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You web writers have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits
Web writers, the AI has been trained on your public work, and it shows. You all have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits
HFY writers have taught AI it has to start stories with βBob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birthaβ. So AI does just that, even when
I was listening to a narration today. I did not know it was AI, as the introductory narration was pretty decent by free-on-the-web standards. Then it just broke with that and had some character I didnβt care about sitting somewhere. It was so bad it made me stop to check the comments, which confirmed the story was by an AI.
You all have such bad writing habits that the AI has learned to be not even as good. This is a lesson to us all. With computers, you must remember rubbish in; rubbish out (to my US readers, garbage in; garbage out).
It is probably because the LLM industry is so desperate for content to train on that it does not distinguish between writers learning to write and writers having learned to tell great stories with good introductions.
As a result, AI writing makes all the writing mistakes.
Filing this under Writing on OpenMentions.
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You web writers have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits
Web writers, the AI has been trained on your public work, and it shows. You all have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits
HFY writers have taught AI it has to start stories with βBob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birthaβ. So AI does just that, even when
I was listening to a narration today. I did not know it was AI, as the introductory narration was pretty decent by free-on-the-web standards. Then it just broke with that and had some character I didnβt care about sitting somewhere. It was so bad it made me stop to check the comments, which confirmed the story was by an AI.
You all have such bad writing habits that the AI has learned to be not even as good. This is a lesson to us all. With computers, you must remember rubbish in; rubbish out (to my US readers, garbage in; garbage out).
It is probably because the LLM industry is so desperate for content to train on that it does not distinguish between writers learning to write and writers having learned to tell great stories with good introductions.
As a result, AI writing makes all the writing mistakes.
Filing this under Writing on OpenMentions.
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#Roleplaying game based on #HFY stories where you can play as either a human or one of the many alien races.
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#Roleplaying game based on #HFY stories where you can play as either a human or one of the many alien races.
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π€ π THE APEX PROTOCOL π» youtu.be/IIpzdgxBq_I A trans-dimensional collective initiates a harvest. Surprisingly, it doesn't go quite as anticipated. HFY SciFi Paranormal ASTOT #audio #story #paranormal_things #errtling #bookcafe #writer #art #hfy #fiction
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π€ π THE APEX PROTOCOL π» youtu.be/IIpzdgxBq_I A trans-dimensional collective initiates a harvest. Surprisingly, it doesn't go quite as anticipated. HFY SciFi Paranormal ASTOT #audio #story #paranormal_things #errtling #bookcafe #writer #art #hfy #fiction
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Please, dear HFY writers, no more stories starting with βBob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birthaβ
Why do so many HFY stories start with the OC standing somewhere waiting for the opening thing to happen? Iβve lost track of the stories Iβve listened to or read that start with some chuckle-froggy in some location with the lights blinking or the tools shining. You have done that to death.
Please, dear HFY writers, stop doing this. Please, please, please stop.
Bob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birtha, the lights blinked normally⦠Zzz⦠this reader is asleep.
If I encounter one more HFY story that starts like this, I might scream!How many stories can copy the exact same start without putting us to sleep? Far less than currently exist, I can tell you that.
We do not currently care about your character or the location you want to describe. I, for one, do not give a single flying mouse bum about the normal day a fictional human was having. I might if the brown stuff was already hitting the spinning thing.
Screw that dull stuff! Tell me about the cool thing that happened. We can meet your point-of-view protagonist after the cool thing. But do the cool thing first, for the love of all that is good. Please.
When you are told to start βin media resβ (Latin for βin the midst of thingsβ), that does not mean in the middle of the normal day where the thing will go boom. Thatβs at the edge of the res (things), at best. More like somewhere with a view of the res, maybe. Are we there yet? So bluh!
Instead of blah, give me the Earth-shattering kaboom.
Explosions are cool. Unexpected terror is exciting. Bob sitting in the captainβs chair is boring.
More kaboom; less humans hanging out waiting for the story to happen, please.
If something is going to be on fire later. Start with it on fire right now. Thatβs the bit we came for.
Itβs dangerous to write alone, take this
Here are a bunch of opening lines. Steal them, reuse them, write some better openings with them. Do better. Write anything that is not Bob hanging out before the cool stuff happens.
The massive ship screamed from the sky, removing any notion that we were alone in the universe.
As the Trexians fired the first shot at the human colonists, they foolishly thought this would be a minor skirmish that would be over by mealtime.
Reality ripped and buckled, filling the void with impossible geometry. It lasted mere moments; in that time, an impossibly huge and intimidating brick of a ship had barged into normal space.
This wasnβt how space battles were supposed to go. Hundreds of coffin-sized projectiles were latching onto the hull. The deranged humans were bringing the fight into his distoryer.
It was a Thursday evening when the Vanashi entered Earthβs atmosphere right above the city to demand surrender. The locals were pissed. This was the semi-finals. How dare these fools interrupt the big game?
For some reason, the Atanaskara thought Earth was a good place to dump old battle stations. NASA tracked the massive lump after detecting it out past Jupiter. It followed a roughly calculated trajectory which almost hit the moon. More would soon follow.
Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started whenβ¦
To: Admiral Zazizch;
By: Encrypted Proxy 92a-256;
Re: Your plan failed
The humans were not intimidated at all. Send reinforcements. Encounter log attached.Earth was doomed. The greatest battle craft ever built by the Karnag would have the stupid little planet in firing range any moment now.
The third Blarge of Grune was the day Kamoss Varr asked a human child a simple question and instantly realised he was not cut out for teaching. He would have nightmares for the rest of his life.
The first words of your story have to make a promise. That promise must be βthis story is going to be worth your timeβ. Unless there is a genre of characters sitting about, Bob on his spaceship is not your opening. Jane, in her lab, is unlikely to be the cool thing. Liam, in his workshop, is just as dull. These people and these places are not exciting β theyβre not even interesting. What happened next might be, so skip to that bit.
So, please, writers of fiction on the interwebs, fewer people sitting on their bum and more cool things going kjaboom please.
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Please, dear HFY writers, no more stories starting with βBob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birthaβ
Why do so many HFY stories start with the OC standing somewhere waiting for the opening thing to happen? Iβve lost track of the stories Iβve listened to or read that start with some chuckle-froggy in some location with the lights blinking or the tools shining. You have done that to death.
Please, dear HFY writers, stop doing this. Please, please, please stop.
Bob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birtha, the lights blinked normally⦠Zzz⦠this reader is asleep.
If I encounter one more HFY story that starts like this, I might scream!How many stories can copy the exact same start without putting us to sleep? Far less than currently exist, I can tell you that.
We do not currently care about your character or the location you want to describe. I, for one, do not give a single flying mouse bum about the normal day a fictional human was having. I might if the brown stuff was already hitting the spinning thing.
Screw that dull stuff! Tell me about the cool thing that happened. We can meet your point-of-view protagonist after the cool thing. But do the cool thing first, for the love of all that is good. Please.
When you are told to start βin media resβ (Latin for βin the midst of thingsβ), that does not mean in the middle of the normal day where the thing will go boom. Thatβs at the edge of the res (things), at best. More like somewhere with a view of the res, maybe. Are we there yet? So bluh!
Instead of blah, give me the Earth-shattering kaboom.
Explosions are cool. Unexpected terror is exciting. Bob sitting in the captainβs chair is boring.
More kaboom; less humans hanging out waiting for the story to happen, please.
If something is going to be on fire later. Start with it on fire right now. Thatβs the bit we came for.
Itβs dangerous to write alone, take this
Here are a bunch of opening lines. Steal them, reuse them, write some better openings with them. Do better. Write anything that is not Bob hanging out before the cool stuff happens.
The massive ship screamed from the sky, removing any notion that we were alone in the universe.
As the Trexians fired the first shot at the human colonists, they foolishly thought this would be a minor skirmish that would be over by mealtime.
Reality ripped and buckled, filling the void with impossible geometry. It lasted mere moments; in that time, an impossibly huge and intimidating brick of a ship had barged into normal space.
This wasnβt how space battles were supposed to go. Hundreds of coffin-sized projectiles were latching onto the hull. The deranged humans were bringing the fight into his distoryer.
It was a Thursday evening when the Vanashi entered Earthβs atmosphere right above the city to demand surrender. The locals were pissed. This was the semi-finals. How dare these fools interrupt the big game?
For some reason, the Atanaskara thought Earth was a good place to dump old battle stations. NASA tracked the massive lump after detecting it out past Jupiter. It followed a roughly calculated trajectory which almost hit the moon. More would soon follow.
Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started whenβ¦
To: Admiral Zazizch;
By: Encrypted Proxy 92a-256;
Re: Your plan failed
The humans were not intimidated at all. Send reinforcements. Encounter log attached.Earth was doomed. The greatest battle craft ever built by the Karnag would have the stupid little planet in firing range any moment now.
The third Blarge of Grune was the day Kamoss Varr asked a human child a simple question and instantly realised he was not cut out for teaching. He would have nightmares for the rest of his life.
The first words of your story have to make a promise. That promise must be βthis story is going to be worth your timeβ. Unless there is a genre of characters sitting about, Bob on his spaceship is not your opening. Jane, in her lab, is unlikely to be the cool thing. Liam, in his workshop, is just as dull. These people and these places are not exciting β theyβre not even interesting. What happened next might be, so skip to that bit.
So, please, writers of fiction on the interwebs, fewer people sitting on their bum and more cool things going kjaboom please.
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A lot of the HFY ( Humanity, F**k Yeah!) Sci-Fi stuff on Reddit and YouTube very much fits into this category.
Mostly consisting of pesky aliens getting outclassed by or receiving a good thumping from humanity. It rarely portrays humanity as being the unreasonable party.
If you exclude this and the stories of lost alien princesses which fill the galaxy and continually need rescuing there are still some worthwhile stories but you have to hunt for them.
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A lot of the HFY ( Humanity, F**k Yeah!) Sci-Fi stuff on Reddit and YouTube very much fits into this category.
Mostly consisting of pesky aliens getting outclassed by or receiving a good thumping from humanity. It rarely portrays humanity as being the unreasonable party.
If you exclude this and the stories of lost alien princesses which fill the galaxy and continually need rescuing there are still some worthwhile stories but you have to hunt for them.
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We finally saw Project Hail Mary tonight in the theater. It was incredible. I needed to feel like that again. I'm glad every single person I know said to go see it. #projecthailmary #hfy
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When you consider the numbers, it's not at all surprising that landing on the moon is hard.
- The moon moves through space at an average of 3,680 km/h, depending on where it is in its orbit of Terra, varying between 3,492 and 3,888 km/h.
- The ground at the moon's equator is moving at a speed of 17 km/h.
- You start off in orbit at a speed of 5,760 km/h relative to the moon's surface.
- There is no atmosphere to help you stabilise your vectors in relation to the moon's surface by dragging you along.Humans, their brains integrating multiple inputs at the speed of thought and relying on muscle memory, found it hard. Computers, relying on radar, cameras, and directional sensors, are finding it extremely hard.
Which makes the successful unmanned landers all the more amazing.
HFY π
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When you consider the numbers, it's not at all surprising that landing on the moon is hard.
- The moon moves through space at an average of 3,680 km/h, depending on where it is in its orbit of Terra, varying between 3,492 and 3,888 km/h.
- The ground at the moon's equator is moving at a speed of 17 km/h.
- You start off in orbit at a speed of 5,760 km/h relative to the moon's surface.
- There is no atmosphere to help you stabilise your vectors in relation to the moon's surface by dragging you along.Humans, their brains integrating multiple inputs at the speed of thought and relying on muscle memory, found it hard. Computers, relying on radar, cameras, and directional sensors, are finding it extremely hard.
Which makes the successful unmanned landers all the more amazing.
HFY π
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I think about this short story a lot. I don't know what about it really sticks with me, but I like it. I think part of it is the joy of finding alien life, along with the disappointment that they're really just like us, hits hard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/631sm0/lablonnamedadon/
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ΒΏQuΓ© harΓas si la Luna se partiera en dos y el fin del mundo fuera inminente? ππ
"La Luna Rota" es un relato sobre la fragilidad de nuestra existencia, la ambiciΓ³n humana y esos pequeΓ±os momentos βcomo una comida en familiaβ que solo valoramos cuando todo estΓ‘ por terminar.
Puedes leer la historia completa aquΓ:
π https://nezzontli.xyz/blog/sueno/
#cienciaficcion #Relato #escritura #scifi #escrituracreativa #blog #hfy -
Galaxy Voted to Exterminate Earthβs Disabled β We Voted to Leave the Galaxy Instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdGgNEDuNVM
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Galaxy Voted to Exterminate Earthβs Disabled β We Voted to Leave the Galaxy Instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdGgNEDuNVM
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I just read The Road Not Taken by H. Turtledove. It was a really enjoyable short story... And well written. I liked it. It was a nice break from job seeking.
The idea of aliens inventing faster than light travel before they figure out electricity is certainly something I hadn't considered. And does make for an interesting story.
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I just read The Road Not Taken by H. Turtledove. It was a really enjoyable short story... And well written. I liked it. It was a nice break from job seeking.
The idea of aliens inventing faster than light travel before they figure out electricity is certainly something I hadn't considered. And does make for an interesting story.
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I've been listening to The Nature of Predators on Youtube with NetNarrator because its Reddit HFY stuff.
The premise is that omnivores are considered impossible and that theres only one carnivore species in the galaxy and they are at war with everyone else.
As it develops, it ends up playing on the title in a ton of ways that will surprise you, but essentially, with a #HFY #story what you want is to highlight a way humans are awesome. In this case we were the first to invent therapy #amReading
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I've been listening to The Nature of Predators on Youtube with NetNarrator because its Reddit HFY stuff.
The premise is that omnivores are considered impossible and that theres only one carnivore species in the galaxy and they are at war with everyone else.
As it develops, it ends up playing on the title in a ton of ways that will surprise you, but essentially, with a #HFY #story what you want is to highlight a way humans are awesome. In this case we were the first to invent therapy #amReading
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They Gave Water to a Stranded Human, So Humanity Ended Their Drought Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsDvgXFDPE
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The Day Humanity Arrived at the Deathworld Council⦠With Blood on Their Ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntf2pGAIDP0
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#Books and #stories for #AugustReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks
Eleven novels:
βββββ The Secret of ZI - Kenneth Bulmer
βββββ Times of Trouble {New John Connor Chronicles 3} - Russell Blackford
βββββ Case of the Murdered Mayor {Miles Grant 02} - Jack Dearborn
βββββ Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne #HFY
βββββ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard
βββββ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 03} - Jack Dearborn
βββββ Head On {Lock In 2} - John Scalzi
βββββ The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright {Middle Falls 10} - Shawn Inmon
βββββ The Timothy File {Miles Grant 04} - Jack Dearborn
βββββ The City {Aestus 1} - S. Z. Attwell #CliFi
βββββ Case of the Phantom Phaeton {Miles Grant 05} - Jack DearbornTwo novellas:
βββββ Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
βββββ Born in the Wrong Body - Martin Brant #transTwo novelettes:
βββββ Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms - Jack Campbell
βββββ Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite #queerTwenty-six short stories:
βββββ A Day Among the Liars - Edward Page Mitchell
βββββ Where Does a Circle Begin? - Jack Campbell
βββββ Natural - Peter Cawdron
βββββ Master - Ursula K. Le Guin
βββββ An Extraordinary Wedding - Edward Page Mitchell
βββββ The Great Naked Adventure - P.A. Choi
βββββ Living Eggs Project {Agent Adams 02} - Tim Tolbert
βββββ King of the Hill - James Blish
βββββ Nothing Happens to Lefty Feep {Lefty Feep 11} - Robert Bloch
βββββ End as a World - F. L. Wallace
βββββ Yellow Streak Hero - Harlan Ellison
βββββ Son of a Witch {Lefty Feep 6} - Robert Bloch
βββββ Entangled Vision {Agent Adams 03} - Tim Tolbert
βββββ Concerns of the Second Sex - Pavarti K. Tyler
βββββ The Soul Buyer - Keith Laumer
βββββ Jerk the Giant Killer {Lefty Feep 7} - Robert Bloch
βββββ Last Cruise of the Judas Iscariot - Edward Page Mitchell
βββββ Unnatural - Ann Christy
βββββ These Are the Times - Jack Campbell
βββββ The Sun Never Sets - Anthea Sharp
βββββ Sunspot - Hal Clement
βββββ Rocket to Limbo - Margaret St. Clair
βββββ Echoed Life Foundation {Agent Adams 04} - Tim Tolbert
βββββ The Witness - Leona Celestia
βββββ Lefty Feep and the Racing Robot {Lefty Feep 13} - Robert Bloch
βββββ The Devilish Rat - Edward Page Mitchellβββββββββββ
2025-08: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 11 nov
2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
βββββββββββOne very long, very slow novel knocked my reading down, but since I was reading three shorter novels each full week, not by much.
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#Books and #stories for #AugustReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks
Eleven novels:
βββββ The Secret of ZI - Kenneth Bulmer
βββββ Times of Trouble {New John Connor Chronicles 3} - Russell Blackford
βββββ Case of the Murdered Mayor {Miles Grant 02} - Jack Dearborn
βββββ Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne #HFY
βββββ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard
βββββ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 03} - Jack Dearborn
βββββ Head On {Lock In 2} - John Scalzi
βββββ The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright {Middle Falls 10} - Shawn Inmon
βββββ The Timothy File {Miles Grant 04} - Jack Dearborn
βββββ The City {Aestus 1} - S. Z. Attwell #CliFi
βββββ Case of the Phantom Phaeton {Miles Grant 05} - Jack DearbornTwo novellas:
βββββ Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
βββββ Born in the Wrong Body - Martin Brant #transTwo novelettes:
βββββ Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms - Jack Campbell
βββββ Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite #queerTwenty-six short stories:
βββββ A Day Among the Liars - Edward Page Mitchell
βββββ Where Does a Circle Begin? - Jack Campbell
βββββ Natural - Peter Cawdron
βββββ Master - Ursula K. Le Guin
βββββ An Extraordinary Wedding - Edward Page Mitchell
βββββ The Great Naked Adventure - P.A. Choi
βββββ Living Eggs Project {Agent Adams 02} - Tim Tolbert
βββββ King of the Hill - James Blish
βββββ Nothing Happens to Lefty Feep {Lefty Feep 11} - Robert Bloch
βββββ End as a World - F. L. Wallace
βββββ Yellow Streak Hero - Harlan Ellison
βββββ Son of a Witch {Lefty Feep 6} - Robert Bloch
βββββ Entangled Vision {Agent Adams 03} - Tim Tolbert
βββββ Concerns of the Second Sex - Pavarti K. Tyler
βββββ The Soul Buyer - Keith Laumer
βββββ Jerk the Giant Killer {Lefty Feep 7} - Robert Bloch
βββββ Last Cruise of the Judas Iscariot - Edward Page Mitchell
βββββ Unnatural - Ann Christy
βββββ These Are the Times - Jack Campbell
βββββ The Sun Never Sets - Anthea Sharp
βββββ Sunspot - Hal Clement
βββββ Rocket to Limbo - Margaret St. Clair
βββββ Echoed Life Foundation {Agent Adams 04} - Tim Tolbert
βββββ The Witness - Leona Celestia
βββββ Lefty Feep and the Racing Robot {Lefty Feep 13} - Robert Bloch
βββββ The Devilish Rat - Edward Page Mitchellβββββββββββ
2025-08: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 11 nov
2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
βββββββββββOne very long, very slow novel knocked my reading down, but since I was reading three shorter novels each full week, not by much.
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Alien Survival Game Banned Tech⦠Humans Had Fire, Tools, and Weapons Before Aliens Even Made Camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6woKpZMKo8
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Alien Survival Game Banned Tech⦠Humans Had Fire, Tools, and Weapons Before Aliens Even Made Camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6woKpZMKo8
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CW: fictional warcrimes, taking things seriously for comedic effect
A fandom I'm in for an HFY story frequently gets the tired old "Geneva Conventions more like Geneva Checklist amirite let's go torture some xenos" """jokes"""
So a few of us other, more sensible fans have decided to actually look at the Geneva Conventions, and, uh.I think that with the right attitude, "Geneva Checklist" would actually be really funny at the expense of precisely the kind of people who make the tired sadistic jokes.
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Left to Die in SpaceβThen a Human Ship Pierced Through the Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8IPFHBas0
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I could stand to see more HFY stories where humans and their alien companions get really lucky because of some particularly niche evolution that we went through. Like, I love the ones where we're just space orcs, but...
The human nose is incredibly sensitive to the compound geosmin, and we don't exactly know why. But it's part of the bouquet of "wet ground after a rainstorm," and it's thought maybe our ancestors used it to find water in arid climates. But here's the thing: it's incredibly specific to this planet! The compound is created by algae and bacteria, and it becomes airborne when the rain soaks into the ground and pushes the air out of the earth (where the geosmin is concentrated) into the local atmosphere. There's no particular reason to believe there'd be a correlation between rain and geosmin in the atmosphere on any other planet, just this one.
Be kind of funny if it were correlated with something else and aliens started putting humans on their away teams as sort of bloodhounds.
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I could stand to see more HFY stories where humans and their alien companions get really lucky because of some particularly niche evolution that we went through. Like, I love the ones where we're just space orcs, but...
The human nose is incredibly sensitive to the compound geosmin, and we don't exactly know why. But it's part of the bouquet of "wet ground after a rainstorm," and it's thought maybe our ancestors used it to find water in arid climates. But here's the thing: it's incredibly specific to this planet! The compound is created by algae and bacteria, and it becomes airborne when the rain soaks into the ground and pushes the air out of the earth (where the geosmin is concentrated) into the local atmosphere. There's no particular reason to believe there'd be a correlation between rain and geosmin in the atmosphere on any other planet, just this one.
Be kind of funny if it were correlated with something else and aliens started putting humans on their away teams as sort of bloodhounds.
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I follow the #HFY story The New Species/The New Threat/The New Era and when I am thinking about that sort of story I ask "what human quality are they celebrating?" And in that case it is "Humans embody entropy" but in a very charming way because the Omni Union just doesnt believe in entropy and took it to the extreme. #amReading #reddit #sciFi
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I follow the #HFY story The New Species/The New Threat/The New Era and when I am thinking about that sort of story I ask "what human quality are they celebrating?" And in that case it is "Humans embody entropy" but in a very charming way because the Omni Union just doesnt believe in entropy and took it to the extreme. #amReading #reddit #sciFi
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I read #HFY stories, so I obviously have no problems with them. But I find that I do have an issue when the #SciFi story I'm reading suddenly decides forty percent in that it's a #HumanityFuckYeah tale. I was in a different headspace.
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### #Books and #stories for #JanuaryReads.
~500 words | Tag to mute: #BokBooksNine novels:ΒΉ
βββββ Hidden Things - P.Z. Walker {Emma Nelson 3} #mystery
βββββ 1638: The Sovereign States - Flint, Huff, Goodlett {USSR 4} #AltHist
βββββ Ashes, Ashes - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 11} #HFY
βββββ A Diogenes Club for the Czar - Huff, Goodlett {Miroslava Holmes 4}
βββββ The Council on Jerusalem - Pierre E Pettinger Jr {Sodality Universe 5} #SpaceOpera
βββββ Usurpation {Semiosis 3} - Sue Burke #SFF
βββββ Murder in the Tool Library - A.E. Marling #solarpunk
βββββ Zero Sum Game - S.L. Huang {Cas Russell 1} #thriller
βββββ Paradigms Lost - Ryk E. Spoor {Digital Knight}Zero novellas. Again.Β²
Five novelettes:
βββββ Doctor Satan - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 1} #WeirdTales
βββββ The Man Who Chained the Lightning - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 2}
βββββ Mask of Death - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 8} #pulp
βββββ The Raid on the Termites - Paul Ernst #VintageSciFi
βββββ Marooned Under the Sea - Paul ErnstTwenty-six short stories:
βββββ Deus Ex Machina - Francis G. Rayer
βββββ The Land of Lost Content - Chad Oliver
βββββ The Mercenaries - H. Beam Piper
βββββ Immersion - Aliette de Bodard
βββββ Metal Like Blood in the Dark - T. Kingfisher
βββββ The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir - Karin Tidbeck
βββββ Lorelei Street - Rog Phillips
βββββ Morrigan in the Sunglare - Seth Dickinson
βββββ The Ormolu Clock - August Derleth
βββββ World Behind the Moon - Paul Ernst
βββββ Man from Beyond - John Wyndham
βββββ Home to Mother - Manly Wade Wellman
βββββ Space is for Suckers - Rog Phillips
βββββ Scanners Live in Vain - Cordwainer Smith #ClassicSciFi
βββββ Voyage to Queensthroat - Anya Johanna DeNiro #trans
βββββ Belladonna Nights - Alastair Reynolds
βββββ The Old Dispensation - Lavie Tidhar
βββββ A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
βββββ A Stitch in Time - John Wyndham
βββββ The Lady Killer - Rog Phillips
βββββ Gallery - Rog Phillips
βββββ Tower of Babble - Robert Abernathy
βββββ But a Kind of Ghost - John Wyndham
βββββ The Black Ewe - Fritz Leiber Jr.
βββββ Live in an Orbit and Love It! - Rog Phillips
βββββ Lost Bomb - Rog Phillips (ss) 19502025-01: 26 ss | 05 nvt | 00 nva | 09 nov
2024-12: 31 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2024-11: 39 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 05 nov
2024-10: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 06 novI shifted to Monday-start weeks this month, which was fine. I also switched to midnight-start days, which wasn't. I'm going back to 8am starts, since half of my reading is done after midnight, and I sometimes forget that I must get a story done before midnight to fit the calendar.
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[1] A reply to this post repeats brief descriptions of the novels. For descriptions of the shorter tales, see the weekly posts. Most short stories this month come from single-author collections (Paul Ernst, Rog Phillips, John Wyndham) or multi-author anthologies:
New Adventures in Space Opera - Jonathan Strahan, ed.
Legends of Science Fiction: 1950 - Christopher Broschell, ed.[2] This category is not likely to ever get high, but zero annoys me, so for next month I dug up something that proclaims it's a novella on the cover. Though the middle story in the trilogy is half again as long, and the finale is more than twice that.
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One of the tropes the #HFY stories likes to push is that humans are *so* unpredictable...
In stories that are *extremely* predicable. π€
Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. Formula fiction has its place.
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The Last Species That Made Earth Go Silent... They're Still Running | HFY | SCI FI Story #HFY #SciFi #SpaceOpera #TimeTravel #HumanityFY #AlienInvasion #SciFiStory #SpaceFantasy #GalacticEmpire #CosmicHorror #SpaceExploration #ScienceFiction #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQGss4jy5Q
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #173: Yakutsk, Siberia.
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#brr #yakutsk #siberia #russia #arctic #places #geography #science #cold #didyouknow #funfacts #wtf #strangebuttrue #trivia #comics #comic #webcomics #webcomic #humanityfuckyeah #hfy #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
