CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoBluecheck freaks out about shape on Saturn, replies roast himtwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkBluecheck freaks out about shape on Saturn, replies roast himtwitter.comCyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareFlyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-29 months agoThere is a great book called The Algebraist that takes place in a gas giant. The scale is unfathomable. Highly recommend it, or the audiobook. The author Iain M Banks was a cool dude. Sadly we lost him in 2014.
minus-squareallthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoHe fell into a gas giant.
minus-squareFlyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-29 months agoHe’d have preferred that to the pancreatic cancer that got him. I’ll send you a copy of the book if you fancy it.
minus-squareallthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoHonestly it doesn’t sound like my cup of tea. I’m more into hard sci-fi, and also I don’t know how to read.
minus-squareFlyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-29 months agoIt is hard sci-fi. No FTL here. Granted it is grand in scale, but I don’t think that should count against it.
There is a great book called The Algebraist that takes place in a gas giant. The scale is unfathomable. Highly recommend it, or the audiobook.
The author Iain M Banks was a cool dude. Sadly we lost him in 2014.
He fell into a gas giant.
He’d have preferred that to the pancreatic cancer that got him.
I’ll send you a copy of the book if you fancy it.
Honestly it doesn’t sound like my cup of tea. I’m more into hard sci-fi, and also I don’t know how to read.
It is hard sci-fi. No FTL here. Granted it is grand in scale, but I don’t think that should count against it.