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Earth is a beautiful place full of magic, but it also sucks ass and sometimes you need to escape. For a committed escape try these ~2000 pages of ecosocialist utopian fever dream on a not too distant future Mars. KSR writes with great care, wit and political insight about the process of settling and terraforming Mars. The books have an unparalleled combination of beautiful rambling descriptions of nature (both Terran and Martian), high political drama, good sex, and patient character development (with longevity treatment, people can live for centuries).
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Really interesting collection of short stories that are all connected. Humanity starts to explore and colonize Mars. Commentary on militarism, nuclear weapons, colonization, genocide, racism and much more. That old sci-fi vibe that you can’t find anymore.
I read it as part of a class in college that was purely focused on reading different fictional works about Mars. It was awesome.
Jul 31, 2024
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Famously Winesburg, Ohio on Mars, also influenced by Grapes of Wrath. A foundational part of my personal canon, adventure and awe and curiosity, religion and philosophy, the best and worst of humanity, short stories that span the first landing on the red planet to its colonization to its last man (Bradbury originally dated his stories to take place from 1999 to 2026, later editions have moved them to 2030-57)
May 2, 2024
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This trilogy is one of the most interesting and ambitious things I’ve ever read. The scale of the story consistently expands, and there is unique profundity to the concepts that the author introduces. It leaves you contemplating the depth of our place in the universe, and the philosophies upon which we entrust ourselves to evolve further into the unknown. It's going to be a Netflix series soon, so read it before it gets ruined by Corporate Money Goblins!
May 30, 2023
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5d ago
If you have a car (I don’t anymore— mine got stolen a few weeks ago), save a parking ticket and put it on your windshield when you want to park illegally. in my experience, it worked about 80% of the time :)
side note: there was no decoy parking ticket on the windshield when my car got stolen...
Feb 23, 2025
99% sure he's already come up on PI at some point but I was re-listening to some classics this morning and its some of the most inventive, timeless and funny shit out there. Ive probably only listened to a tiny fraction of his catalogue but this one called Flipwild is a great place to start
Feb 23, 2025