Ooh, I hope it&#039;s not gonna be too much like <i>Saturn&#039;s Children</i>. I just never got pulled into that one. Now, <i>Glasshouse</i>...
Also, what person that ever spent any time in or around a corporate or government IT environment wouldn&#039;t love the Laundry? People dissolve into puddles of goo, and then you have to fill out the paperwork.
Honestly, in modern terms, neither of them could write their way out of a paper sack. But they had ridiculous ideas for the time, and the whole point of sci-fi is ideas.
Look at the fuckers. They&#039;d be babbling into their aetherophones like all shit. Hephaestus would be tweeting about Aphrodite&#039;s &quot;thighs&quot;.
I&#039;ve just always assumed it would be the Otis Space Elevator. Even if they don&#039;t invent it, it&#039;s a fucking elevator, ain&#039;a? Isn&#039;t that how patents work?
My sister, who is a good Anglican in a thoughtful way, quite likes Cs Lewis, and she used to belong to a forum about it, but she had to abandon it, probably in 2008, because it was full of insane right-wing fundamentalists whom of course she disagreed with over the election.
THAT was awesome. Somehow I don&#039;t think it would be a good idea to use it to introduce &quot;The Veldt&quot; when I start my Gr 11 English next September, but I&#039;ll be thinking about it! Because I loves me some Ray Bradbury. ETA I do, however, use <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=_esYONwdKuw" target="_blank">THIS</a>
&quot;The Veldt&quot; has haunted my memory for fifty years.
Ooh, I hope it&#039;s not gonna be too much like <i>Saturn&#039;s Children</i>. I just never got pulled into that one. Now, <i>Glasshouse</i>...
Also, what person that ever spent any time in or around a corporate or government IT environment wouldn&#039;t love the Laundry? People dissolve into puddles of goo, and then you have to fill out the paperwork.
Honestly, in modern terms, neither of them could write their way out of a paper sack. But they had ridiculous ideas for the time, and the whole point of sci-fi is ideas.
Look at the fuckers. They&#039;d be babbling into their aetherophones like all shit. Hephaestus would be tweeting about Aphrodite&#039;s &quot;thighs&quot;.
<i>Childhood&#039;s End</i> is perfect. It is, IMO, among the absolute best novels ever written.
And you&#039;re right about bull&quot;fighting&quot;.
But it &quot;formed the basis for <i>2001</i>&quot;? I&#039;ll accept that if you have a quote from Art.
I&#039;ve just always assumed it would be the Otis Space Elevator. Even if they don&#039;t invent it, it&#039;s a fucking elevator, ain&#039;a? Isn&#039;t that how patents work?
Please.
Tugging the tether.
Wait. Didn&#039;t that happen already?
My sister, who is a good Anglican in a thoughtful way, quite likes Cs Lewis, and she used to belong to a forum about it, but she had to abandon it, probably in 2008, because it was full of insane right-wing fundamentalists whom of course she disagreed with over the election.
THAT was awesome. Somehow I don&#039;t think it would be a good idea to use it to introduce &quot;The Veldt&quot; when I start my Gr 11 English next September, but I&#039;ll be thinking about it! Because I loves me some Ray Bradbury. ETA I do, however, use <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=_esYONwdKuw" target="_blank">THIS</a>
Roger Zelazny. That is all.
Mesmerizing, isn&#039;t it? It shows what the children see beautifully.
And here I am reading old Thomas Ligotti collections.
<i>Douche</i>ment park
Redundant. Already got vacuum.
Outstanding. I shall look for opportunities to steal this.