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2527196 No.2527196 [Reply] [Original]

>fantasy/scifi book
>find ancient message from extinct civilization or something similar
>Half the plot is about deciphering it
>It ends up rhyming and sounding very poetic in English

all of my wat

>> No.2527199

>>2527196
>expecting every scifi book to be hard scifi
>expecting hard fantasy to exist

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>scifi book
>find ancient/cryptic message
>"It's binary!"

>> No.2527216

>Fantasy book
>Mentions events that happened thousands of years prior.
>Technology has not advanced in any way, shape or form.
I'm looking at you Tolkien!

Why didn't Gandalf make a teleportation machine and teleport the ring into Mt. Doom. I mean there was 3 thousand years between Isildur and Aragorn for fuck's sake!

>> No.2527219

>>2527216
lol yeah

and why don't humans invent a downloading brain thing so we can just download books into our brains so we don't have to read lol

like in the matrix, i could just download how to do carpentry or jujitzu lol lol

>> No.2527221

>>2527216
The Egyptian, Hittite, Babylonian, Aztec and Incan empires were huge bureaucratic states with sophisticated engineering and technological feats for thousands of years before anyone thought of the wheel

>> No.2527222

Its your own fault OP. Read something reputable. Let us (try to) help you! *offers hand*

>>2527199
"Hard fantasy" is mythology, isn't it?

>>2527216
>I'm looking at you Tolkien!
Read more history

>>2527219
>why don't humans invent a downloading brain thing so we can just download books into our brains
Eventually.

>> No.2527224

>Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels - bring home for Emma