Hey just stopping in to drop a UID.Hope this place takes off it has alot going for it that many of the other upstart boards don't.Don't fuck it up like mark's cabals.Sincerely-ggrevolt PS.: Discuss warday, one of the greatest scifi works

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Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 09:06:53 No.524

Hey just stopping in to drop a UID.

Hope this place takes off it has alot going for it that many of the other upstart boards don't.

Don't fuck it up like mark's cabals.

Sincerely

-ggrevolt

PS.: Discuss warday, one of the greatest scifi works ever

Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 09:07:06 No.525

and a shamfru selfbamru

Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 09:13:03 No.526

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>Selfbumping

>On /sf/

Seriously, though, I appreciate the UID-dropping. I was on vacation, couldn't shill, and just like that, the board fell asleep.

Haven't read War Day. Can you summarize the premise, or something? In general, I'm interested in sci-fi warfare.

Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 09:21:30 No.527

>>526

Limited nuclear strike on the US around 1989, 1992 (is when the strike occurs in the universe of the book).

Its US v Soviet Union. Limited nuclear engagement is caused by the US deploying an ICBM kill system so advandced it scares the Russians into a "use them now or never be able to use them" scenerio.

The book describes the initial strikes and the days after through the eyes of the main character, then picks up 10 years after. The entirety of the book is third person autobiography, IE the main character has written this book describing his experiences. The book chronicles his travels around what remains of the United States, now several different nations all suffering from endless maladies caused by the war, and discusses all the things he finds and sees.

And yes, California is a communist nation state in the aftermath. With internment labor camps.

Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 09:24:27 No.528

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Another great one to discuss, this one essentially predicted alot of what has happened politically speaking over the last decade in the US, and predicts what would happen if someone like Hillary became president and was faced with a real disaster (utter failure of course):

Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 09:30:19 No.529

>>527

Sounds nice. I like post-apocalyptic stories, and I'm fascinated by the concept of a nuclear winter.

>Limited nuclear engagement is caused by the US deploying an ICBM kill system so advandced it scares the Russians into a "use them now or never be able to use them" scenerio.

Project Plut much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

>>528

Sounds pretty redpilled. I often hear that sci-fi has been taken over by dirty libruls. Hell, my favorite author, Peter Watts, is kind of one.

Anonymous 10/21/15 (Wed) 03:23:03 No.636

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>>529

>…dirty libruls. Hell, my favorite author, Peter Watts, is kind of one.

Kind of one? The fedora-tipping in Echopraxia is over 9000.

mfw the protagonist out to have been blasted out an airlock immediately after launch, because everybody was already weary of him

Anonymous 10/21/15 (Wed) 09:55:44 No.638

>>636

The protagonist was the kind of fedora who changes every instance of the word "G-d" to "evolution" in religious pamphlets and then tells RationalWiki that they make a lot more sense now. I think he's been shut up pretty good by the space-creationists, though. In fact, I found their case pretty compelling. Assuming that super-intelligent AI's exist, why not just sit back and believe them when they tell you the exact mass of a binary star-system somewhere in an alternate reality? Letting two or three scientists read over it before you publish the results in a journal would not help things at this point, really.