It’s back!
If you missed it the first time around, the “human are weird” anthology is back for a second printing. (There’s even a new story included: “Black Box” by Dara Brophy.)
Here’s the blurb:
In science fiction, humans are usually boring compared to other races: small, weak, with no claws or tentacles, and no special abilities to speak of. But what if we were the impressive ones, the unsettling ones, the ones talked about by all the other aliens? What if we're weird?
If you’d like a collection of excellent stories about humans inspiring awe, fear, and utter confusion, it’s available everywhere books are sold!
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Listening to a podcast interview with the directors of Treasure Planet, and one of the most fascinating things is when they talk about how the '90s Disney animation climate was all about making these prestige animated films with stories that could have been done in live action (Hunchback, Pocahontas), and these guys fought to make films that could only be done (or at least be best done) with animation. Because it's kind of the inverse of their current philosophy of making everything live action even if it's a story that's better in animation. So anyway if the live-action Treasure Planet thing is really happening, it's like spitting in the face of this movie's intent.
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I am a simple person, I am not immune to “Vulcan who wears heavy robes taking them off to help the Human with something and revealing they have nice arms, leaving the Human a blushing and distracted mess”
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Thinking about Five's self-destructiveness when it comes to the company he keeps and how he starts out as a fairly happy-go-lucky doctor, living life by his wits, then Adric dies and he leaves Tegan behind because he thinks its what she wants. Then she comes back and it's all happy for a bit. Then Nyssa, who's stuck by him this whole time, decides its time for her to leave and do some good in the world. But they (mostly) recover and move on. But in the span of his last few stories, everyone except the tardis team dies (twice!) and Tegan decides she can't take it anymore and runs off and this time there are no second chances. And before they can recover from that, he's forced to kill Kamelion and chooses not to help the master, instead letting him die, and pushes Turlough into leaving because its for the best. But Peri's bad at (or good at) reading the room and asks to travel with him, and the next episode he sacrifices himself to save her. And as he's dying he hears his companions telling him he has to live and the master telling him he must die.
In conclusion:
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There was a red flower on the desk where Kirk's dress uniform had been waiting for the laundryman, with a card reading "With the Hotel's Compliments."
Kirk smiled, picked up the flower, and with an elaborate flourish of his wrist inserted it in his buttonhole. When Pete's buddy Zack, playing the cat burglar, pretended to stun Kirk, he would grasp the flower as a last, sinking gesture. Tonight's entertainment was being played for royalty, after all.
How Much for Just the Planet by John M. Ford
Many people believe the T in James T. Kirk stands for "Tiberius," but it actually stands for "Total Drama Queen."
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