Black hole of need?

How about just different shapes of people, with differing tastes. Some obsess over money. Others over art.

The worm criticizes the hawk for crawling improperly.

I can tell this means a lot to you. I suppose it’s a matter of taste.

It’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.

No, modern sci-fi evolved over time like all the other complex stuff tends to.

Modern sci-fi is created by every fellow with a strange idea. Who thinks maybe I could get my idea across better if I framed it as a narrative and put it in scientific terms. because science is such a lovely language for talking about strange ideas.

Greg Egan, Iain Banks and Sam Hughes are good stuff, if you haven’t.

Also, there’s this amazing new genre, “LitRpg”. Basically fantasy where an rpg type videogame became real.

Most of it is the usual dreck but some of it goes hard sf, delving into the existential stuff.

A couple of the rationalists have even taken a swing.

Try

Mother of Learning

Death after death

Friendship is optimal

So ya, real development is still alive.

No, that’s just your damn limited, dominance games obsessed perspective talking.

My point is actually the quality and appreciation of modern science fiction.

Oh zing!

See, it’s always an argument over value with you people.

So it’s always about who gets the credit. Who gets valued and who doesn’t. Who wins and who loses. That eternal muck of monkey dominance battles.

This bs dominates the common mind utterly. There’s no room for art there. It’s invisible.

It’s always an argument over value with you people.

I don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.

Nazis. Take away the snappy logo, uniforms and motivational speeches. What have you got?

A crew of adventurous billionaires and their million pawns.

Or maybe it’s the obvious. Billionaires. Princes. Oligarchs.

They gave me free prime. I was a god for 30 days. But ya.

Because you already have an account set up with amazon.

Because you’ve used amazon before and feel comfortable with them.

What is “blessed” exactly? Is it like luck?

We also pretend it’s real because that’s simpler that treating it as a useful fantasy or whatever.

That’s a danger of too much pretending.

If we agree that something is real then it’s real. Proof is in the reward for agreeing and the punishment for disagreeing.