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  1. Lew Rockwell Fan

    Asimov's Rare Fantasy Stories

    Azazel reminds me very much of de Camp. Which is good. Very good.
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    Evil Scientist Cabal

    Drat. I saw the title and opened this thread hoping to find a membership application.
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    Military SF - Single Ship Novels - Recommendations?

    A lot of the Man-Kzin Wars stories fit that description. Maybe a third of them. They're all good.
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    Alternate History

    The Whenabouts of Burr by Michael Kurland is very good. So is the classic that inspired Turtledove, de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall.
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    Alternate History

    Lots. I think nowadays, most. Turtledove's 2 novels turning on the Confederacy winning are interesting in that regard. He did the SF version first. I get the impression the SF aspect of it bothered him artistically. It is after all a heavy duty deus ex machina to bring in modern weaponry via...
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    Alternate History

    I think there are several where it is public knowledge in at least one of the timelines. In L. Neil Smith's series beginning with The Probability Broach it is definitely public knowledge in one, and known-to-many in several. It's a really nice series. It is particularly clever in using many...
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    Science Fiction Book covers

    This is actually the original painting from which the cover was made apparently. I can't find a good enough image of the actual book cover to do it justice The book is The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerold & Larry Niven. To explain why this is hilarious would be a terrible spoiler. Those who...
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    A children raises a dragon hatchling. ~90’s

    "A Children . . ." /me looks around for knuckle striking ruler.
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    What are your favorite universes, no descriptions or spoilers!

    I join Vince W & AE35Unit re Known Space (of which Ringworld is the best example and near the top of my list for best SF of the century).
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    What are your favorite universes, no descriptions or spoilers!

    You do know they came back and did a movie, right? There is also a very funny derivative series called Con Man wherein Mal and Josh (I forget their real names) portray fictional versions of themselves going to cons. My own appreciation of Firefly/Serenity, video above, short essay below...
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    Science fiction about organized crime

    T. J. Martinel's The Stringer. It's a horribly plausible near future "dystopia with hope" to use a phrase cribbed from Niven. Genre blending, noir 30s vibe, done with a light touch. Very underappreciated author. Might be the best novel I've read in the last few years.
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    Using Human History as a guide Could Our Present Civilization Fall Into a New Dark Age?

    BTW, I shouldn't have let my word pedantry about "dark ages" or "decline" distract me from the actual point of the title question. Darn tootin' [will that pass the cussin' filter?] it could. It looks to me like we are in imminent danger of our Great Filter moment. Not that I expect a sudden...
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    Using Human History as a guide Could Our Present Civilization Fall Into a New Dark Age?

    I jumped into this thread to more or less support your point that the term "dark ages" was misleading. I'll grant that I'm a contrarian Devil's advocate by reflex, and that you are perhaps reacting to my [Maybe I'd have emphasized the "most" if I had suspected any were in the house, but I stand...
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    What Short Story Do You Love Above all Others ?

    I'm not sure I'd be willing to claim "above all others" for anything, but Print Crime by Doctorow comes immediately to mind and no other does. At least the best in several years.
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    Authors whose work you read before they were famous...

    It would be easy to cite a lot of people who started in the 70s, but who'd believe me? I'm a huge fan of this guy though, and I think most people don't consider him famous yet: https://www.tjmartinell.com/
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    Dean Ing, June 17, 1931 - July 21, 2020

    Near the top of my personal list of favs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Ing
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    Science fiction by women authors

    Sarah A. Hoyt is great.
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    kicked off of FB within five minutes of setting up the account

    I had an account for several years but about a month and a half before the 2018 election I was banned for "synthetic sharing". A lot of people are in denial about the problem. If their own Niemoller moment ever comes I'll have no sympathy.
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    Using Human History as a guide Could Our Present Civilization Fall Into a New Dark Age?

    I think that's, to some degree, because most historians have a strong pro-Roman bias & the "dark ages" were mainly the European face of the decline of Rome. They have a pro-Roman bias partly because they have a pro Great Big Polity bias. They usually speak of successful conquerors in approving...
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    pre-Gagarin cosmonaut

    I'm not sure when this was made. I remember that people were still discussing this and some similar controversies in the 70s. https://www.bitchute.com/video/913TrYExz6A1/
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