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Hey! New Ontarian user here. I'm jumping ship from Reddit before my favorite app loses API access. It's a real shame Reddit went that route.
I'm a software developer by day. I love gaming, sci-fi/fantasy paper/audio books, metal and electronic music.
I hope Reddit suffers a serious exodus. Maybe the secret to ending the cycle of shitty corporate social media is to help with the open source federated approach?
What's your favourite sci-fi era? I'm quite partial to golden age, despite it's many many maaaannnny flaws. Just something about the idea that the author would set Mr Average Joe on an adventure, which he's quite prepared for, because everyone knows how to navigate in space.
Golden Age, based on your description, seems to fit the description of a lot of my favourite books. I have a hard time picking favourites, so here are a few series, plus a few singles, I absolutely loved:
For me its
I really enjoy books with a solar flare componet due to my being a ham radio op. I also love apocolypse books of nearly any type. Just no zombies as they freak me out
Right on. I'll take a look at these. I've got a bit of a backlog but most will end up on my wishlist.