richieadler

Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai

Nope. They just show how far away we are from true AI.

I was thinking more about the villains of The Net.

Amazing. I'm not willing to exercise the permanent sacrifices that having kids entails.

Pretorians.

My preference is Nikola.

The proper course of action would be to translate the foreign language and add those subtitles in italics.

Exactly. Promote it as community outreach, it's more useful than feel-good Pictures at dog shelters.

Stranger has a point where you can feel in your body the whiplash of the change in tone. After the middle point Heinlein was blocked for years, and when he continued the result was grotesque.

When you start reading dialog about what happens in Heaven, when the story started as proper sf, you know that the author lost the plot (literally and figuratively).

Solid choices.

Your "best of sf" doesn't include many recognized classics. That's weird. No LeGuin, no Bester?

Well, when I'm not wanted I tend to burn bridges.