Tried NextCloud with Talk module?

“On the Quay at Smyrna” by Ernest Hemingway. A very short read, almost a vignette, but it left me depressed. Too on the nose for the current world situation.

NextCloud allows you to share a folder but for upload only.

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More than that, it’s the cloud services from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that worry me. Many IT shops are dependent on these services, so if the US regime decides to f- around with that, many companies outside will be screwed.

Silence will fall.

I enjoyed it a lot when I got it a few years ago. It’s quite a gem, actually, either as a standalone story or as an expansion to A New Hope.

There are some nuanced differences. Han Solo came across as more ruthless than the easygoing version of the movies, which made his change of heart more meaningful. The interludes on Alderaan give more background to the rebellion as well as amplify Leia’s loss. Darth Vader’s torture scene with Leia was intense.

Overall, it has the feel of an old time Flash Gordon serial.

Everything’s BIG in Texas!

Dance Dance Revolution.

(Do you feel old now?)

You can’t “flood the channels”, not if there’s someone who controls what you can say and hear. That’s the whole point of the dictatorship analogy.

If you like this type of science fiction, could I interest you in The Space Merchants and Gladiator At Law by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth? More prescient and much more biting, in my opinion. Also much earlier, having been written in the 1950s.

Will stock up for next time. Thanks for the idea!

That’s an idea. Next time…

Project Gutenberg has a pretty good science fiction selection, quite extensive in fact that I think it’s better to go by author than by individual works.

For the “classics” there’s H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, aside from Verne and Shelley whom you’ve already mentioned.

There are some surprising names, too, like Jack London, E.M. Forster, and Rudyard Kipling.

For golden age scifi: Frederic Brown, E.E. “Doc” Smith, CM Kornbluth, Jack Williamson, Frederic Pohl, Olaf Stapledon, and Andre Norton. Also, Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.

For your criteria, though, I would recommend looking for the works of Philip K. Dick and H. Beam Piper.