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Moya from Farscape. Creepy, organic, but strangely lived in. Also very temperamental.

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It only matters if it’s to the death.

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Try the stories of Harry Harrison.

Wiping my Reddit account as we speak as the 30th begins to roll on in. Anyone struck by nostalgia?

I'd been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it's gone, it's gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone....

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Like tears...in the rain...

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I just use a French press. My current ratio is 30 grams of coffee grounds to 500ml of water. Mix together, place in the fridge overnight or about 8 hours. Transfer to teapot the following morning so as not to oversteep. Still experimenting though so I'm also curious about other techniques.

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You're right, I have to correct myself, my steeping time is actually closer to 10 to 12 hours. It was 7pm when I read the post and got inspired to make cold brew again. I expect my first cup tomorrow at 6am!

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I DNFed Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. I had high hopes because the concept was reminiscent of Philip K Dick's stories but I found the book to be a confusing slog with characters seemingly pulled from nowhere and with the plot muddling along with coincidences and revelations. There are a few gems of ideas in there, just takes too long to unpack.

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For all its alien backdrop, it was the human element of Roadside Picnic that I found more terrifying. I needed a more cheerful and upbeat story as a palate cleanser from its dismal outlook.

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Start using it more frequently and favor it over GUI apps. For instance, use cd and ls over the file manager. Launch applications I using the command line. Figure out ways to do in the CLI what you used to do using GUI. Over time you should get more comfortable with the environment.

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Project Gutenberg has a pretty good science fiction selection, quite extensive in fact that I think it's better to go by author than by individual works.

For the "classics" there's H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, aside from Verne and Shelley whom you've already mentioned.

There are some surprising names, too, like Jack London, E.M. Forster, and Rudyard Kipling.

For golden age scifi: Frederic Brown, E.E. "Doc" Smith, CM Kornbluth, Jack Williamson, Frederic Pohl, Olaf Stapledon, and Andre Norton. Also, Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.

For your criteria, though, I would recommend looking for the works of Philip K. Dick and H. Beam Piper.

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