Bet you anything they're going to try to put it in phones, hell they probably already have.
OryxAndCake
joined 5 months ago
I read a lot of scifi and it's by far my favourite genre of anything.
I'm on a bit of a reading roll this year so far and have been averaging a book a week, I haven't been consuming books at this rate since I was a teenager!
I finished Children Of Time last week and managed to get in The Scar (China Mieville) before my copies of Children of Ruin and Children Of Memory arrived, and now I'm about half way through Ruin.
The 'Children Of' books are fantastic, we all know this by now, but only read The Scar if you can deal with a vast 800 page anti-epic with an utterly unpleasant anti-hero at its helm. And the ending, while very fitting thematically, otherwise sucks. There is no catharsis and the anti-hero clearly doesn't learn anything, despite (again) writing otherwise in their letter.
The world building in The Scar is stunning though (albeit rather puissant...), and the characters, despite being nearly entierly all awful people*, are very well written. Plus there's a very clearly lifted from The Matrix fight scene at once point which got a giggle out of me when I recognised it.
*Tanner is a good man, and so is Doul, probably. Doul is also quite funny, but the humour of his actions mostly lands in hindsight once you've got a better idea of his character/motivations
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Favourites wise though (the rest of this comment is copied over from a previous one I made elsewhere but I feel might be appreciated here more), I reread Year Of The Flood by Margarete Attwood every summer lately. Toby and her little rituals are very comforting.
YotF was the first one I read of the Oryx And Crake trilogy too, but it doesn’t make for quite as good a username with all those christian connotations.
I’ve read all the books in the correct order several times since then, but I far prefer reading O&C after YotF, it makes Maddaddam feel so much more cathartic and deserved and it really improves the pacing. The slow build up in YotF, leading to all the action and exposition in O&C and then winding down in Maddaddam and the story coming back to Toby, flows so much better as a three book narrative. Also piecing everything together with this order is much more interesting too imo.
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This is the first cat I've ever seen that has managed to look sleazy.
Anyway, congrats on blocking me dumbass and if you've actually managed to read and take in any of the pages I've linked, have you now got a slightly better understanding of how monumentally fucked we are?
So, what are you going to do now?
Are you going to protest? Do you think that will do anything? Lmao, maybe you'll make some friends and have a nice little solidarity about the state of things with them. I hear prison sucks though, and climate protesters keep getting jailed these days.
Are you going to go vegan? That would be a huge positive impact you could make of as it would reduce the carbon emissions and soil degridation impact slightly from animal agriculture. Most people though, even climate scientists and climate activists, won't go vegan. So probably not that either.
Maybe you'll forgo procreating, each human produces a trully staggering amount of carbon (I'm just guessing that you're in the US, look up your country if not). That would be very kind to your potential offspring too as the upcoming droughts and famines are going to kill billions globally.
Who knows, maybe you'll even live out your angry edgelord dreams and drone strike a billionaire.
Or hey, maybe against all odds you'll wake up one day and realise that somehow, you're suddenly some kind of god-wizard capable of rewriting the laws of physics! How exciting. You could really make a difference this way.
You'd probably need to fundamentally change human nature too though because there's no way our species isn't going to do this again if you'll let them.
Personally, as I don't believe in the power of duex ex machina and am not interested in doing something profoundly stupid to land myself in prison, I'm just going to keep being vegan and childfree, and I'm going to try to enjoy the last of the abundance till the food runs out and/or these tumours kill me.
P.S. If you really want our species to survive 4.5c by 2060 and not go extinct by the end of the century, you should aim for god-wizard.
Lmao, this [as in your initial comment] isn't my fight because I'm not going around telling people I'm going to kill the billionaires with my badass drone skills. That was you, buddy.
This [climate collapse, resource depletion, billionaires, capitalism, etc] also isn't my fight because I'm not interested in larping at being a physics defying wizard capable of rewriting reality.
I'm not rich or 'owning class' either, and I wasn't yelling at you. I was mocking you.
What do you actually know about climate collapse and resource depletion? If you'd care to actually learn something about the state of the world we live in, you might understand why I'm such a pessamistic misanthrope.
Did you know that 90% of earths topsoil is at risk of depletion by 2050? That's what all the food grows in btw. Without arable land, there is no way to feed 8+ billion people.
Did you know that global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030? Our planet will be 40% over capacity on fresh water resources globally by 2030. Without fresh water, we can't grow food and hydrate 8+ billion people.
Did you know that our global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity?
Did you know that global carbon emissions are still rising?
Did you know that the latest CFSv2 model runs now show the Nino 3.4 SST anomaly forecast peaking at 4.10°C in November.
Do you know what a blue ocean event is? Do you want to follow along with daily updates on the arctic sea ice extent?
Did you know that June 2026 came in as the second warmest on record since 1940 at 1.39°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, second only to 2024 at 1.50°C above the baseline?
Did you know that the world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. But can you guess what these guys aren't measuring that will impact this massively?
The answer is a nice call back to the Blue Ocean Event you hopefully just learned about, because did you know that 4.5c above the baseline by 2060 is possible?
Would you like me to go on? There is so much more we haven't even touched upon yet, but this post is long enough as it is.
I've not read the Tyrant Philosophers books yet, thanks for the heads up! At some point I'll cycle back around to craving the company of depressing as fuck literature, so I'll put them on that list.