was sure should be his, but it did deliver the income he and his family needed. Despite his Big Novel’s fate, Dexter does not turn his back on SF conventions. After all, SF conventions provide him with a steady stream of low-self-esteem unattractive fat women with whom he can cheat on his hot wife Ellie. Fate hands Dexter the chance to save the world.
El, out of spoons errorSometimes I need this reminder 😆
#AnxietyMemes #WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen #BeKindToYourself
Algorithm by Jean Mark Gawron
Of what use is galactic might and cunning against Earth's art community?
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/each-careful-step
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🐙ptoothfish🐙@sumisu3 yeah lately if i’ve got my ass kicked by an evening drinking it’s been one that started with a high gravity iipa
but i only have one in the house so… #WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen
it’s just so delicious
They’d Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
Would the super-computer doom us all or simply ensure sales to John W. Campbell, Jr.?
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/regrets-ive-had-a-few
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Regrets, I’ve Had A Few
Mark Clifton and Frank Riley’s 1957 They’d Rather Be Right is a science fiction fix-up novel. They’d Rather Be Right was also published as The Forever Machine. They’d Rather Be Right has the reputation of being the worst novel to win the Hugo. Hyperbole or cold fact? Let’s find out! In the latter part of the 20th century, kindly academic Dr. Martin realizes that Joey, the troubled boy he is assessing, is a telepath. Joey’s parents are conformist knuckle-draggers. The end result is that rather than being hailed as the next step in human evolution, poor Joey—later Joe—is consigned to a childhood of stupefying conformity. Thirteen years later, Martin’s associate Dr. Billings, Dean of Psychosomatic Research at Hoxworth University, has desperate need of Joe’s unique talent.
What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
A foray into SFF's most notorious books.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen
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What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
Astounded that I had somehow escaped reading Mark Clifton’s They’d Rather Be Right, a supporter commissioned a review. The Clifton novel is notorious as the worst novel to win a Hugo Award1. Having to read it serves me right for not immediately saying no to the commission. The commission got me to thinking
Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersPerhaps the most compelling answer to 'What's the worst that could happen' is:
"You have a soul, right?"
If you upload your important experiences to the cloud, do you still really own your soul." Or will someone else?
Aligning with #CAGEMAFIA is inviting death. In more ways than one.
The NinjaGoat#design without #intentful consideration of the question, “#whatstheworstthatcouldhappen?” is fundamentally #unethicaldesign