Category: Science Fiction
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I got plans for more than a wanted man All around this chaos and madness Can’t help feeling nothing more than sadness Only choice to face it the best I can When the war is over Got to start again Try to hold a trace of what it was Back then You and I we…
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So to all you feelers and fumblers Waiting for the fireworks to start Do it now–blow it up yourself Unbutton the butcher in your heart And if I don’t come home before midnight And I can’t find the keyhole in the dark You’ll know, you’ll know that I’ve been tempted You’ll know, you’ll know we’re…
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I never thought that I would find myself In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men Begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves All cats are gray In the caves The textures coat my skin In the death cell…
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The death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way. On the 23rd January Ursula le Guin died at the age of 88, leaving behind a legacy…
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The internet is all abuzz at the moment with the proud news that a men’s rights activist (MRA) has produced a woman-free version of Star Wars’ The Last Jedi, based on a low-fi cam recording from a cinema somewhere in Asia. The stated reason is to (amongst other things) cut out all the scenes which…
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And she will come from India with a love in her eyes That say oh how my dark star will rise In rented gear two thousand years we waited for a man But with a whispered plea she’d die for us all tonight. And she will come from India with a gun at her side,…
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Oh when there’s no future How can there be sin We’re the flowers In the dustbin We’re the poison In your human machine We’re the future Your future God save the queen We mean it man There’s no future No future No future No future for you The Ark’s heroes have returned from pacifying…
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Two days ago I wrote a scathing review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and since then I have been digging around for others’ views on the matter. The Guardian has an article giving some fans’ reviews, and the below the line comments are suitably critical of this awful movie. Meanwhile Vox has a pathetic,…
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens with Po Dameron pushing a ridiculous and unbelievable plan that gets a lot of people killed, and ends with him walking away a hero. He should have been killed in the middle of this movie as a consquence of a whole chain of reckless and stupid decisions but somehow…
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I am up to session 6 of a short campaign using Mutant:Year Zero, a post-apocalyptic RPG from the Free League, a Swedish mob whose games I had never heard of before I stumbled on Mutant. This game is apparently 30 years old – I’m playing the 30 year anniversary edition – and I guess it…
Compromise and Conceit 