I wish Gene had lived to see the Star Trek universe
I wish any of us could live to see the Star Trek universe. I doubt a child born today will live to see it. It remains to be seen if we can ever stop backstabbing people in service of a false hierarchy.
Took me way too long to realize we weren’t talking about SanFran or Salesforce.
I thought Sci-Fi would be the preferred short form of Science Fiction, to be honest.
Adrian Tchaikovsky wrote Children of Time, one of my favorite sci-fi novels. Most sci-fi is based on futuristic physics and technology; Children of Time is based on futuristic evolutionary biology. And it’s every bit as cool as it sounds.
That’s probably not what he’s talking about here but hey, free book recommendation
’May you live in interesting times’ is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld, especially on the distinctly unmagical Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life and can’t even spell wizard.