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a more formal beehaw introduction thread (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/chat

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the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the "how was your week" thread isn't a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples' posts aren't getting lost.

tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don't gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this'll be a good way of getting to know all the people you're now on here with

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[–] GooseDwarf 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terry Pratchett is my go to for fantasy, I absolutely adore Discworld. A series I don't hear about as much though, is the Dragon Weather trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I highly recommend it!

As far as scifi, I'm mostly in a cyberpunk kick at the moment. I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was quite good. Other than that, I can recommend William Gibson, with the sprawl trilogy that helped define modern cyberpunk.

As far as more traditional scifi, aside from Adam's, whose work is amazing, I enjoy the Ender's Game series, but acknowledge that Card was a bit problematic, especially with his later writing having more Mormon beliefs shining through. I also am a fan of Andy Weir's The Martian and Project Hail Mary. They're entertaining, but some people don't like how they perceive his writing to be full of deus ex machina. I enjoy seeing how his characters overcome the problems.

I've never heard of Ursula Le Guin, I'll have to check them out

[–] StringTheory 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! These are great suggestions