myrmepropagandist1d ago

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.

Show threadmyrmepropagandist1d ago
I'm sick of criticizing people I don't like, you know. Let's argue about cool people instead.
Show threadeclectech1d 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"

Show threadDiane1d ago

@eclectech @futurebird

My favorite opening line was in Roger Zelazny's Trumps of Doom.

"It's a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try and kill you."

Show threadAmbulocetus
@alienghic @eclectech @futurebird Wow, I hadn't even thought of the Chronicles Of Amber in decades until you mentioned it. I read them all in one summer when I was newly adult. But that was so long ago, I barely remember it.
It was the same year that I read World Of Tiers by P. J. Farmer, so my aging memory has them a bit conflated
Back then I could almost read a book a day. Now I'm lucky if I read a book per season.
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Show threadDiane22h ago

@Ambulocetus @eclectech @futurebird

I enjoyed reading them back in the day.