Mastodawn

When you talk about people you make them important. I want to think more about who I choose to make important.

Even if you are criticizing someone, burying their bad ideas with logic and all the knives of science you're still making them and their ideas important.

You can expect me to talk about Iain M. Banks more and the questions I have about his work.

It's why it's probably is a good idea to do a critical review of Newitz and their "Terraformers" which I also have questions about.

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myrmepropagandist 1d ago

I'm sick of criticizing people I don't like, you know. Let's argue about cool people instead.

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eclectech 1d ago

@futurebird Ooh, OK. My starter. I think Iain M. Banks wrote slightly better books as Iain Banks, than Iain M. Banks. Controversial I know.

He wrote my favourite opening line of a book ever.

"It was the day my grandmother exploded"

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Nonya Bidniss 1d ago

@eclectech @futurebird I loved his books but I only read the ones with the "M." I liked Terraformers although I lean toward more gritty, hard scifi.

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eclectech

@Nonya_Bidniss @futurebird I do like his M. ones too, but love some of the others a great deal. I suspect shared places, politics and culture (hah) a part of it.