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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So I put Grok in Brave search and which one is melon-musk

  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Asimov erasure. He was a liberal, but far from the worst. “Foundation” is basically babies first DiaMat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Iain M. Banks' The Culture series started in 1987

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Fair, good counterexample.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whats wrong with Childhoods End?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I read the book in high school over a decade ago and missed that part

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein way before that and it's still a good read as both foundational sci-fi and horror I-was-saying

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Grog around here is rum with hot water, or tea.