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Hey guys, I just ordered a mini 3 and realized it doesn’t come with a charging brick. I have a charging brick that came with my spark and a usb-c cable, will this work fine? If anyone can lmk that would be sick.

Wiped out on two different occasions with rear motor needing replacement both times. This last motor took 7 months to be back in stock! Glad to finally have her back on the road 🤘🏻😤🤘🏻

So I just picked up books 10 - 13 of his RCN series , last one was from 2019.

I was curious if more books were planned and checked out his website and it seems he is no longer writing:

Dave’s Retirement

Due to health issues, Dave will no longer be writing novels.

Since I haven't read these books yet..is the series closing in a satisfying way?

trying to visualize what the characters look like while reading the book. but there is no artwork of the characters. why is that? the book isnt popular?

I just finished House of Suns after being in a huge reading slump and remembered how much I love this stuff. I just started A Fire Upon the Deep by Vinge and really want to read Banks’ Excession. I just know I’m gonna tear thru all these so any suggestions y’all have would be much appreciated.

I'm in the middle of reading asimov's Foundation Trilogy and oh my God the first book is boring. The psychohistorian section was really good because one gets introduced to a huge Universe. I mean you hear about Trantor being this planet with 40 billion people who are in charge of administering the whole galaxy. For a moment I almost thought I was gaal arriving at Trantor in this crazy spaceship, checking out the nice space scenery. I felt like I had been the one graduating with my PhD and was finally arriving at this new world. I felt like I was the one taking the car from the Spaceport to this fancy hotel. It was a great introduction.

But the sections on encyclopedist and the mayors is so boring it's always these dudes talking about some random policy. And there is no real action at all whatsoever. There are no women in these sections, no one is boning down, no real character development, etc. These two sections feel like someone is giving me a dull summary of conversations that took place.

I'm looking for some books that are up there with dune and Hyperion. I also loved a dark matter, I thought I was such a fun book to read. And there is no hate on Asimov, as a matter of fact I loved his book The Gods themselves. Old man's war was really cool too. So far the books that I have abandoned this year has been a memory called empire, the three body problem, and I'm really close to abandoning the foundation Trilogy LOL. And your recommendations need not be science fiction or fantasy.

I'll be down to read a book about humans in other parts of the universe, interacting closely and maybe intimately with other species.

Title is somewhat self explanatory. I'm specifically looking for a books with similar vibes to shows like "Bee and Puppycat," "Sailor Moon," or "Summer Camp Island"? From what I understand, it's very hard to keep the same whimisical and childish feel of these shows in the written form. I used to imagine that somewhere out there was a book about the mythical Candyland, my cousins and I dreamed about: I tried to tackle writing this myself but I'm lacking. I don't have a problem with purple prose books btw (as long as it's good purple prose w/ a purpose). Any and all recommendations would be appreciated. Just don't recommend me something nonsensical like Fifty Shades of Grey or Wuthering Heights.

This is a name that I haven’t seen here very much (or at all), but I just picked up his short story collection from 2008 called The Drowned Life. Has anyone read his stuff? Any fans or not-fans?

I’m about a third of the way through the book and I can’t decide what I think of his stories. On one hand, they are well-written, interesting, with some very clever ideas. On the other hand I have found all of them to be unsettling - like just past the point of comfortable. Kind of like the uncanny valley idea. I can’t quite wrap my head around it. It’s all sort of triggering my anxiety but I’m also enjoying it? How does that even make sense? Is that the point? Is he more of a horror writer than I thought? It’s just weird stuff, but not overtly weird, just like normal life but there’s something hanging around the periphery that’s not. quite. right.

Hi! I’m looking for scifi stories that feature a sentient world or landscape. The worlds don’t necessarily need to be alive, but at least have an agency or act as protagonists of sorts in the action.

A classical example is Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, of course, but the way the Earth play a role in the plot of NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy is equally intriguing to me. Some VanderMeer novels also come to mind!

First time posting. Really appreciate your recs!

Any references?

"World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler
https://www.amazon.com/World-Made-James-Howard-Kunstler/dp/0802144012/

Book number one of a four book apocalyptic fantasy series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Grove Press in 2009 that I bought new on Amazon. I have ordered the second book in the series.

In this alternate reality, oil well fracking was not invented and the world started running out of crude oil in 2008. Then somebody popped off a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles and somebody popped off a nuclear bomb in Washington DC. And the world slowed down and the USA moved back to the 1800s over the next several decades. We were back to times that the flu and encephalitis killed significant portions of the population. This book is set roughly in 2030 or 2040. The book is a page turner with short three to five page chapters.

The town of Union Grove, New York has decayed significantly over time. No cars, either buy a horse or walk where you are going. No electricity and the farms are worked by hand now. The population is maybe 20% of what it was at the turn of the century so there are houses standing empty all over town. All of the older people remember cars, airplanes, antibiotics, and air conditioning but the young people don't.

The author has an active website at
https://kunstler.com/
Warning, the author's website is fairly crude.

My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,098 reviews)

It's a common trope in sci-fi books that the Earth has a unified World Government, and the aliens are similarly unified.

It's not obvious that this would be the case though and in historical "First Contact" scenarios the fact that they weren't unified made a big difference (think of the other groups in Mexico helping Cortes against the Aztecs, the various alliances European powers had with different North American tribes etc.)

Are there any books that consider this? Like imagine if First Contact happened at the height of the Cold War...