Analog hasn't been relevant to anything since the '80s at the latest. In fact did they ever do anything even remotely relevant after publishing Count Zero by William Gibson? It's been a long, slow slide into the toilet for Analog since Campbell (now disowned by woke pieces of shit unworthy to lick his shit-covered boots) left. In 1971.
I think that's the case with pretty much any of the old sci-fi mainstays. I don't think anyone really knows or cares what gets published in those legacy magazines, publications that basically exist in name only at this point. I know I've never once thought "huh, I wonder what's new in Analog this month," and I've been an avid sci-fi fan pretty much all my life. Lord knows we don't need to go into the shitshow that is the Hugos, another nepotistic laughingstock from which Frank has been given undue recognition.
In other words, Frank Wu getting a cover credit isn't a sign he's breaking through as a major writer; Frank Wu getting a cover credit is a symptom of Analog's sad decline.
First off, lolaudiobook.
Counterpoint: one of these people writes for JALOPNIK, and the other is a cockless goblin
What kind of maintenance could The Engineer possibly need help with? He does everything himself, he even bought that thing to raise his cars in the garage and spent a lot of Frank's money on all kind of tools while claiming to actually have rebuilt the cars. Does he pay them to change the oil and rotate the tires?
Or the original Half-Life where it's one of the better FPS games of all time and then you get to Xen and it's the gayest thing ever.
Can John just please stop saying painfully stupid and illiterate and ignorant shit? Greatest work of literature seriously? How hard can he tongue this guy's cornhole?
Could be worse: at least John's not putting up that hack NK Jemison as the next Ursula K. Le Guin.
It would be too hideous if they knew that the one-time heiress of Mississippi—the accursed gorgon or lamia whose hateful thin and ghastly strands of winnowed hair must even now be brooding and twining vampirically around an artist’s skeleton in a lime-packed grave beneath a charred foundation—was faintly, subtly, yet to the eyes of genius unmistakably the scion of Adam’s most withered progeny. No wonder she owned a link with that old false-woman Caitlyn—for, though in deceitfully slight proportion, Brianna was a man.
What a shocker that a white male like John would do that.
haha isnt it funny how a video game doesnt work the way the real world works
I'll give it some credit where they don't really lead you along for several books and then spring the ayy lmaos on you out of nowhere. The alien tech is part of the story from the first novel, but it remains pretty far beyond human understanding for the majority of the series, and it's mostly used to expand (lol) the story's setting and throw a major wrench in the political machines as set up in the beginning. It's so far beyond human tech that it remains a mystery for much of the series.