• more about #coffee
    Wyldemusick: Aha! But in the semi-distant future of my Analog story "Empty Barrels" they not only drink coffee, but the central characters of the story grow their ... more »
    Grey_Area: I'm more of a teapunk kinda guy myself. "Bud noticed they we're all making rather a big deal about the tea." #annemccaffrey more »
    YoungWilliam: With the gfi vs tea bit, it might be that they're making a split between the product and the process? After all, I've seen many a thing marketed as 't... more »
    m_faustus: Holy flipping crap! Where did the Too Much Coffee Man image come from? And I know that it isn't far future, but in one of the Callahan's Saloon nove... more »
    Dunny0: In the future, coffee will come in cans and be carbonated. #annemccaffrey more »
    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: The characters in my future stories drink Crimson Bovine... #annemccaffrey more »
    Belabras: I'm already imagining wars that might have been fought over coffee had it been introduced to Europe before the middle ages. #annemccaffrey more »
    Slightly Bigger Than Wee Jock But Not So Big as Middle-Sized Jock Jock: Not SF but fantasy - The Seanchan in Robert Jordan's Never-f**ing-ending Wheel of Time series drink "kaff," IIRC. #annemccaffrey more »
    icelight: The Mote books had coffee. Even a (very) minor subplot around Jamaica Blue Mountain, in theory the exclusive property of Imperial family. #annemccaffrey more »
    tetracycloide: in the future all coffee will be freeze dried or pre-ground and a small, underground, guerrilla movement of growers that produce only shade grown bean... more »
    ManchuCandidate: In The Forever War, the common theme among the different time periods was bitching about the quality of the coffee/soya/ersatz coffee. #annemccaffrey more »
    AmishJohn: Well, in Anne McCaffene's defense, klah was a bark, not a berry; and they went into how one of the first things an Exploration & Evaluation team did w... more »
    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: In Orca, I think, Brust actually explains the process that goes into making klava, which is actually more like espresso than regular coffee. It also ... more »
    CharlesRockyPamplin: what was that shit they used to drink on "Deep Space Nine"? Raktachino, or some shit? yeah, whatever, Star Trek. #annemccaffrey more »
    capnrob: There was a Too Much Coffee Man *stage show*? Dear god, why did no one tell me? #annemccaffrey more »
    RizzRustbolt: Star Trek's another one in the "Tea is okay, coffee is bad" camp. Rac digno anyone? #annemccaffrey more »
    RoboBagins: As someone who drinks tea more then coffee, and nothing more then tea, I don't really notice the coffee replacements. #annemccaffrey more »
    BadUncle: Who needs coffee when you have drug glands? #annemccaffrey more »
    atrus123: Ziltoid: the Omniscient needs coffee too. Epic kudos to everyone who knows what I'm talking about. #annemccaffrey more »
  • #bookvortex

    Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!

    When science fiction books depict people living in the distant future, where's the coffee? Tor.Com's Jo Walton wants to know. She lists some of the hilarious words authors use instead of coffee, including Anne McCaffrey's "klah" and Steven Brust's "klava." More »
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  • #robotaddictions

    A Machine That Tastes Espresso, But Prefers Only the Good Stuff

    This machine can taste the quality in your cup of espresso, and can identify coffee types nearly as accurately as a panel of trained human espresso tasters. How does it work? More »