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I can't recommend The Sparrow enough!! ❤
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Keep the recommendations coming! I just finished Sharp Objects that you recommended. OMG, it was amazingly horrifying.
Catholic church sending a space expedition. Ha ha, nice one.
Quinn’s Ideas did a video on this one
"Imagine the Catholic church-"
Shudders
I've read that one and it was interesting, although it took a while to get to the juicy part. I was considering dropping it for like the first half, but I pushed through and past a certain point I quite enjoyed it. A neat detail I liked is that the aliens they made contact with spoke a different language than the one they heard in the original signal. It added some realism.
Seconding the recommendation. Fantastic book.
Not necessarily a book, but the game Mouthwashing is in a similar vein, and a story that literally starts and ends with "I hope this hurts". It's an incredibly visceral game about a freighter crew that crashes into an asteroid, and what happened around that pivotal moment. I wouldn't necessarily recommend playing it unless you have a strong stomach, I really do mean it when I say it is VERY visceral, but I really don't think the story should be slept on… So, experience it how you will. It's amazing, and it hurts.
The Books of the Wars is an anthology of the most depressing texts I've ever read, written by someone who was drafted out of their postgraduate to 'Nam.
“Do you like books-“
Nope. They hurt my eyes and give me headaches.
Next short
Is the one where there is a robot alien that explores the entire universe to catch people and torture them for all eternity?
for a sec i thought this was gonna be Sisters of the Vast Black with the Catholic church, but it's not really uncomfortable
Is that the one where the star of bethlehem was nova'd along with the planet that orbited it?
Sounds like a spiritual take on Peter Watt's Firefall duology
If such books interest you, then you should check out what I have to offer. Free to read and unlike anything else out there.
But I have a feeling you will prove to be just like all the other creators who ignore me. Oh well.
You want uncomfortable? Jonathon Littel's "The Kindly Ones" fits the bill…
This reminds me that the Qur'an directly tells us "to go ahead and penetrate beyond the heavens and the earth if we so can, but power comes only from Allah" (Qur'an 55:33). There is of course more than one interpretation, and the primary import is as a reminder that He is the source of all power, but another is that we should be wary of doing so without first setting things right here on the earth.
Great now I’m thinking of an alternate universe where the Catholic Church has an interstellar empire.
I wouldn't say I like them… they're part of a balanced intellectual diet but I'd prefer ones that don't make me uncomfortable for my staples, as it were.
It was Oryx and Crake for me. Back in college, I didn't read sci-fi, never have heard of Margaret Atwood, and didn't know what to expect at all. I wasn't ready for the future that Shadow, with all his knowledge, had to navigate with caution.
Usually anything religious flys over my head, but this sounds Fascinating!
Well, I just have one question "Why does god need a space ship?"
When you asked if we like books that make us uncomfortable, I immediately thought of _The Sparrow_…. I guess it made an impression on me!
Oh that book. I first heard of it when Lindsay Ellis spoiled the ending in a tweet advertising her own book.
A book that made me feel uncomfortable was A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
It's set in a post-apocalyptic future after humanity has destroyed itself with nuclear war. The story follows a monastery of monks trying to preserve what knowledge they can before it is lost. The mental image that has stayed with me the most is the monks copying machinery blueprints and illuminating them with delicate illustrations like medieval monks.
Sounds bit like Hyperion.
I need your help! I’ve been binging a lot of your content recently and in one vid you mentioned “a girl who was brought back from the dead, then everyone begins to look like her because her reincarnation is a virus”.
But, I can’t find it again to get the name of the book. What was that one, please?
"Do humans even want to meet alien life?" I don't know but I know alien life regrets meeting humans. Get me off this planet please, it has too much ruining of nature and capitalism and stuff. At least some parts are good.
You lost me at Catholic Church sending some kind of expedition to the stars.
Also try James Blish's A Case of Conscience.