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Psychedelic Plants Lead to Alien Mind-Melding in a Small Town
A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
Charles Stross Says You Can No Longer Write Near-Future Science Fiction
Why is Science Fiction Going Back to the Near Future?

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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/26/09

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I love that there's a comic award called the Ignatz.
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braak
08/26/09

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I am sure that this is awesome, but speaking of Finder, Finder is fucking AWESOME.
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Illogic
08/26/09

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Awesome comic. Though I'd advice against reading it all in one go. I tried that once and my brain started melting.
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eviladrian
05/20/09

In reply to A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
Carl Marks? Really?
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Grey_Area
05/20/09

@eviladrian: Yeah, what a knee-slapper, huh? The character changed it from Kenneth Weitzmann. Marks made a fortune using computer avatars of dead actors in films glorifying Communism; Douglas Fairbanks as Che Guevara or Robert Goulet as Stalin in the musical biopic Koba!

Irvine has a twisted sense of humor. I like it
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Grey_Area
05/20/09

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Just curious, has anyone out there read anything else by Irvine? He's done a few other novels as well as come comics and a media tie-in for Supernatural I'm more kinda curious about his last book, The Narrows. Alternate WWII set in Detroit about a Ford plant making Golems for the war effort.

Hell of a premise, but is it any good?
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Grey_Area
05/20/09

@Grey_Area: R.O.A.C.H.: Uh, that's, "...as well as some comics and..."

Me rite gud.
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♪
05/20/09

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I'm more partial to investing in the floating death traps that are prison ships.
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Grey_Area
05/20/09

@♪: And if there's a riot and the prisoners take over it's all "Ahoy, me hearties!" and piracy ensues.
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corpore-metal
05/20/09

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Argh! More books to read! Never going to make it to the bottom of the list, never!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
05/20/09

@corpore-metal: I've worked my way down to one book left on the backburner while I work on this Ian Cormac novel.
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Grey_Area
05/20/09

@corpore-metal: There is no bottom, friend. It's books all the way down.
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matthewtoney
05/20/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: "Line War" or are you on an earlier Cormac story? Asher's stuff is like candy for me - lots of fun but I usually burn thru it in a day...
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crashedpc - Haifisch
05/20/09

@matthewtoney: Brass Man, right now. It's thick but has big font; I just can't find the time to read throughout the day so I plod through them nowadays.
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Rasselas
05/20/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: "Shadow of the Scorpion" is good, but "Prador Moon" left me cold, if you're planning what to read next.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
05/20/09

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Great! My bookstack was running low. As usual, if this novel blows I'm going to burn your house down, Grey_Area.
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hakubak
11/06/08

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Sorry guys, all these high-contrast Che Obama images are creeping me out. We're not a banana republic just yet.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@hakubak: Give it time.
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Pessimippopotamus
11/06/08

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If I hear the word "post-racial" again, I will strangle the first person I see. All this talk of this nonexistent racial barrier makes me sick. Black people in the recent past couldn't become president not because of their color, but because they were crap and uncharismatic. I mean, Jesse Jackson? Come on. All you have to do to break this illusion is see how many people of the "ethnic background" (kind of nondescript since being white is also an ethnicity) are in high governmental positions. And there are quite a lot.

*Sorry for the rant.
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corpore-metal
11/06/08

@Parkington wrote, "All you have to do to break this illusion is see how many people of the "ethnic background" (kind of nondescript since being white is also an ethnicity) are in high governmental positions. And there are quite a lot."

And does that worry you, Parkington? Because it sounds like it does.

I agree we should all mellow out about this but, white male whining about this--which sounds to me like you're doing--sounds particularly victim-ish to me. Pot meet kettle.
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Pessimippopotamus
11/06/08

@corpore-metal: Meh. Maybe I'm not a white male. Nor am I against having people of different racial backgrounds having power in the government. It's just that I am tired of people who claimed that Obama's campaign had nothing to do with his race are suddenly so proud that America has picked a black president.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@Parkington: Another reason he's the first, is that other worthy African-Americans have been Conservatives, and therefore demonized.
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Ghede
11/06/08

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ALTERNATE TIMELINES!

Personally, I will think his greatest success was --raising national morale, indirectly affecting the economy, education, and decreasing overall political apathy, leading to a new golden age for the USA.--Civil rights--Economy--International relations--Free cheese dip.

Personally, I will think his greatest failure was breaking each and every campaign promise and being just another bastard, only marginally better than Bush.

Personally, I will think he was an OK president, he did some good, did some bad, bit --more good than bad.--more bad than good.--more run than gun--more thelma than louise--more buck than bang--more bang than buck.

Personally, I will be saddened by his untimely death after a long illness. Biden was a --mediocre replacement at best.-- great replacement.-- awful replacement.

Personally, I think it was too late already. The zom(*#(*er*@alr#*risi****

ERROR! BUFFER OVERFLOW! OBAMARAMA.DLL NOT FOUND. OUT OF CHEESE. REDO FROM START.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@Ghede: Raising the National Morale? Have you looked at the Stock Market since the election? Investors are scared spitless.
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Gann
11/06/08

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Does it bother anyone else that the "nanobama's" in the pic above are white?
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Ghede
11/06/08

@Gann: Until they invent nano-dye designed for carbon nanotubes, or nano-blackface, no.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
11/06/08

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From the first link: "My students find this hard to believe, raised as they were in a world where skin color is just another accidental, like the length of one's hair or one's sexual orientation."

I don't think President Obama is going to change that in only 8 years; racism and homophobia are too entrenched. But it would be really nice to have happen.

He's not going to produce miracles -- I just want him to rein in the money oligarchy, make science a good thing instead of a dirty word, take advice from someone other than the "Moral" "Majority" types, not start a pointless war, not piss off the rest of the world... basically just undo the stupid shit of the past 8 years.

Also, he should adopt a rescued pound puppy to be First Dog. Yes We Can save a puppeh!
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Asari
11/06/08

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I don't expect miracles or want a hand out from President Obama.

I expect him to help us remove the fangs of the ruling class from our necks.

I understand there will always be a ruling class, and President Obama is an (enlightened) part of it, but they should profit based on their own hard work and innovation, not on stealing ours.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@Asari: Thank you Fidel.
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GiltProto
11/06/08

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I'm looking forward to my electric rates increasing by a factor of 4 or 5 once those carbon taxes take effect and everybody is chasing windmills!
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urbalor
11/06/08

@GiltProto: As if they'll pass. The Republicans retain the ability to filibuster, and will be more than happy to use it on anything more liberal than a Congressional pay increase. Have no fear, nothing will be accomplished and the media will cheerfully tell the world that it's all the Democrats' fault.
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RAHfanboy
11/06/08

@urbalor: What world do you live in? McCain would vote for closure on that as would Collins and Dukakis and several other RINOs. And the press never (until it's too late) blames ANYTHING on the Democrats.
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