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Welcome to fourth-stage Poe's Law, where we sit around the embers of once-brilliant fires, wondering what is even real anymore.

Yeah, but I'm not going to talk about those books. Too well known, and everything that can be said about them has been said about them.

So, I did finish the book. To my great surprise, I somehow left the best stories for last. Paingod, by Harlan Ellison, was a little difficult to get into, at first. It is the story of a god of pain, a transcendent being whose job is to inflict pain on all creatures in the universe, from tiny...

Hey, thanks for reminding me that this thread exists! Avatar was the culmination of what I call Hollywood Eco-Misanthropy. Throughout the nineties (Probably earlier, but that's when it become obvious enough for me to notice it) the morality espoused by Hollywood was sort of a utilitarian...

Yeah. The Noble Savage myth is as old as Rome, believe it or not. I would hazard a guess that it's as old as Gilgamesh, but you'd have to ask @S'task about that. There is also a sub-genre of Utopian fiction which dates back to the 1800s. The conceit is that there is a small society out there...

Yeah. Could be a sign of the times, because the Vietnam War and the surrounding culture war weighed down pretty heavily on the science fiction community, or so I've been told.

I just read a short sci-fi story, Final Exam, by an anthropologist named Chad Oliver. It's... hold on, let me quote the introduction: In short, it's eleven pages of revenge porn. The Martians are stand-ins for native Americans, except instead of dying off due to disease and tribal warfare...