Zohar Jacobs
@zoharjacobs.bsky.social
Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
I'd go for the Sally Rooney myself (never having read Sally Rooney), but have to say that the Ishiguro one doesn't sound very Ishiguro-like.
October 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I'd go for the Sally Rooney myself (never having read Sally Rooney), but have to say that the Ishiguro one doesn't sound very Ishiguro-like.
Congrats! Quite a star-studded ToC!
October 2, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Congrats! Quite a star-studded ToC!
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I regularly go through the NASA Apollo flickr archives looking for photos where the astronauts look silly. It's enrichment for me.
October 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I regularly go through the NASA Apollo flickr archives looking for photos where the astronauts look silly. It's enrichment for me.
Because it would be easier, cheaper and probably faster to get them there?
October 1, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Because it would be easier, cheaper and probably faster to get them there?
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We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
September 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
Thanks for the comparison, really useful. Though possibly one omission: how do they compare on price?
September 30, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Thanks for the comparison, really useful. Though possibly one omission: how do they compare on price?
Great suggestions so far, but for something more subcultural and edgy, how about John Rechy's "City of Night"? Hispanic hustler explores the underground gay (and trans) scene across America in the late 50s.
September 29, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Great suggestions so far, but for something more subcultural and edgy, how about John Rechy's "City of Night"? Hispanic hustler explores the underground gay (and trans) scene across America in the late 50s.