Having escaped their pages, many wild books roam history now. Venomous plot threads ensnare the unlucky, turn their lives into narratives.
And thereâs always the great http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ #lisp
@kas@enotty.dk I have a kobo, but i actually need it to read books. I bookmarked the page in case i ever get a replacement⊠:)
âyouâre so deep in the closet, if I went to fetch you theyâd write a book about my adventures and call it chronicles of narniaâ
Really liked A Closed and Common Orbit, nice to read a scifi story about character development! Next book: Arkwright by Allen Steele
among memes, there are pioneer species that establish a cultural shared context that other memes then settle (e.g. books and other OC)
Weird, the same repice serves 8 to 10 ppl in the book. I canât believe we eat the whole pot alone⊠:) Happy you liked it!
Druids, stranded on an island, build a Frankenstein tree out of driftwood, rip the pages out of books to give it leaves
The book has long ended but somehow thereâs always another page behind the last one. You keep reading. The hero settles down, has children,
The witchâs books lose their pages in autumn and are reduced to their spines in winter. But each spring, theyâll grow new knowledge.
status: reading books by the light of the burning library
books grow in this library, ripe with memetic spores, fruiting bodies of an extensive mythelium system that supplies them with ideas
itâs a bit sad, but displaying books on shelves when you could just keep them on hard drives feels hollow and fake now, and I love books
Right, they booked the safari! Thunderclaps resound. In the distance, a few trees stiffen and collapse.â”Your chair massages your back.
Rinse a few books with the same flask of Lethe and you may actually gain memories from drinking it. Tastes vile, procedure not recommended.
mind virus: words only, needs a host brainâ”mind bacterium: tiny self-sufficient mind, can infect brains but is perfectly happy to eat books
reanimated trees are sickly, pale, infused with the necromancerâs thoughts instead of their own - books are zombie trees
At some point, we stop storing knowledge in books and just archive entire minds to resurrect when needed. To attain immortality, know.
museum of empty receptacles: a vase, a book of white pages, a vacant human body, a wordless sentence (all breath and pauses), a vain promise
world words, holographic carriers of meaning from which you can reconstruct the entire book, language, society, universe
New passages are set aside and brought into order in the hope of identifying the intruding book, but none of the librarians recognize it.
Letters scramble into the margins as you open the book. It seems you accidentally opened a hive. Ink figures start crawling up your arm.
Books hang off the authorâs mind, fat and lazy memetic ticks, yet she works tirelessly to feed them. What is it with these authors?
You open the book to wind up a music box attached to its back. With every chapter, a new soundtrack slides into place and plays.
Books of lost knowledge materialize in the secret library every day. Their pages vanish under the readerâs eye as their secrets are un-lost.
In the evening, acolytes bring empty pages, unformed clay and caged parrots. In the morning, they carry away books, sculptures and songs.
Quills used for spell books must withstand strong magical currents, but also be magically inert unlike wandwood.
an anagrammatical book that makes sense even if its pages have been shuffled
Every page of my earth orbit book opens a portal to space. Found an NSA satellite in it once, glued a fly to its camera to mess with them.
sheâs reading me like a book: staring at me, thumbing through pages I didnât know I had, leaving coffee stains, discarding me for the day
âIn parts of the Library of Babel, a hot wind blows through the shafts. It feeds a titanic blaze, trillions of books and more.â
burn the books, free the storiesâ”let the great herds of ages past thunder againâ”and run among them like the old bards
wild stories roam dreamtime and gobble up drifting imagesâ”dreamers hunt them for sport, domesticate them, lock them in books, cages of paper
a flip book that plays sound by way of differently textured pages
ism (v)â”not only having an idea, but writing the book on it, founding a movementâ”âI had this great idea but some guys ismâd it in the 19thâ
The tiger is patterned/blank, striped in words and spaces, to hide better in books. It preys on weak sentences and unsuspecting readers.
A detailed document describing HTTP/2 â https://www.gitbook.com/book/bagder/http2-explained/details
Only in these memories can you enter. So they ensure, if necessary by force, that no book about the city tells of the gate unguarded.
rocks of everyday life:â”noolith - book (usually nonfiction)â”oneirolith - book (usually fiction)â”sociolith - buildingâ”cryptolith - hard drive
Thanks @kas@enotty.dk, I just bought it and copied it on my reader! Never heard of the book before.
@kas@enotty.dk Read them both and loved them! Though I donât know why Stephenson added that strange appendix to an otherwise great book.
My next book will be Darwinia by the same author. Any good tips what to read after that? #books
I highly recommend The Chronoliths by Robert Wilson. The Spin series is also great, though i was a little disappointed by the last book.
The book literally captures your imagination, conscripts it until youâve added another chapter. Thatâs simply the price of reading it.
Donât place seed books in your library without adequate quarantine. Or do you want the plants to spread and Asimovâs robots to become mossy?
Fictional plants can germinate in minds, so books about them are special, more akin to seedbanks than books. Other books provide the soil.
Attempts have been made to travel the river, but it ignores most ships. The only vessel that works is a small paper boat from old books.