• lenuup@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Other way around. If your fantasy / sci-fi novel does not sell well, rebrand it as a new groundbreaking “history”. Include how it gets ridiculed by main stream science that does maliciously ignore all the evidence.

    You have instantly gained a huge, uncritical customer and fan base.

    Edited a few typos.

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          18 hours ago

          Seriously? I heard it was one of the worst movies of all time so I stayed away. Or was it because of the scientology? Like if I ignore that, is it pretty decent?

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            It’s a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it’s good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.

            Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.

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              I never saw the movie, but I can accept mediocre for the book. I thought it was a fun take aliens and alternative history. The writing style is a bit like a morally superior american, but I can read past that (…I guess, because I completely forgot that part).

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                10 hours ago

                It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I remeber it being medicore late golden era. Hubbard had no understanding of radiation and his characters tended to be good or evil without a lot of nuance.

                *Hubbard/Herbert

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              17 hours ago

              “verges on so bad it’s good” so to me that says that it’s about as bad as it can possibly get, before crossing the line into something I can laugh at, would that be an accurate representation?

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                17 hours ago

                Yeah, drunk or stoned with a group of SF nerds shit talking it would be a fun party, actually.

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                    16 hours ago

                    Yes, but I would recommend being fucked up and in the company of others.

                    Don’t go there alone or you will only find sadness and anger.