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quasi-normalcy · 8 months ago

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I have, in the past, enjoyed Robert J. Sawyer's novels, but there's this one book that came out in, like, 2014 where the premise was that someone scientifically proved that everyone who doesn't agree with him is either a psychopath or a philosophical zombie, and it's just like...No, This Is Not The Way.

#quantum night #robert j sawyer

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ghost-of-books · 5 months ago

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#book blog #books and reading #new books #science fiction #hungarian #robert j sawyer

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dibator · 11 months ago

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The Downloaded by Robert J Sawyer

SHADOWPAW PRESS The new novel from Canada’s top science-fiction writer THE DOWNLOADED ROBERT J. SAWYER In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth’s first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But when…

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#Canadian authors #Creative Edge Publicity #Robert J Sawyer #science fiction #Shadowpaw Press #The Downloaded

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quotefeeling · 1 year ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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thoughtkick · 7 months ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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perfectfeelings · 1 year ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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resqectable · 4 months ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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quotemadness · 2 years ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

#Robert J. Sawyer #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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perfeqt · 9 months ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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thepersonalwords · 1 year ago

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“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” - Robert J. Sawyer

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lovepollution · 1 year ago

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Luke Kirby behind-the-scenes of the recording of 'The Downloaded' [x]

#luke kirby #the downloaded #robert j. sawyer #audible #look at hiiiiiiiiiim!#rolled up shirt sleeves are my kryptonite #mine

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surqrised · 2 years ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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thanatika · 2 months ago

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low-coherency rambling in the tags

#the thing about IPL is that‚ at least as far as i see it‚ they've essentially been propagating and encouraging an auteur myth regarding him #which is nothing new or unique to them; i think that people (audiences) naturally want to ascribe some Great Man Theory to everything #it's hard to conceptualize the fact that almost anything that comes from a ''studio'' will be the product of collaboration #people naturally want to personify things and attach a human face to what they like #and studios (whether game or whatever else) will indulge this by generally seeming to pick one or maybe two people (often men)#to essentially be the main ''face'' or ''spokesperson'' for the product. it's branding.#and it has an effect even if people obviously are aware that someone isnt the ONLY person who's hands touch a work #i see it in the way people take this very personal parasocial tone in how they talk about the creators they like #which is just a subset of the problem of parasociality in general but in this case i mean how they basically put these people on a pedestal #because they seem them as singularly responsible for creating Thing They Liked because of the aforementioned spokesmanship #i've seen it in how people talk about (and talk to) j sawyer and chris avellone as if they're singularly responsible for fallout #anthony burch and borderlands 2. christian linke and arcane #robert kurvitz and disco elysium (but to be very clear im not saying that makes cutting him out of his own intellectual property acceptable #fucking i don't know.... jeff kaplan and overwatch lmao #and very much with dybowski and pathologic. like the kind of memes i saw people make about him and the personal way they'd refer to him #BUT that pretty much all stopped after 2021 or so at least in the fandom spaces i saw #because i suppose people realized that whether those rumors and allegations were true or not that they did not really know this person #no matter how much they liked ''his'' game. and that he might not be a good person at all.#which is good. i think people should take that kind of ambivalence by default instead of getting parasocially attached to anyone #especially to one lead figure out of an entire studio #and then winding up distraught and disappointed when it turns out their fave did something bad #like be distraught for victims sure. but don't tell yourself you understand this person because their fiction spoke to you #and you won't wind up feeling personally betrayed.#i'm rambling big time but basically i hope people start taking this view more #because among other things. putting these people on pedestals and singling them out as auteurs gives them social power #which allows some of them to engage in the awful behavior that leaves fans feeling betrayed in the first place #and i hope that studios and creators stop leaning into it too #if it really is true that dybowski is barely involved with the IP anymore then IPL should say that.#don't prop him up as the face just because he's the one everyone knows #maybe they think it'll get backlash if anyone but him is said to be writing the game because of how much they leaned into him as the auteur

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dibator · 1 year ago

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Mark Morton’s debut YA novel, The Headmasters, from Shadowpaw Press February 6 2024

Mark Morton’s debut YA novel, The Headmasters, called “a brilliant science-fiction debut” by Robert J. Sawyer, releases February 6 from Shadowpaw Press Noted Canadian non-fiction author and long-time CBC columnist Mark Morton makes his debut as a novelist with The Headmasters, coming February 6 from Shadowpaw Press; a gripping, provocative post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult tale that asks…

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#CreativeEdgePublicity #Mark Morton #Ontario Canada #Robert J Sawyer #Shadowpaw Press #The Headmasters #YA science fiction

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authorappearances · 1 year ago

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Robert J. Sawyer in FlashForward

Robert J. Sawyer’s 1999 novel FlashForward was adapted into the TV series of the same name which aired between September 2009 and May 2010. In the pilot episode Sawyer cameos as ‘Man on Cell Phone’ at the hospital.

#robert j. sawyer #flashforward #sonya walger

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thoughtkick · 2 years ago

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

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