Preferably science fiction books. Sometimes these genres mix as it is more like a spectrum from one to the other, but preferably this community leans more towards the science fiction side of that.
Yes absolutely. I've seen some things that people considered sci-fi that were way more into the fantasy side of the spectrum, but Silo is solidly science fiction.
I'm currently in the middle of Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I'm only about 15% of the way through so I don't have a great picture of what is going on or what it is about yet. It seems like the main premise is about an archeologist who has been working on an excavation of an ancient species on a distant planet for an extremely long period of time that likely has far reaching implications about the universe. I've definitely never read anything similar to this in the past.
The other book I plan on reading (listening to) is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers of which I know basically nothing about. I tend to listen to a book whenever I can't read such as when I'm driving or bathing and then read at times that I can like before sleeping. I find it is a good system to get through 2 books at once.
I like these ideas. I might make monthly pinned posts about what people are reading.
As for everything existing in one community I am mostly in favor of that up until the point that the amount of traffic actually gets excessive. We aren't anywhere near the levels I'd find overwhelming and needing to be split up. Only then do I think it makes sense to split communities. However, other people tend to disagree evident by the amount of communities that got created as soon as Lemmy became more popular. People are trying to jumpstart 10 communities that are all niche subsets of broader communities and I just don't think that is going to work well.
nevermind. I was getting him mixed up with the Mule, which he definitely isn’t.
I'm not sure I even understand who Mule is. Is Mallow not the guy that supposedly overthrows the Empire and everything else? If not then I have no idea what they even want Mallow for or how his name came up in Hari Seldon's psychohistory math thing.
If you can separate the tv series from the book then it is like a completely unrelated sci fi series that is not great, but not quite as terrible as it would be otherwise. I haven't finished the book so I don't have a conflict here, but I've had this issue with other things I've seen that have been adapted.
It seems hard to believe this Mallow guy is somehow going to get from where he is now to where they saw him in their visions of the future. I'm sure they will avert this crises so we will never find out what that timeline would have looked like anyway. We are inching closer to these stories colliding. The Empires story is now extended by this general taking a trip to the Foundation so at least the Empire and Foundation stories will collide soon.
Based on what we have seen I can't see how the Foundation can put up any kind of resistance. As for the 2nd Foundation I suppose Gaal is going to go there now and found it with new Hari? Is the 1st Foundation just a kind of ruse to hide the real 2nd Foundation? Kind of like an encrypted container inside another one to make you think you've unlocked its secrets?
I'm pretty sure they think of the person taking care of them as some analogous of a mother. We should be careful not to anthropomorphism their emotions as they are probably not quite as complex as we would like. They certainly have some degree of emotions though.
But they have no concept of "human" or "mother" so I would guess it is more like "thing stops hunger, thing warm, thing safe". Thus they bother you when they are hungry, sit on you when they are cold and come to you when they are afraid.
I doubt the actual intelligence our brains are capable of has ever declined, but what does worry me is everyone's complete reliance on various technological luxuries that the average person would not be capable of surviving without if it ever came to that.
It's not really the thing that is important. On principal I disagree with the idea that it isn't opt-in only. Then ontop of that if there is no way to even opt-out that is crossing the line. It doesn't matter what it is or what it is for.
But we are talking about having our device inadvertently used by Google to locate other peoples devices. They are advertising that they have a network of over a billion android devices to locate such things. Not only do I not want to buy a tracker I also don't want to participate in this network.
Preferably science fiction books. Sometimes these genres mix as it is more like a spectrum from one to the other, but preferably this community leans more towards the science fiction side of that.