I was guilty of it a few times as well, we are all figuring this out 
. From now on if I dib it is in earnest.
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Iāve seen lots of people do it! And its not a big deal. 
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I love sci-fi too!
Dune,
Foundation/Asimov
All Robert Heinlin (Stranger in a strange land is good, but so is all his stuffā¦moon is a harsh mistress, the cat who walks through walls, the number of the beast, time enough for love, to sail beyond the sunset, methuselahs children, Friday)
Michael Crichton
Hyperion series,
ORSON SCOTT CARD! (Speaker for the dead is the best of the Ender series, but also Magic Street, Homecoming series, and my favorite single Sci-fi book of all, The Worthing Saga!
But In our library have a 4āx8ā bookshelf dedicated exclusively to sci-fiā¦ and itās full.
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Too bad heās such a terrible person. OSC that is
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Do tell @leetdood, I just read Wikipediaās spot on him and nadaā¦was Brigham young great great great grandson. No dirt though.
@Qtip Orson Scott Card - Wikipedia
link is to a specific section.
I know he is LDS, but what else?
See above link about his anti-LGBT stances.
If thereās a book, and a movie version, ALWAYS see the movie firstā¦
Jurassic Park woulda sucked if I read the book first, it was missing 2/3 of the book in the first movie.
The Firm (awesome movie and great soundtrack), Book had a different ending than the movie.
About the only one that I can say kept true to the books is The Lord of the Rings. The Uncut versions (not the reduced movie times for theatres versions). Peter Jackson did an amazing job of keeping the small details in. AND getting details right from the film (several scenes in the film ended up being exactly as I imagined when I read, almost as if I had seen them before). Having read LOTR 8 times now, I can certainly say all the small details are in the uncut versions.
The Hobbit, well, that was a disappointmentā¦ Adding characters to help the storyline, it wasnāt the same caliber as LOTR was to me. And Iāve read The Hobbit 5 times.
To me, LOTR was like the Wizard of Oz in when it came out. There were so many cool techniques developed to make those movies happenā¦ Especially for the epic battle scenesā¦
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Yup he is a shitheel.
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I hate that I love the enders game series. At least Harry Potter is bad enough that hating Rowlings easy.
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Rendezvous with Rama. Arthur C. Clarke! Great book as was Enders Game!!!
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Did not know this detail. Though to his credit he voiced the stance that most of the religious right hold whether they voice it or not.
A loud bigot is always better than a silent one.
He is wrong, and I hold opposite views on the subject, but sadly not really out of the mainstream.
And he writes damn good books.
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No, not surprising, but worth calling out every single time. Canāt let the bigots lurk in shadowsā¦even the shadow of a church.
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The real trick of preaching tolerance is tolerating the intolerant.
You wanna talk intolerant, Harry Turtledove. I read his book Homeward Bound at someoneās suggestion. I had no idea the bulk of the manās work was civil war revisionist fiction. Even as a science fiction writer, was that man ever angry.
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Wow, how about some free seeds?
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Whoa! What kind?
Sure hopefully something I donāt have
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Lol hell of a segue Doug!
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I mean yeah, sitting by the fire, my buddy passed out, projector has a Meatloaf video playing, whiskey in my glass, lol. Why not some Molokia Frost seeds?
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