Posted on April 15th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “The harsh reality of any advanced civilization is this: privacy can’t be tolerated, lest, in some dark recess, a malcontent plots to unleash atomic or biological weapons, computer viruses, antimatter, or any other technology that poses an existential threat.” The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 2023 Roscoe killed a guy who’d bullied […]
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Posted on April 14th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “We have survived as a civilization because each of us understands our commitment to the whole… Thanks to uncounted severe lessons, we have come to understand we can rely on no one but ourselves. In the end, we are the only ones who have never disappointed us — or betrayed us.” Star Trek: Discovery […]
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Posted on April 12th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “There will, however, be a period of time during which the Spacers will remain stronger than Earth and its Settlers, though by a steadily diminishing margin. Eventually, the Spacers will inevitably become aware of Earthpeople as a growing danger. At that time the Spacer worlds will surely decide that Earth and the Settlers must […]
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Posted on April 7th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “It was a wasteful and inefficient procedure and there are now no Earthpeople that we will allow to serve as further settlers. We have become Spacers, long-lived and healthy, and we have robots who are infinitely more versatile and flexible than those available to the human beings who originally settled our worlds. Times and […]
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Posted on April 6th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “You remind me of a young me, except with taller hair.” Run the Burbs season 3, aired in 2023 At a community yard sale Camille’s cookbook from her mother accidentally gets sold. Andrew accidentally takes bribes to get people’s kids into summer camp. Andrew and Camille’s doctor retires and they have trouble finding a […]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “His teeth chattered when he tried to talk and he had to force his words out in little bits. It hurt his eyes to look so far at a horizon so hazy green and blue and there was only limited relief when he looked at the pathway immediately before his toes. Above all, he […]
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Posted on March 31st, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “Before the Cities, human life on Earth wasn’t so specialized that they couldn’t break loose and start all over on a raw world. They did it thirty times. But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.” The Caves of Steel by Isaac […]
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Posted on March 31st, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know. Yet we are no different from you of the outer worlds, only more unfortunate. We are crowded here on a world […]
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Posted on March 27th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “There he met friends of his, who looked at him with secrecy in their eyes and who met him at work later with bland glances of indifference. He listened to what they said and found that many seemed to believe what he had been hoarding in his own mind and honestly he had thought […]
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Posted on March 24th, 2024 by Dave Switzer | No Comments »
{4.5/5} “Of course, someday we will beat the Tyranni. It is fairly inevitable. They can’t rule forever. No one can. They’ll grow soft and lazy. They will intermarry and lose much of their separate traditions. They will become corrupt. But it may take centuries, because history doesn’t hurry.” The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov, […]
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