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Well, that and romancing, and dealing with the kids.

Glad to help! Having more names for things enables goofiness about more things.

There’s collapse before the biggest and then the last of the wars. Mad Max makes brief but explicit mention of escalating resource depletion. The absence of innovative tech is part of the point - it’s no longer feasible, at least for social edges like Max’s (We don’t have enough to guess what...

The original Mad Max is a story of near-future society in the midst of collapse, an unusual moment to capture on screen and very much science-fictional.

I think of Silent Running as the last big af deal before Star Wars, but then I’m not fond of Logan’s Run. Like a lot of others, it’s no worse than ones o do, it just didn’t click for me.

Of course I am! The soteriology of RPGs is not to be taken lightly!

Really true about Stygian Librery. It’d fit most World of Darkness games, other modern strangeness, would liven up a lot of spacefaring games, the whole deal.

The kids have good taste! Guardians 3 is no worse than a bunch of films I love, and objectively better than a bunch of them. No criticisms.

Buckaroo Banzai would easily make a favorites list for me. It’s a latter-day pulp classic with an awesome soundtrack. Taken on its own, Iron Man is definitely an sf adventure.

I’d gladly buy a trimmed It like that.

Seconds has Evil Will Geer! Stunning little movie. And Kafka! I love that movie, and almost nobody ever saw it. The bit with Jeremy Irons and Ian Holm facing off is so great. And Stalker! Mmmmm. This is a great list.

“🎵 A pretty girl is like a malady 🎶” “Don’t you mean melody?” “You don’t know Natasha!” —Boris and Bullwinkle

Jim Thompson is pretty amazing.

Well, you’ll notice I put Star Wars in the science fantasy hinterland. Depending on the version, I’d probably do the same with Flash Gordon.

In my developer days, I was always really happy when someone else put out a game book that covered things overlapping with what I was handling, but in ways I didn’t think we could do well and didn’t want to botch. It freed me from feeling obliged to try some anyway.

Damon Knight, an sf author, editor, and critic of fundamental importance to the field, once defined sf as distinguished from fantasy in appealing to the authority of science as justification for its inventions. This doesn’t mean that only hard sf is sf, or other only sf that uses science well is...

Another Tangerine Dream veteran you may enjoy. These are in my mix of stuff to listen to when I am collapsing under acute stress and need relief. “Far Way Trains Passing By” has one of the niftiest set of musical elements to evoke trains I know of.

I didn’t set out to make this Bruce’s Weird Music Corner Day, but the YouTube algorithm is on a roll and so am I.

Yeah, it seems like they and Derbyshire have pacts with the same patron.

Hey, you know what YouTube did after I spent an hour looking up classic electronic riffs on classical music? It gave me this. They put out an album in 2012; it’s in Apple Music.