It’s funny that in the classic Libertarian novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” the rule free society only works because there are no guns and literally everything is controlled by a single giant computer.
Objectivism creator Ayn Rand ended up on welfare after she lacked the will power to give up smoking.
Need I say more?
nsfw
They asked Stan Lee about digital comic books.
He said comics are like boobs, he’d rather have one in his hand than on a screen.
I meant printed volumes.
Don’t steal books form the library.
They put out the whole comic series in four big printed volumes after the TV show came out. The entire run of the comic.
Get them from your local library; they are worth a read, and if you get them from the library he doesn’t get any more money.
Sorry, but read “Walk To The end Of The World” by Suzy McKee Charnas,
Thus proving my point.
In “Death’s Master” the Demon Prince refers to the Lord of Delusions as “uncousin.”
In the ‘Sandman’ comics there are a lot of little cut-away stories, just like the tale of the teardrop necklace in “Night’s Master.”
Obviously, Mary Shelley. Created the most famous character of all time and the entire genre of science fiction while still a teenager.
I’m a fan of Tanith Lee. She started weird fantasy and Neil Gaiman stole all his best ideas and most of his writing style from her.
Karen Slaughter writes detective novels that make Jack Reacher look like a school boy.
Tana French is Slaughter’s Irsih cousin.
Joanna Russ was an out Lesbian back in the 1970s. “The Female Man” is still cutting edge.
The trouble is that a lot of the good stuff is forgotten as well.
Here are some movies you’ve probably never heard of.
“The Day of the Jackal” [original]
“The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3” [original]
“Silent Partner” Elliot Gould
“The 3 Musketeers” Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed.
“Little Big Man”
I never hear them mentioned but people will rewatch a Hitchcock movie fifty times.
“Silverberg’s Law”
Someone once asked science fiction writer Robert Silverberg why 90% of the SF stories they read were crap.
Silverberg replied that 90% of everything is crap.
The new serfdom.
The company will provide you with food and shelter and you do what you’re told to do.
The ‘talented tenth,’ people who are clever enough to be useful, will be raised above their cohorts, but in most cases no one who isn’t already part of the ruling classes will be able to ascend.
It’s a pretty specialized job, with less than a million* people doing it in the whole country. I don’t want to give anything away.
*Actually, somewhere between 27,060 and 989,515 full time employees.
I got hurt on the job and was given compensation. While I was free someone suggested I get a book called “Discover What You Are Best At,” by Linda Gail.
It’s a series of tests and then a list of the jobs that use those skills.
I’ve read a few ‘self help’ books over the years, but this is the one that actually worked.
And no, I won’t mention my career. What made me happy will probably make everyone else miserable.
Ohhhh, Momma!
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to talk about the authors’ styles if you haven’t actually read them.