people ask me for reading recommendations for learning occulty shit and i always give them fantasy and science fiction novels tbh i trust induction from fiction for this way better than straight explication, the fictional metaphor has to at least work inside some world model
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Ugh. There are at least two of those that i think need heavy caveats on the recommendation. (I'm fond of four of the five, myself, but even so i wouldn't recommend Lord of Light without a lot of caveats about the racism and misogyny. And i wouldn't recommend Snow Crash at all.)
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(I love Zelazny -- love love love -- but he was definitely ... who he was, for good and for ill. I'm careful inflicting him on people.)
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reading 40% of these before middle school probably did... something
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mad jelly tbh
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Sometimes living in the future is pretty cool.pic.twitter.com/iPwzWzZPl3
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I'm kind of between books that really grab me. This seems promiding.
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I liked the feel that Tim Powers’s LAST CALL had...
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Daniel Pinkwater; _Borgel_ for theoretical and _Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars_ for practical.
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Honestly, if one ever really asked me for recommendations from fiction, I would say everything from F. Herbert on Dune and Simon Spuririer's Lord of the Night if they were willing to endure that specific fandom.
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Whoa, someone else read Aristoi! I thought I was the only one!https://twitter.com/abstractwhiz/status/1146295714923917312?s=19 …
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