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• Commented on Minor hiccup
  Off topic question too! I wonder about the influence of non-english language classical SF(F) - "Wayside Picnic" (Or whatever the english name is) by the Strugatskys features some truly alien aliens - more so than Lovecraft, I'd think - as...
• Commented on Minor hiccup
  Is the laundryverse for me? I'm not big on paranormal horror. I read one or two stories of Lovecraft and found them boring. I kinda liked the short stories of Jeffrey Thomas, that are said to be heavily influenced by...
• Commented on Books I've written
  As one of the people whi just might think about one remote day maybe sitting doen and try to write something of their own, I'd be interested in hearing about how to arrive from a weird idea or setting at...
• Commented on How I feel this morning
  Do you have any idea how hard it is to watch this when you speak german and have two lines of dialogue to follow? As for me, I don't need total syncronisation and do reasonably fine just with liferea. And...
• Commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  The reason I hesitated is that I'm not really sure that the "humans" in the Culture count as male/female. Like Estraven in Left Hand of Darkness they may live in a different category. Yes but: With Estraven, I think, it...
• Commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  Who comes to mind? I don't know why Diziet Sma from The Use of Weapons gets mentiones that often - My feeling is that Banks has roughly one female Culture Character that shows up in every Culture novel: Smart, tough...
• Commented on The ticking clock, stopped
  One Macro effect I see (sorry ...) is one of two pulls re. health insurance/retirement funds: Either both will be highly individualized in terms of cost/benefit, according to health, how long/what kind of sabbaticals someone takes etc., or a move...
• Commented on 2512
  re religion: Science is (maybe) one wave, I'd say the whole hoist of esoteric belief systems is another. Since esoterics are more of a individual approach vs the big monotheistic religions (improve yourself via meditation vs. congregattion of the flock)...
• Commented on 2512
  The 20th century was the most peaceful century in human history, in terms of probability of an individual dying violently (either in war or through murder): but it still sucked mightily if you were a conscript during the Battle of...
• Commented on Context is everything
  A few commenters referred to human nature and the fact that humans didn't evolve to think beyond certain timeframes and so on. I suggest a big box, to put besides the box labeled "Nature" (with all the earth and universe...