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Good question! Typically they get listed as fantasy because the magic isn’t manmade. Most definitions of science fiction require a human to have created the unrealistic element - or an extraterrestrial lifeform who is roughly analogous to a person. It’s not just that magic is present, but that it was derived from supernatural sources and not by human actions.
Fair enough as a term, but it was one of my minors in college. Authors use both.
Then I suggest you accept the common interpretation that “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”, is at least the first modern work of sci-fi.
Ah, you’ve read Heinlein and Lovecraft.
Okay. So what’s the first work of science fiction to you?
Let it Be? No, no. Let it Haiku.
Had me in the first half, ngl.
Uh-huh. The error was that they were caught doing it.
Weird but also romantic. At least it was her deceased husband’s heart, and not her living husband’s?
That’s a perspective on Mary Shelley that I hadn’t considered. But she was reasonably well-adjusted and popular. And yes I do consider Frankenstein to be the first English science fiction.
Never heard of that tool. Thank you for sharing it!
Personally? No. But I’m also not currently unemployed. There are others who are.
You’re absolutely right. No job in the USA should ever pay less than minimum wage. Costs will increase, but so will the average prosperity. If we can manage to deflate the currency and keep more domestic products here in the country, we’re all better off.
It won’t save anyone any money. American labor is expensive.
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Please. Let a court rule on whether a Nazi salute was made on US soil by a foreign actor in the current administration. Put it to the question. Then tell us if the court thinks that’s a problem.
Yes, but that’s a reasonable take, so it gets drowned out.
Tsuro is a very quick, Zen game. It’s tile placement and stone movement.
Obviously if you don’t like S.H., you probably won’t like The Resistance or Avalon. But from the same publisher, there’s Coup (a game of creative lying), and Grifters (an engine-builder made up of resource collection with a crime theme). I like them both and they’re very quick.
I don’t think Fluxx could lead to long term frustration, because it’s just so wild.
Catan is a classic and it’s never caused tempers in my group.
Too many people I know have relatives whose DNR has been violated. And that bugs me.