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So I put Grok in Brave search and which one is
Grock is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.
According to Merriam-Webster, grok means to understand profoundly and intuitively.
Grock was a Swiss clown, composer, and musician who was once the most highly paid entertainer in Europe.
Stranger in a Strange land sucks unbelievable amounts of ass (not in like a cool way), this video on it is a classic. The one-two punch of that book & Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke made me realize that any sci-fi written by a man before like 1999 is unreadable dogshit.
Asimov erasure. He was a liberal, but far from the worst. “Foundation” is basically babies first DiaMat.
idk I also re-read some foundation novels and they were really childish. The fact that UKLG was publishing contemporarily just puts them all to shame.
Iain M. Banks' The Culture series started in 1987
Fair, good counterexample.
Whats wrong with Childhoods End?
You don't think there's wrong with benevolent hyperintelligent aliens visiting earth and going totally hands off except for stopping violence against white farmers in South Africa?
I read the book in high school over a decade ago and missed that part
Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein way before that and it's still a good read as both foundational sci-fi and horror
Grog around here is rum with hot water, or tea.