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    Image of strideo strideo
    03:28 PM

    In reply to Kim Stanley Robinson: Dystopian Fiction Is For Slackers
    Most science fiction I've read doesn't necessarily take place in a dystopia or a utopia but in some form of society that is pretty much somewhere in between.

    Also there are science fiction stories where one civilization has spread out to include many cities, planets, or colonies where some are virtually utopias while others are very much dystopian factory worlds.

    Also, a lot of stories I've read about utopian societies often suggest that there is something terribly wrong with the utopia at it's secret inner core or the author portrays a world where somehow people are no longer responsible for their own well being while still somehow retaining a great degree of personal freedom and growth while having almost no external challenges to overcome whatsoever. I think it'd be great if humanity could be so greatly self motivated but I imagine in such a world we'd look a lot like the fat people in WALL·E .
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    03:25 PM

    In reply to Kim Stanley Robinson: Dystopian Fiction Is For Slackers
    Color me intrigued. I like my dystopian stories but am always looking for some one to prove that utopias can be as interesting. #kimstanleyrobinson
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    03:23 PM

    In reply to Kim Stanley Robinson: Dystopian Fiction Is For Slackers
    While I count myself as a huge fan of the Mars Trilogy, the unfortunate truth is that every time KSR decided to write about his "utopia" in the novels, it descended into unreadable pseudo-eco-socialist blathering nonsense that detracted from what was otherwise a fantastic yarn.

    I won't take my sci-fi from my economists if I can avoid taking economics from my sci-fi authors. #kimstanleyrobinson
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    03:05 PM

    In reply to Kim Stanley Robinson: Dystopian Fiction Is For Slackers
    Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod... A new Robinson book that's actually out in space?

    WOOOOHOOOOOO YAY SPACESHIPS #kimstanleyrobinson
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    03:16 PM

    @Lassus: Well, I read the summary, so that might be pushing it, but even so, yay! #kimstanleyrobinson
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    02:54 PM

    In reply to The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek
    instead of tatooine we got hoth #startrek
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    Image of Aurangzeb Aurangzeb
    02:06 PM

    In reply to Kim Stanley Robinson: Dystopian Fiction Is For Slackers
    Wait, there's a new KSR book? One that harkens back to the Mars Trilogy and doesn't involve the environment?

    Count me in.
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    Byronotron promoted this comment Edited by Aurangzeb at 11/09/09 2:09 PM Aurangzeb was starred Aurangzeb was unstarred
    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    01:57 PM

    In reply to The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek
    This book had to be made to keep up the Star Trek book tradition. I remember when I was a kid I had the tech manual and the concordance and used them while watching the series every night on channel 39.
    I still wish one day they would build the Dreadnought.
    [www.kitsune.addr.com]
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    Image of jeremydeananderson003 jeremydeananderson003
    01:40 PM

    In reply to The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek
    "Hey let's make Kirk land on a desert planet!"

    "You mean like Tatooine?"

    "Hm. Okay. Let's make it an ice planet!"

    "You mean like Hoth?"

    "...shut up."

    This movie sucked.
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    Image of mekki mekki
    04:56 PM

    @jeremydeananderson003: Agreed. My guess as to why Abrams rebooted Star Trek is because he couldn't reboot Star Wars. So, he tried to make Star Trek as close as he could to Star Wars without making it too obvious. Of course, he failed. #startrek
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    Image of ddmeightball ddmeightball
    01:06 PM

    In reply to The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek
    Kirk shot first? #startrek
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    Image of Gemini2 Gemini2
    01:05 PM

    In reply to The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek
    Blah..Wow, someone is bored!!! #startrek
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01:10 PM

    @Gemini2: Sorry is this directed at the author of the post? Because if so, that's the kind of tired old shit that gets a young man's ass banned. #startrek
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    Image of Gemini2 Gemini2
    02:11 PM

    @Pope John Peeps II: No this was not directed at the author of the story! Just saying that they keep coming up with more and more every week about the DVD. It was directed towards the industry. So relax. io9 is one of my favorite sites ever. I would never say anything in that manner.

    So forgive me if it seemed that way. Not the case.

    Peace #startrek
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    04:15 PM

    @Gemini2: Cool, good to know. I didn't think it was directed at me, but thanks for explaining anyway. In any case "Someone is bored!" is always a safe statement on the internet. :) #startrek
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    Image of Gemini2 Gemini2
    04:28 PM

    @Charlie Jane Anders: LOL, I don't know about that anymore. Looks like you can be judged at any moment.

    But in the end, we are all humans, right?

    Keep up the good work. #startrek
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/08/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    Astronaut Fall is a knockoff of a Ray Bradbury story. Bradbury's ending was a child wishing on a falling star. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/07/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Unfortunately, the website seems to have missed the point, even though this quote is right there on the page:

    "She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. "

    Everything they show would have been glaringly comment-inducing when worn by a woman before probably the mid-sixties... Certainly before the mid-fifties.
    -Kle. #williamgibson
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    11/07/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Damn, we've broken the site, apparently.

    I love the idea that, with Gibson's work, we're moving back from a not-so-distant future to a not-quite-there-yet present.

    Give it another two books and he'll be predicting tomorrow. #williamgibson
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    Image of Dearhaw Dearhaw
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    The Curta calculator, for me, is probably the most ridiculously irrationally lust-worthy item. I really can't explain why I want one so much, but I do, and I'm determined to find one, somewhere, some time (for a reasonable price :-) #williamgibson
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/07/09

    @Dearhaw: They're pretty cool. I want one, too. #williamgibson
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    07:13 AM

    @Dearhaw: I remember checking out the prices on Ebay when the book first came out. A few months later they had doubled. #williamgibson
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    I also saw Marly Krushkova as a strong feminine Gibson character. When I read Pattern Recognition after Count Zero I saw echoes of her in Cayce. And her anti-style is actual style. Like Kat says in her article, Cayce embodies the quality of cut, context of style, and the semiotics of fashion which a lot of people who love clothes are more interested in than branding or elitism- that is what true style is.

    In a strange way it is that mentality, that awareness of fashions semiotics, that creates an elitism in style. It is what makes certain designs and brands more desirable, and therefore more marketable.
    I suppose Cayce's ability to sense this is what makes her a sought after coolhunter. #williamgibson
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