SFL Vol 09 started off poorly.
-The first real message of 1984 was about David Eddings latest BELEGARIAD book being delayed. Then Vol 09 Digest 02 started off with Marion Zimmer Bradley recommendations. If only the SFL posters from 1984 knew what is now known about Eddings & MZB. Hoping for minimal MZB & Eddings discussion in the rest of SFL Vol 09, in fact I would gladly read 3 solid months of only filk-song chat and filk-song lyrics posting if MZB & Eddings never came up again in SFL Vol 09.V the 1980's tv-series making zero sense on multiple levels caused much SFL discussion
-STAR TREK 3 came out and and also caused much SFL discussion
-Lots and lots of discussion-arguments about "time travel for profit" using banks/investing/trade.
-Someone reposted all the Hitchhikers Guide to the Net parody/homage series and hate filled my soul.
-Marion Zimmer Bradley chat cropped up repeatedly along with filk chat and more "old time religion" filk-song series. Hate continued to rise.
-The SFL archives version of BravestOfTheLamps is Jeff Duntemann on a never ending quest to determine what SFF stories/what SFF authors are of literary merit
-BackStabMod reappeared in the SFL archives as a "normal" poster after less than 2 months of being "off the ARPANET" forever. Still going to call them BackStabMod forever though, just like DolphinF**ker will forever be called DolphinF**ker
-STAR TREK 3 came out and and also caused much SFL discussion
-Lots and lots of discussion-arguments about "time travel for profit" using banks/investing/trade.
-Someone reposted all the Hitchhikers Guide to the Net parody/homage series and hate filled my soul.
-Marion Zimmer Bradley chat cropped up repeatedly along with filk chat and more "old time religion" filk-song series. Hate continued to rise.
-The SFL archives version of BravestOfTheLamps is Jeff Duntemann on a never ending quest to determine what SFF stories/what SFF authors are of literary merit
-BackStabMod reappeared in the SFL archives as a "normal" poster after less than 2 months of being "off the ARPANET" forever. Still going to call them BackStabMod forever though, just like DolphinF**ker will forever be called DolphinF**ker
-A whole lot of SFLers are doing "my non-online friend says: CONTROVERSIAL TAKE" posting
-Dean Ing gets mentioned for the first time in the SFL archives. Dean
Ing was/is a batshit crazy mil-scifi survivalist author obsessed with
airplanes, cowboys, technology, the old west, and the sex life of boars.
-Terry Pratchett gets mentioned for the first time in the SFL archives as well, regarding huge scale "built world" story recommendations, which definitely applies to Terry Pratchett's STRATA.
-a Tekumel RPG/Empire of the Petal Throne RPG novel gets pimped/reviewed/counter-reviewed.
-many people ask for Libertarian fiction recommendations, resulting in multiple Libertarian fiction recs, which I won't inflict on this thread other than saying 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999919999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999993999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 of the Libertarian stories mentioned in the replies are exactly as stupid and trite as Shakespearean plays.
-William Gibson's NEUROMANCER came out, and most of the SFL likes it. Personal opinion: Worse thing in Neuromancer is the character archetypes, which Gibson will reuse and reuse until you are sick of them.
-Scifi magazine/book cover-art chat devolves-evolves into Queen the Band discussion/Day the Earth Stood Still/cover artist chat, which purged about 80% of the hatred in my soul from the earlier mentioned MZB chat & filk-song lyric posts.
-Lauren Weinstein takes some lithium/finally calms the fuck down about WARGAMES 1983 enough to promise IMDB style episode summaries of the Outer Limits tv-show
originally posted August 1st - August 8th in the SomethingAwful forums Science Fiction Fantasy Megathread 3
-Terry Pratchett gets mentioned for the first time in the SFL archives as well, regarding huge scale "built world" story recommendations, which definitely applies to Terry Pratchett's STRATA.
-a Tekumel RPG/Empire of the Petal Throne RPG novel gets pimped/reviewed/counter-reviewed.
-many people ask for Libertarian fiction recommendations, resulting in multiple Libertarian fiction recs, which I won't inflict on this thread other than saying 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999919999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999993999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 of the Libertarian stories mentioned in the replies are exactly as stupid and trite as Shakespearean plays.
-William Gibson's NEUROMANCER came out, and most of the SFL likes it. Personal opinion: Worse thing in Neuromancer is the character archetypes, which Gibson will reuse and reuse until you are sick of them.
-Scifi magazine/book cover-art chat devolves-evolves into Queen the Band discussion/Day the Earth Stood Still/cover artist chat, which purged about 80% of the hatred in my soul from the earlier mentioned MZB chat & filk-song lyric posts.
-Lauren Weinstein takes some lithium/finally calms the fuck down about WARGAMES 1983 enough to promise IMDB style episode summaries of the Outer Limits tv-show
originally posted August 1st - August 8th in the SomethingAwful forums Science Fiction Fantasy Megathread 3
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