Gregory Hays8-YO commented this morning that "tomb" is pronounced "toom," and "womb" is pronounced "woom," so why isn't "bomb" pronounced "boom," and I was happy to be able to tell her that it's because our world was not created by God but rather by an incompetent subordinate demiurge, a sort of sorcerer's apprentice if you w
Mr. Completely@aristofontes spoiler alert for Olaf Stapledon's obscure yet massively influential masterpiece #SFF novel Star Maker
C0ppertop@mrcompletely @aristofontes brilliant book. I remember reading it when I was a young lad of 17.
@C0ppert0p @aristofontes I think about 85% of the sci fi concepts that appeared in the genre up through about the New Wave authors originated in Star Maker, half of them as almost throwaway ideas tossed off in a sentence or two