abasio Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 You should try some true modern sci-fi then http://www.psynews.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/smile.gif Peter F. Hamilton for example... great writer, but huge books, but some great space opera Hi Dros, Sorry for replying to something that probably predates us actually meeting. I do actually love some space opera and I read a hell of a lot of shitty sci-fi but this guy is the worst writer ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHorse Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Charles Taylor - The ethics of authenticity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 I recently delved back into an old favorite: the Dragonlance series. It’s based on a D&D campaign from the 80’s and was more or less the first fantasy books I read. It’s not as sophisticated or immersive as more recent fantasy series but it’s been fun revisiting those characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsotsi Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Just got my first Ursula Le Guin Book - The Left Hand of Darkness. Was trying to find The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas but couldn't find it so got this bad boy instead. Pretty good fantasy world has been painted so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychedelic chipmunk Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Oh boy, I haven't read fiction for years. My favourite book, at least for now, has been Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. .. but working on some details of homological algebra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wabax Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/3/2020 at 5:41 PM, Psychedelic Superbeast said: check out robert anton wilson and Frederick E. Dodson Sounds good. Which one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I’m reading Oathbringer, the third book of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Pretty interesting world, good story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kombo* Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Reading Mona Lisa Overdrive have read Count Zero last will be Neuromancer in between have read enough books, this way works for me shaping the idea along with Movies - illustrations - videogames - own intuition and of course Music (Youth's album title rings the bell??!) Focusing Sci-fi this time Asimov- Robots of Dawn, Spinrad- Agents of Chaos, Besher- Rim, Tom Clancys- Net force and Net force breaking point (almost irrelevant both), Thanasis Vempos- Five cracks on the Grid, A Clarke- Profiles of the future, Alfred Bester- Tiger tiger, Murdoch- Rise of the Robots and Williamson- Hell Cyberpunk thriller (both videogame novelizations), S Baxter- Ring, Orwell- 1984, going to read Bernard Lenteric- L'Ange Gabriel, Do Androids Dream, probably few others mentioned in this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Drug Use for Grown Ups by Dr Carl Hart He talks about going to a Boom Festival in one of the chapters too. Good stuff (if interested in non fiction about drug usage) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolsk Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Just finished reading The Immortality Key by Brian C. Muraresku. If you've heard about or read the book The Road To Elysius by Gordon Wasson, Albert Hoffman and Carl Ruck, you'll be interested in this book. The book is a bit too long, so if you're not deeply interested in the subject you can do with Joe Rogan interviewing Brian or Jordan B Peterson interviewing him. Quote In The Immortality Key, Muraresku explores a little-known connection between the best-kept secret in Ancient Greece and Christianity. This is the real story of the most famous human being who ever lived (Jesus) and the biggest religion the world has ever known. Today, 2.4 billion people are Christian. That's one third of the planet. But do any of them really know how it all started? Before Jerusalem, before Rome, before Mecca—there was Eleusis: the spiritual capital of the ancient world. It promised immortality to Plato and the rest of Athens's greatest minds with a very simple formula: drink this potion, see God. Shrouded in secrecy for millennia, the Ancient Greek sacrament was buried when the newly Christianized Roman Empire obliterated Eleusis in the fourth century AD. Renegade scholars in the 1970s claimed the Greek potion was psychedelic, just like the original Christian Eucharist that replaced it. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The rapidly growing field of archaeological chemistry has proven the ancient use of visionary drugs. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psycho-pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. No one has ever found hard, scientific evidence of drugs connected to Eleusis, let alone early Christianity. Until now. Armed with key documents never before translated into English, convincing analysis, and a captivating spirit of quest, Muraresku mines science, classical literature, biblical scholarship and art to deliver the hidden key to eternal life, bringing us to what clinical psychologist William Richards calls "the edge of an awesomely vast frontier." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffan Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 I've just started reading Big Sur, Kerouac. Been on an American trip lately. Burroughs, Bukowski and Thompson. Maybe I go on with Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 or something else. The Leopard and Total Chaos is tempting. Some Italian or French literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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