Loldongs i have Old Man's War, Sun of Suns (read this shit), and the Disunited States of America.
Seriously, it's cash. Anything by Turtledove will make you think a ton.

>>1310

Ah very well my good chaps. Should I grab a towel? I do hope booze pills work even better than lager as you see I can drink narry a thimble of the stuff.

Its a toss up between John Ringo's Into the Looking Glass series (as i prefer to call it), Posleen War series or Frank Herbert's Dune series, mindfuck as it was

I'd definitely say the old school Golden Age Sci-fi writers like A.C. Clarke and Asimov are the best (especially the Foundation Series (they're making a 3D movie out of it!)).
I also like the Ender series but not THAT much.
My favorite books of all time are the Golden Age series by John C. Wright. It's pretty new stuff but the author is amazing.

>>1161

This. OP might want to read The Left Hand of Darkness by the same author. If you like linguistics and cultural anthropology, Le Guin's a must-read.

If you haven't already, give Altered Carbon a try. It's damned fine cyberpunk.

>>1772
Cool, I've Pushing Ice waiting right here for me.
How is House of Suns?
I've read all the RS series, just going through The Prefect now and enjoying it.
Interested in his non-RS books, as I read Century Rain and didn't enjoy it that much.

>>1773
Yeah Redemption Ark was the first of his that I read and I found it slow going in some areas.

My favorite so far has been Chasm City.

>>1772
Pushing Ice your favourite?

I prefer house of suns and the prefect as my fav two really. thou he is brilliant and i'm yet to find anything of his i don't love. century rain looked like it would be bad from the synopsis, and then turned out to be good.

sadly i thought the whole RS trilogy got worse as it went on

Only read his short story Minla's flowers, but still liked it a lot.

>>1904
Compared to single celled organisms, animal life has only been on the planet for a tiny fraction of the time.

>>1905
I'm not disputing the prevalence of microorganisms. But what I'm saying is that since animals evolved shortly after the oxidation of Earth's atmosphere by algae and plants, I think it's likely that similar events have probably occurred on many other worlds---plants paving the way for animals. Where there's one, you'll probably find the other---if not now, then in a billion years or so.

>>1879
Guys, don't talk about the evolution of animalian life, considering how much we don't know. In fact, we'll never know the commonalty of such life until we encounter other life elsewhere to create a contrast.
Besides, the principles of evolution (we're assuming life has arisen, so that includes some sort of nucleotide genetic code), natural selection, heredity and variation should be applicable anywhere, even if the air pressure is different or methane is the dominant fluid or the life-forms are silicon-based. Probably. It makes sense. But caveats aside, if animal life is merely defined as a protein-generating double-membraned lipid vesicle-house for genetic code that can reproduce, it should be in abundance where other life is in abundance. Again, probably. It makes sense.

Depends on if it's only one cube, and also if you believe in nanobots.

Damn nanobots didn't exist until they were written in later.

Borg adapt to blaster rifle fire and assimilate deathstar from the inside.

The end.

>>1915
Movie 1 sounds like "Enemy Mine." Damned good movie. I have no idea what 2 is. Too ambiguous.

I liked the 2-hour pilot. I can't say I've seen BSG before, but this show shows a lot of promise. Unfortunately though I won't be able to see tonight's ep live, but I've got it recording and hope to see atleast a few of the eps live.

This show really got good when they showed New Cap City. Plus the robot girl is too foxy for words.

The show pretty much sucks. I followed through to the latest episode (8, i think?) and it had a good start, true, but afterward, the show become more and more boring. They need to spice it up somehow.

Resistance Is Character-Forming
God Told Me To Do It
or
Lapsed Pacifist

Iain M Banks has all the best ship names

Youtube - Toggle Video

  Vilnius
I don't particularly care about the city, I just like the name.

The Legend,
or
Ouroboros,

>>rimmer
Even his name is gay.

If you're in trouble he will save the day
He's brave and he's fearless come what may
Without him the mission would go astray
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer

Without him life would be much grimmer
He's handsome, trim, and no-one slimmer
He will never need a zimmer
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer

More reliable than a garden trimmer
He's never been mistaken for Yul Brynner
He's not bald, and his head doesn't glimmer

Master of the wit and the repartee

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