Science, Fiction… Science-Fiction! Also Historial Fiction, Classics and a tiny bit of Fantasy! Oh and.. Long live the Rom-Com! Sorry. / Huge TBR. 📚🙋♀️📚 Also @teresamacedo@mas.to
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1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape …
Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who …
Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who …
Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who …
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in …
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in …
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial …
Woahh! I was not expecting this ending. Slow and steady, even somewhat boring, at times. And then.. bam! I feel like I should’ve seen this coming.. but I didn’t.
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial …
"[…] Dahl has the potential for making serious trouble. If the heatsinkers should go on strike, Trantor would experience a severe energy shortage almost at once... with all that that implies. However, Dahl's own upper classes will spend money to hire the hoodlums of Billibotton - and of other places - to fight the heatsinkers and break the strike. It has happened before. The Empire allows some Dahlites to prosper - comparatively - in order to convert them into Imperialist lackeys, while it refuses to enforce the arms-control laws effectively enough to weaken the criminal element.”
— Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #6) (Page 389)
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial …
Content warning Spoiler - or not, who knows 🤷♀️
“The robot you see near the center was, according to tradition, named Bendar and served twenty-two years, according to the ancient records, before being replaced.”
— Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #6) (Page 294)
Wait. Is Bender from Futurama based on Bendar?!
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial …
According to the records, it had a fairly normal weather pattern when it was first settled. Then, as the population grew and urbanization spread, more energy was used and more heat was discharged into the atmosphere. The ice cover contracted, the cloud layer thickened, and the weather got lousier. That encouraged the movement underground and set off a vicious cycle. The worse the weather got, the more eagerly the land was dug into and the domes built and the weather got still worse. Now the planet has become a world of almost incessant cloudiness and frequent rains - or snows when it's cold enough. The only thing is that no one can work it out properly. No one has worked out an analysis that can explain why the weather has deteriorated quite as it has or how one can reasonably predict the details of its day-to-day changes.
— Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #6) (Page 110)
Better put “Under a White Sky” by Elizabeth Kolbert next on my reading list.
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial …
“There are those who wear their hair shoulder-length on one side and shave the other.” He laughed at the memory. […] ”There are lefties and righties, apparently, and each finds the other version highly offensive. The two groups often engage in street brawls.”
— Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #6) (Page 42)
Asimov wasn’t big on Punk and it shows. 😅
