So no change from business as usual.

I’m nearing the end of Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb.

I really liked the Assassin trilogy, and this one is off to a great start for the Liveship series.

But damn, if she doesn’t give her characters the short end of the stick in pretty much every case.

Scumbags. Let them pay the wages of sin.

And no, not literally. We’ve progressed from biblical morality.

Absolutely! I haven’t listened to anything by them from after Ironbound more than once.

I think they meant this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize?wprov=sfla1

So do I, but I can see why someone would be put off the whole series after reading The Colour of Magic, so having some other books to recommend makes sense to me.

Have to argue against What the bleep do we know.

It is neither science fiction, nor a movie (in the fiction sense). It is a documentary, and as for the science fiction, it isn’t present, and not in the same way that it isn’t present in some of the other movies.

It isn’t there because it was not the intention to make a science fiction movie.

What the bleep do we know was meant as non fiction. You were meant to take it seriously, as usable information.

None of it is actually real, though, and it is filled with pseudoscience. But at its core, it is meant to be watched just like a any other documentary, not as a movie.

The Planetfall books by Emma Newman are set in a corporatocracy.

Standard Ebooks is a wonderful resource, although they do sometimes go for more modern words or spelling. It’s to help modern readers better understand old texts, but it means you won’t get some of the cool and quaint wording and formatting.

Such a good choice!