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I suspect that two neutron stars in the local neighborhood would be glowing so hot in the X-ray spectrum that we would know about them already. For supergiants, the like to become Type II supernovae, you can probably determine the axis of rotation at that range; we’ve seen sunspots on Betelgeuse at significantly

Too late, Fritz already cast a spell of unmaking on them all.

Yeah, thats more a Larry Niven cover. /rimshot

As a real man I would take being called alpha, beta or gamma as an insult to my non-canine heritage and tell anyone who drugged someone into being a rapist and then expected me to bail them out from the goodness of my heart that they were on their own.

Except here I am thinking its misogynistic to say that men are required to act selflessly, save the women in the future first place or have no value as human beings. Was not trying to prove your point, saying that the theory is broken. Future women had plenty of agency and violated the men... the men should at this

Spinning at high speed with their poles pointed at us?

So wait... do we fight the rapists or not? The only other option is to fight the rapists and expect not even a token “thanks” in return, and that sounds like total self-denying altruistic bullcrap (because being a man of course obligates you to fight everyone else’s battles) when there was a apparently a whole

Podkayne of Mars? What ... a teenage girl is the main character?

Tunnel in the Sky? What? A gun isn’t the most useful thing on an alien planet???!!!

“There are stars that far away from us right now, though thankfully none of them are at risk of blowing up any time soon. But that doesn’t mean a supernova couldn’t go off nearby. Stars are always in motion, and a star that might be nearing the end of its life could swing into our neighborhood and go off. “

I had no idea he was African-American. There must have been one whole sentence devoted to his ethnicity. Damnit you just ruined the whole book for me. /sarcasm


For all his ethnicity is mentioned, he could also be based on Bill Nye and it would change *nothing* but their opinion of the story.

If its a popularity contest, then there are plenty of books that are even more gendered and fall into the category that could have deserved to win (based merely on popularity) than a bunch of hamfisted military sci-fi or stereoytypical fantasy that no one has read - stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_…

Anybody that unironically names themselves after the voice of God (Vox Dei), yes, a lunatic, but also a stupid one.

He is dead, you know. You’re speaking of his pile of money in the present tense.

Oh yeah, Robinette Broadhead was totally an alpha male with a raygun, blasting his loved one out of the grip of a singularity. Instead of a total self-hating gamma male spending the entire novel on a psychiatrists couch hating himself for, you know, NOT.

Then everything DaVinci code is Hugo material too, because that’s the level the writing is at, and Angels and Demons had antimatter bombs (pew pew). He was a terrible author, his characters exceedingly flat and stories predictable - they were movie scripts for Summer blockbusters, not good speculative fiction. The

Here’s the thing — their fiction was NEVER in fashion. They don’t realize that the hugo and nebula awards were for thought-provoking science fiction. The number of bog-standard military great-white-hope power fantasies that ever got awards pales in comparison to the things that explored social issues of the time. Look

I’m reading Seveneves currently and Vox Day is only revealing his incredible level of prejudice having issues with a female President who has absolutely no power in the new environment she finds herself in. If that’s what he read in this book - that its about gamma males and gender roles, as opposed to the massive

They are of course allowed to try. I as the market can say no at any time, and I have. Personally I have no displeasure - they can price the DLC at a million dollars if they want. I just take issue with people saying ‘because the developers worked hard you can’t criticize this price as being too high.’ Of course we

I’m looking all over but can’t find it. It was probably an old interview with Dan O’Bannon talking about modelling the life cycle off parasitic insects, that basically once the eggs are laid (on Dallas / Brett) the parent wanders off to die. I can’t speak for Ridley Scott, but I know that Cameron found O’Bannon’s life

So do we subscribe to the labor theory of value now when it comes to worthless bones thrown to Destiny players?