A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights agreed on Dune, which has become outdated to no mean degree (barring the Butlerian jihad).
Perhaps the deeply dystopian and occasionally trippy Neuromancer and subsequent novels? Got a bit of the sex stuff in so I'm not sure how shielded said teen should be, and protagonist is man but costar is badass woman.
Theoretically, Asimov is interesting, but like Herbert hasn't really stood the test of time and gotten outdated.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
Feed by MT Anderson
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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@boxofdelights What fantasy does she like? Murderbot is a solid choice
@ansate I'll ask her about what fantasy she likes tomorrow. We meet at the library, so I'll get a stack of books for her to look through!
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@boxofdelights agreed on Dune, which has become outdated to no mean degree (barring the Butlerian jihad).
Perhaps the deeply dystopian and occasionally trippy Neuromancer and subsequent novels? Got a bit of the sex stuff in so I'm not sure how shielded said teen should be, and protagonist is man but costar is badass woman.
Theoretically, Asimov is interesting, but like Herbert hasn't really stood the test of time and gotten outdated.
@boxofdelights also, yeah feed that kid Murderbot
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights For light comedy, R. Kroese, Starship Grifters?
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. (First of three, which are waiting to be read...)
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights The Lathe of Heaven
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights l love Stanslaw Lem, but that may be a bit much to get started. But how about his short stories, The Cyberiad. Here's an example (a fave of mine) of one of them. How The World Was Saved: https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the-world-was-saved
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@boxofdelights Anything by Becky Chambers. Her work is unfailingly delightful, optimistic and engaging. https://www.otherscribbles.com/
@Ooze Excellent!
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@dropbear I haven't read Service Model yet but I love all the Adrian Tchaikovsky I have read.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights I mentioned this to someone else recently, but...
I love Julie Czerneda's sci-fi books. I think my favorites are in her Species Imperative trilogy: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-species-imperative-1-julie-e-czerneda/36f8e644f506c6e2
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)'s Newsflesh trilogy?
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@Ooze Excellent!
@boxofdelights @Ooze Becky Chambers is who I was going to recommend! Especially the Wayfarers Quartet: https://wayfarers.fandom.com/wiki/Wayfarers_series. Someone else recommended him too, but @scalzi is excellent.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series, anything in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, The Expanse series by "James S.A. Corey", Ken Liu's collections The Paper Menagerie and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights If she wants fun John Scalzi, if she wants creepy Jeff VanderMeer and if she wants pro-found Ursula K Le Guin
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights For a young female reader—Ursula LeGuin of course. More recently "The Deep Sky" by Yume Kitasei or "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers.
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@boxofdelights Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)'s Newsflesh trilogy?
@moira @boxofdelights Oh I love that series!!
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A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
@boxofdelights Trying not to repeat anything already mentioned.
Ancillary Justice by Leckie.
The Word for World is Forest by LeGuin.
Binti by Okorafor.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Lem (or The Cyberiad).
Anything by Vonnegut -
@boxofdelights I mentioned this to someone else recently, but...
I love Julie Czerneda's sci-fi books. I think my favorites are in her Species Imperative trilogy: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-species-imperative-1-julie-e-czerneda/36f8e644f506c6e2
@kristinHenry Those are great!
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Il “punto freddo” nelle aurore di Giove
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> Il telescopio spaziale James Webb ha individuato un’insolita anomalia termica nell’alta atmosfera di Giove: un “punto freddo” di 265 °C nell'impronta aurorale della luna Io. La scoperta, guidata dalla Northumbria University, rivela
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@EF Slowly, thank you for asking. We both hoped she could recover faster, but it seems to be quite slow. Nothing serious, but it looks like several factors are now coming into play together. This long flu has caused some other issues that, taken together, are making her almost unable to do a lot of things. This also affects my life, as I can’t leave her alone for long.
The last two days have been better. Let’s hope this trend continues and maybe even speeds up. There are three things I’d like to do in the coming months, and I still hope we’ll be able to experience all of them.
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@aeva Yeah, I'm regretting a bit using "*professional* experience" in the question, since it does suggest paid work, which wasn't my intention. I wanted to differentiate from "user experience" and "developer experience", which are not the kind of "experience" I was asking about. "Work experience" might be a better term, since it can encompass both.
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@salvadorbs
sono dati personali ma non credo siano dati sensibili
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@nuintari Ditto
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@ricardo Oooo, haven't tried that one. I tried Helix, but did not like it, even with a config that makes it as vim like as it can be. It is just too fundamentally different.
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@nuintari I was already considering https://github.com/kyx0r/nextvi
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@ricardo This is relevant to my interests.
