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...sense you mean, since they're not *like* Asimov, but I'm not familiar enough with Death Note to compare there.

The ultimate answer is probably Stanislaw Lem.

I have not personally got into him enough yet to recommend anything specific, but I feel like Adam Roberts writes in this mode sometimes, and is highly regarded. Worth a look at least?

I've always thought of Ian M Banks' SF books as being puzzle-boxy. Not 100% sure if it's in the logic-puzzle...

...of that area as 'empty' for this purpose since he doesn't know what was there. Either way, didn't strike me as a plausible read of what was actually there.

...of contact and knowledge from mesoamerica that stopped at the edge of mesoamerica just seems wild to me. Feels like he's either literally only put the border there because that's where the current border is, *or* because we commited such a thorough genocide on those in the North that he thinks...

I'm no historian at all, but I got suspicious of Sapiens as soon as I hit his explanation of 'human worlds' pre-exploration-age and his backing it up with this map of them in 1450.

Like I don't know what his reasoning is coz iirc he doesn't explain it, but the idea that there was a boundary...

Her seeing a song about Charli XCX's own insecurities making her think crazy things and assuming it's a directed personal affront is so embarrassing ffs.

Fucking ewww.

That's both in bad taste and, like, I get being a fan but there are other books. Read those you dickhead, you just sound stupid as well as entitled.

Yeah. Setting aside the entitlement, that's just pig-ignorant by the article writer.

And, like, you don't have to be a deep nerd to find an alternative! James SA Corey are just as clickbaitey and one of them writes political fantasy and the other one is GRRM's assistant. It's right there for you!

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This FF?

“The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life"

You do understand that that's bad, right?

Like watching Jimmy Saville showing up on old British tv shows and whatnot.

They're planning an Authority movie, so I assume one Jenny or another will be involved at some stage, but I doubt she'll be in this.

It's Angelica Spica, the Engineer.

One day if I ever have enough confidence, time and energy to write about games I might do something about how carefully Nintendo designed the topography of the world to engender this feeling, and how few of its imitators understood what it did there.

8 years on, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild remains unlike any other open world game, and the industry is still playing catch up Opinion | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's shift to open world shook up the industry – making it one of the Nintendo Switch's definitive moments

I wrote about Breath of the Wild and how it helped cement the idea that a good open world game isn't about the scale of the map, but how curious you are to explore it:
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There's something really fucking sinister about the way, in subject after subject, it's the outlets offering high-quality independent journalism and analysis that get taken over by slop-machines.

Why do Valnet even think Polygon readers are gonna stay with them?

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My first report card for the March tournament is live.

See? Trump is an educator!

Trump is turning America into the giant vagina monster from Watchmen.

A fantasy book cover with an armoured man half covered in cobwebs shooting blue magical energy at a cowering man.

A sci-fi book cover with a sabretooth tiger failing to Mission Impossible dodge some laser beams.

Two sci-fi people stand over a dome city? with a catlike alien man cuddling a lemur alien thing.

A space dragon with a shirt hangs out on one of Mercury’s moons chatting with his white-robed human friend.

We’ve really lost the magic of SFF book covers.

The cover for Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead, a gloomy brownish-orange featuring a realistic, glowering Tara Abernathy as the lead.

The cover for the later Dead Country, a much brighter but still relatively featureless cover featuring the same Tara Abernathy from behind facing a glowing figure.

Wicked Problems, the sequel to Dead Country, once again featuring a glowering Abernathy with a knife, but this time mid-action, casting a spell while framed by a massive purple tentacle monster.

The cover for Dead Hand Rule, the sequel to Wicked Problems, featuring other series protagonist Dawn, in a much brighter scene in various colours, clouds below and an upside-down city above.

I will say that while I don't think we'll ever go back to those days and single-focus, graphic-design-led covers are here to stay, there has been a trend towards livening up in the last few years, which can be traced in the evolution of Max Gladstone's Craft book covers. Fingers crossed for more.

The cover for Robert V.S. Redick's Master Assassins, depicting the two leads fleeing their nemesis, who is riding a giant sabre-toothed cat and waving around his flame-engulfed fist.

One small village still holds out against the invaders.

It's a mythical Greek monster that fired heat beams at Odysseus.

Out of everyone involved here, you are the most twitter-coded. Starting a needless argument then crying when the person responds is... well, you're very like Elon.

You didn't speak to her directly though, kid?

Sometimes a book comes along and charms the socks off me, and the Warden by Daniel M. Ford was one.
It's a cozy fantasy about friendship, a bit of romance, and learning to love a place you didn't expect to, *and* an adventure fantasy with questing, fighting, and skeletons and shit. Very recommended.

To be fair I don't think that's he was saying- Dark City was on the list along with the Matrix as one of the films the later followers were trying to keep up with.

You've reminded me of when the fantastically named Demetrious Polychron wrote a Lord of the Rings sequel, sold them for money, *then sued Amazon and the Tolkien estate for coypright infringement* when Rings of Power came out.

He didn't vote for Trump though, he's celebrating babies dying coz they're in a state where people did.