I'm not reverting your edits to the article, but some would probably dispute whether Seven Days in New Crete is a "science fiction novel" in any usual sense. AnonMoos ( talk) 08:33, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Graves's only sf (science fiction) novel, the Utopian Watch the North Wind Rise (1949; vt Seven Days in New Crete 1949) complexly dramatizes some ideas concerning the nature of Poetry and its ideal relation to the world that he had earlier expounded in The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948; rev 1952; further rev 1966)
In the case of consent, I propose the following version of the profile
# [[author]] «[[title]]» ({{lang-en | «Original title», year of first publication}})
For example
and create this page.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Once I got started, I ended up doing 50 after all:
I snuck in "The Dying Earth" at the bottom, since it's really a short-story collection. David Weber is probably the SF author I've read the most of over the last 5 years, but no one single book of his really stands out. Also a little sad that there's no John Brunner book... AnonMoos ( talk) 14:10, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
5 « The Time Machine» 7 « A Case of Conscience» 8 « The Forge of God» 9 « Fahrenheit 451» - other my highest places.
Thanks again for the list and answers. Good by, because I do not want to distract you from something more important.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:26, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
I actually read Heinlein's, "If This Goes On--", "Sixth Column", "Space Cadet", "Time for the Stars", "Citizen of the Galaxy", "Podkayne of Mars", part of "Starman Jones", and part of "Orphans of the Sky", mainly back when I was in my teens and twenties. I kind of liked "Time for the Stars" and "Citizen of the Galaxy" (I was impressed by the use of anthropology concepts in Citizen of the Galaxy"), but I have no desire to read any new Heinlein novels at this point, especially those from his later period... "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" as a book is a collection of unrelated short stories (it includes one of my favorite short stories "—And He Built a Crooked House—", but is not eligible for a novel list).
I've discovered that of the 43 unique authors on my revised list, there seem to be en.Wikipedia articles on 40 of them -- all except Bill Adams, Cecil Brooks, and Isabel Cooper. I'm thinking of starting an article on Isabel Cooper...
Also, I analyzed my list by assigning 50 points to the author of the first entry on the list, 49 points to the author of second entry, and so on, down to 1 point for the author of the last entry on the list. Where a book had two authors, I divided its points equally between the two. The results are interesting (at least to me) -- Bujold and Norton rise far above the others, while Pournelle has distinctly the fewest points out of all the authors with multiple books on the list:
109 Lois McMaster Bujold 98 Andre Norton 66 Eric Flint 62 C.S. Lewis 59 Ursula K. Le Guin 52 Arthur C. Clarke 50 J.R.R. Tolkien 47 Cordwainer Smith 46 John Barnes 45 Frank Herbert 41.5 Jerry Pournelle 40 Isaac Asimov 39 Lord Dunsany
(No other author got more than 35 points.) It doesn't entirely agree with what I think of as my favorite authors, but provides an alternate perspective... AnonMoos ( talk) 17:11, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:48, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos Have you seen the changes in the list?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Yasnodark -- I guess "Lord of the Rings" being at the top of the list is kind of predictable. Even when there are some of the same authors on this list and my list, often very different works are preferred -- "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Childhood's End" are really not my favorite Arthur C. Clarke books, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is one of the Narnia books that I like the least (it was the first that C.S. Lewis wrote, and he was still kind of figuring things out), and while I was impressed by "The Left Hand of Darkness", it wouldn't be my top Ursula K. Le Guin pick (and I've kind of tired of the Earthsea series). If I included any Zelazny, it would be "Doorways in the Sand", not "Nine Princes in Amber"...
I've read Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" and Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince", but I didn't think of including them on my list for the same reason I didn't think of including Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland": too many fairy-tale/nursery-rhyme elements, and too little overall coherent plot. I read the first half or so of Zamyatin's "We" («Мы»), but I couldn't really get through it. Aelita is known among science-fiction film buffs as an early Soviet SF movie, but probably few in the West have seen the movie or read the book. I wonder what the heck "Человек-амфибия" is about -- does it have a premise similar to Kobo Abe's " Inter Ice Age 4"??
It seems slightly odd to me that no books published in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series (which had a big influence on me in my teen years) are included in the master list...
Unless I'm missing something with one of the Cyrillic-alphabet entries that I know nothing about, it seems that the top-ranked book written by a woman in this overall list is number 39 ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire") -- rather different from my list. Also, "Fundation" should be "Foundation"... AnonMoos ( talk) 15:03, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos I strongly advise you to read an extremely interesting May series, to get the best impression read best in the following order:
The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson - also advise you to read.
Thank you for noticing my typos. As you can see from me, the "Macroscope" also flew out of the top 50, it is still a pity but I do not know what to exclude, it is also insulting for Silverberg and Anderson, but there are only 50 places. I would exclude Susanne Clark, but I have included so few fantasy novels. I liked Douglas Adams and Wells less, but I included them through the humor of the first and the scale of the thoughts of the second.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
I have no problem reading books that I've already read, or written by authors that I know well, in electronic form. I don't usually like to read works by unknown authors in electronic form.
If I can add one of those supplemental lists of books which didn't quite make my main list, it would include:
(Again, I snuck in a short story collection at the bottom.)
There's a higher proportion of "guilty pleasures" than there were on my main list above...
I was also struck by how many pre-WWI entries there were on the overall averaged list. I wonder if that's for reasons similar to the "Jack London" syndrome -- Jack London was the favorite American author of many in the Soviet Union because he was one of the few American authors translated and published in the Soviet Union. Most of the pre-1914 books on the list are classics, though -- with the conspicuous exception of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", which is a very heavy-handed and sometimes just plain dumb satire of the High Middle ages (which occurred well over 500 years after Arthur's time, by the way). If I were going to include anything vaguely science-fictional by Mark Twain, it would be "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven". I haven't read "The Picture of Dorian Gray", but it seems to be pretty much "mainstream" literature with just one symbolic element of "magical realism". I've apparently only read Jules Verne books in old bad English translations which are sometimes not too faithful to the original... AnonMoos ( talk) 08:34, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
By the way, I wonder how much you say about our President Zelensky and what exactly?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:42, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos Silverberg’s novel "Hawksbill Station" was on my preliminary list, but I deleted it, because although I was sure that I read it, I didn’t see it on my list. Given that I read a lot of his novels then, I could forget to write it down or mistakenly decided that I read it. In any case, its contents have been erased from memory. My final list of 1968 is above the list of 111 novels and it is not there.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:26, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos I would like to move a little away from the annual lists and suggest one more idea. I see that you have read a lot of Andre Norton's novels and they rank high on individual lists. I have more than half of her books but have not read a single one yet due to a number of reasons, including one unflattering review. So I would like you to rate her novels like the general top 50 and you list her best novels from best to least successful. I want to have a guideline for the future. 50 points - first place, and so on until 50th, if you have one or the lowest. And I, in turn, will distribute my favorite author - Robert Heinlein. Then let's compare what happens as a result.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:37, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
OK, here's a list of 24 Andre Norton speculative fiction novels that I like, and a list of 4 that I dislike. Some of her early works were later released in revised form from the 1990s on; I'm not really a fan of the later versions, and am ignoring them here (of the books on my "like" list, at least "The Time Traders" was later revised). I'm including "Perilous Dreams", though it has a kind of complicated history -- two novellas (written in different years), joined together into a short novel, and accompanied by two short stories set in the same world... AnonMoos ( talk) 11:58, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Andre Norton "like" list:
Andre Norton "dislike" list:
AnonMoos thank you ! I forgot to give you the link http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?209 , can something else help remember.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Robert A. Heinlein my "like" list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Heinlein wrote less than 50 (his 40 novels & novellas have 100 or more pages), but it was from him that I read most of the speculative science fiction novels, I probably read 29, at least I did not remember more. The bottom 3 I could send to the dislike list, but their quality is still better than many novels by other authors. At the same time, I read novels at different times and this leaves an imprint.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoosThanks for the comment. Have you remembered any other Norton novels you read? I forgot to give you the link http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?209 , can something else help remember.
Fixed inaccuracies in Heinlein's list. I advise you to read at least the first 14 points of my preference list. By the way, what are you reading now and reading during quarantine?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
If you like the next five for the second month:
all the novels are different and not similar to each other.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
I would like to add that no person under the age of 66 or over the age of 85 has received a title so far. The literary experience of the winners ranged from 34 (Bujold) to 61 (Beagle) years. Gibson and Bujold, 70, have been getting younger for the past two years, so it's likely to be an older person this year and more likely a man, because last year it was a woman. All authors are English-speaking, but very rarely British and Canadian. Only two - Bester and Beagle - wrote less than 1,111,111 words of speculative fiction.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
These are my preliminary lists, then I will add and rearrange.
I'm rooting for prolific oldies. This letter is helpful
I don't really closely follow such awards. I think it would be nice if David Weber were recognized, but I wouldn't be disappointed if he wasn't. I'm a little curious as to the presence of Suzy McKee Charnas on your list -- she writes some powerful books, but has a rather specialized talent. The only Christopher Priest book I read ("The Inverted World") came close to giving me nightmares (I have absolutely no desire to ever read it again). AnonMoos ( talk) 00:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
I haven't read her books, but it's not that important. I have read other masters and know about the merits of authors I have not read. And I know that she could not write better than them. But even if she would write at the same level, she definitely wrote several times less (only 13 books!?!), Has little literary experience in speculative fiction (24 years !!!) and is young enough (60 years !!!) , that is, because of such dubious awards, many worthy people simply will not survive. John Brunner was 61 years old in the year of his death, he never got the title, and by that time he had written about 70 books, of which more than 20 were super-outstanding and had 44 years of experience in speculative fiction to compare with this upstart. Octavia Butler had 35 years of experience, wrote 15 books and was terminally ill, but at the 59th year of her life she was also not announced a Grandmaster, and who, no matter how worthy she was. Kate Wilhelm lived to be 90 years old, wrote dozens of books over 60 years, but received only a fake "Solstice". Robert Sheckley was given the second class prize - Emeritus. John Christopher, Thomas Disch and Roger Zelazny never got it. Dixon, Herbert and Bradley were also out of luck.
I am incredibly angry because their fate awaits other worthy authors who have written dozens of high-level books over the decades. Ben Bova is 88 years old. He has written about 90 books of quality fiction and is still actively writing for the past 61 years. Even better books are from Card and the magnificent B-Four - Beer (53 years of experience), Benford (55 years of experience), Bishop (50 years of experience) and Brin (40 years of experience), and they are more than 70 years old, Benford in a month - 80 years old and his twin brother died, that is, how long he does not know. They all wrote 2-6 times more. And there are simply legends of popularity King and Martin, more than 90 books were written by Foster. There are also 77-year-old Englishmen Priest and Watson. Then there's Spinrad and Malzberg, who have been writing since the 1960s. There is Vinge and Simmons. More than 100 books were written by Pierce Anthony and they are all still writing ... Among women, Yarbro has been writing for over 50 years and has almost the same number of books. For many years, Gwyneth Jones and Nancy Kress have written with quality. But Hopkinson? For what?
Ten years ago I predicted the title of 2010 and my forecast still worked: out of the top eight applicants, in my opinion, 5 received the title and 2 more died, Bova remained. All the other Grandmasters were also on my list, but who knew 10 years ago about Hopkinson and who could consider her a contender. Even now I did not even think to include her in the list for 2021, according to all the laws, she had 0 chances. It is very sad that such an inadequate decision was made by Mary Robinette Kowal, the first SFWA President with Ukrainian roots.
And you have no way to duplicate my comment here Except for the phrase in the first paragraph "Apparently because she is a black lesbian woman from Jamaica and Canada (do not be offended if you or your relatives or friends are African-American or LGBT"?
But all this does not interfere with predicting the winner of 2022.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:53, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure who you're referring to. I'm sure that many of those who were overlooked have many merits, but I don't think that Piers Anthony deserves any awards (except for sheer volume). AnonMoos ( talk) 00:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
other non-included:
other non-included:
you read only 2 novels in full and one in part? You have lost a lot because the year is very good? Yasnodark ( talk) 14:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
just Latin “H” = Cyrillic “G” is the Ukrainian approach https://argo-unf-in.at.ua/load/anglo_amerikanska_fantastika/ellison_garlan/47 , and in Russian it is “X”, although many I do not fully agree with this, because with regard to English surnames it is more often more correct than “X” in contrast to American ones. 1968 is my favorite year in speculative fiction and the hardest thing was to choose the best and put them in their places, and I have a full set of 10 high-quality novels there, so I decided to start with it, but even if you have memories of this year’s books are more vague, nevertheless, I would ask you to arrange in approximate order the novels you have read in their places. Laumer meets the criteria http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?199517 .-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos That article on Ukrainian Wikipedia is devoted only to science fiction, not speculative fiction, so Le Guin’s novel and other pure fantasy novels are not there. If you wish, changes to your list are possible, so you can include Zelazny’s novel. But still I would like you to create ranked lists by year, for the beginning of 1968-1970. Thus embrace both your and my favorite years. -- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:45, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Simak’s novel can be read here, in addition, in the history you can find other links to other "my" best 1968 novels.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:45, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
OK, I've compromised and produced a list of my top 8 favorite books first published in 1968. If I made my list any longer, it would be because I remembered a book better than I remembered some others, not because I liked the book better than I did the others... Note that the second half of "Norstrilia" was published in 1968 (the first half was published in 1964), but I can only judge the book as a whole (the form in which I've always encountered it, and in which it's been reprinted ever since 1975). "Swords Against Wizardry" is also a collection of some material first published in 1968 and other material previously published in magazines before 1968. If "The Tombs of Atuan" had been published in 1968, it would have probably made the list, but "A Wizard of Earthsea" didn't... AnonMoos ( talk) 15:42, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! I recently noticed your first lists over the years and especially the 1968 list. And I saw that you then made too strict and very strict selection from what you read. You have left blank positions in 1 and 2 points. I think that among the novels you do not include, there are those that deserve at least such a low score as 1-2 points. After all, you do not need to put 8 or 10 points, because they are not the best in your opinion. However, to say that the novels of P.K. Dick, Peter S. Beagle, John Christopher, Alexei Panshin, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg or Larry Niven, according to critics ormy opinion, are so bad that they are not included in completely empty positions - is too much. After all, you can't say for sure that these novels are not the best of the unincorporated. Even if you read all the other unincorporated novels from this year that you haven't read yet. And if it is different and you then read something better, you can always replace them, that's my logic.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:43, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by P.K. Dick, "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle, "Hawksbill Station" a.k.a "The Anvil of Time" by Robert Silverberg, "The Pool of Fire" by John Christopher, "A Gift From Earth" by Larry Niven, "Assignment in Nowhere" by Keith Laumer, and part of "The Key to Venudine" by Kenneth Bulmer, "Rite of Passage" by Alexei Panshin, "Past Master" by R.A. Lafferty, "Shellbreak" by J. W. Groves, and "Sos the Rope" by Piers Anthony.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
I don't really remember "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" well enough to rate it (I read it once in the first half of the 1980s). My memory of "The Pool of Fire" has also faded (though I probably read that one in the 1990s). "Hawksbill Station" a.k.a "The Anvil of Time" and "A Gift From Earth" are rather minor novels from well-known authors. "Assignment in Nowhere" has too much fairy-tale influence -- I only like fairy-tale elements when done in certain ways, and even when I do like a book with fairy-tale influences, I sometimes might not consider it to fall under what would I consider to be "speculative fiction". For "The Last Unicorn", see comment of "05:58, 19 July 2020" above (plus also fairy-tale elements). I can enjoy fairy tales for what they are, but in my opinion there's a limited useful overlap between fairy tales and speculative fiction -- this may be part of why I included "The Charwoman's Shadow" by Lord Dunsany on my top-50 list, though most people seem to like "The King of Elfland's Daughter" more... AnonMoos ( talk) 17:24, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Among the novels of 1968 and 1969, I consider all the novels included deservedly, but some of the novels of 1969 (1-3 balls) I will not be sorry to exclude. It was also with Niven's novel "A Gift From Earth", but now it will be more difficult with 1968 year. And I think it is illogical to leave empty positions, but the choice is yours. Doesn't Le Guin's “A Wizard of Earthsea” or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" deserve 2 points?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:30, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
other non-included:
Interesting to see your choice
From here you can choose novels
1969 speculative fiction
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1969 .--
Yasnodark (
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AnonMoos Hello! At that moment, I made a mistake by putting 11 points, the first place is rated at 12 points, the second - 10 points, the third - 8, and further 7-1 points, so you got that one book is superfluous, considering that containing in Moore's book was first published in the 1930s, which is why it is superfluous in the 1969 year
Interesting to see your choice. From here you can choose novels
Interesting to see your choice. From here you can choose novels
Yasnodark -- Interesting that Franz Werfel's "Star of the Unborn" only has articles on the German and Ukrainian Wikipedias ( uk:Зірка ненароджених)... AnonMoos ( talk) 00:00, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
By the way, I analyzed the dates of the 67 books on my main and supplemental lists (ignoring the two crossed-out items); I followed my method explained above of listing books which were substantially revised from their original publication under their date of revised publication, and listing those which were originally published in parts according to the year of the last-published component volume. (However, I listed "Kajira of Gor" under 1983, since in this case I read the original edition years before I ever saw the revised edition.) The earliest year was 1920 and the latest year was 2011 (a range of 92 years), but 41 out of the 67 items were published during the years 1949-1980 (a range of 32 years), so 61% were published in this slightly extended 1950s-1970s period (35% of the overall year range). There are no books at all from the 1930s. There wasn't a year where more books on my lists were published than any other single year, but if I added up all the years and divided by 67, the average publication date was "1972.21" (September 1972), while the median year (in which 33 items were published beforehand and 33 items were published afterwards) was also 1972. So I guess you could kind of say that 1972 was my peak science-fiction year, though only two of the books on my lists were published in that year ("An Alien Heat" by Michael Moorcock and "The Gods Themselves" by Isaac Asimov)... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:39, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
I didn't want to unravel 1965 until I read Herbert's novel, because I wanted to start with the prequels of Anderson and his son, and I don't have 2 books and I don't know the chronology of the others, but apparently I'll have to, I read 3 more books this year, including number Aldiss on your recommendation, so I'll make my list.
But I’m not yet sure of my arrangement of some novels.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Search here
next year 1963 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1963 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I couldn't find a lot of books to include on my 1963 list. In some other years, "Judgment on Janus" would have been the only book among those below which I like enough to include on a year-list, but I didn't want to have a top-10 list with only one entry! I didn't include "Captives of the Flame", since this was substantially revised as part of the "Fall of the Towers" (see 1966 -- and I haven't read "Captives of the Flame" in its original unrevised form). "Podkayne of Mars" kind of turned me against Heinlein novels (as mentioned above)... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:51, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello!
next year 1962 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1962
my 1962 list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:12, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I include James Blish's "Cities in Flight" under 1962, since this was the publication date of the last of its four component novels (though they were not all published together in a single volume until later):
AnonMoos (
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AnonMoos Helloo! I disagree but so far returned-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Regarding James Blish's "Cities in Flight" tetralogy, I think that individual novels should be named in separate years, so the book should be excluded, but the last novel "A Life for the Stars" can be included.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:55, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
I don't want to rate the individual sub-novels of "Cities in Flight" -- and the same applies to the component volumes of the "Illuminatus!" trilogy, "The Fall of the Towers", and "Norstrilia". I might make an exception for "The Lord of the Rings"...
AnonMoos (
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AnonMoos You mentioned Kobo Abe's novel "The Woman in the Dunes" http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3647 and something didn't include it in 1962 list-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:48, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1970 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:21, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
I wouldn't include "Watership Down" in my 1972 list (and definitely not in the No. 1 position). You could say that it's well done for what it is, but I wasn't really able to buy in to epic, dramatic, tragic villain and hero characters who were also twitchy-nosed long-eared fluffy rabits. I later tried to read his "Shardik", but only got about halfway through that... AnonMoos ( talk) 14:07, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! It seems to me that you are wrong that you did not include "Watership Down" in your list, is itn`t worthy of at least 2 points in your opinion. In my opinion, Narnian novels are weaker than it.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:14, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
The original Swedish version of "King Kong Blues" was apparently published in 1974, but the English translation I read was published in 1975. AnonMoos ( talk) 20:49, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
Therefore, include in 1974 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:21, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:08, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
1976:
The first novella of "Perilous Dreams" was published in 1969, but the novel as a whole (plus the two short stories) in 1976. I don't usually like to change my lists (unless perhaps to add a forgotten item to the end -- or replace the item at the end, if I already have ten), but an issue I discovered going back through the mid-1970s is that I left "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman off my 1974 list, because it was shown as a short-story collection, not a novel. However, it's almost certainly eligible... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos This is the rare case when you and I don't have any correspondence and I haven't read any of your novels, moreover, I don't have 4 novels from your list at home at all. -- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Next year - 1958 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1958
my 1958 list:
Next year - 1957
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1957
Here's my 1957 list, but I reserve the right to revise it if I see items on your list which I should have included. I was going to include "This Fortress World" by James E. Gunn (one of my teen favorites), but apparently this was first published in 1955, and only reprinted as an Ace Double in 1957.... AnonMoos ( talk) 18:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
my 1957 list:
we will mention in 1956 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?112995 , so I took it off your list.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos When changes are made, there are occasional mentions, awards have been awarded multiple times for ongoing novels in magazines, so we focus on the end of the first publication. Another thing is that it is not entirely clear what to do when the book was published as separate stories and short stories, later combined under one cover. In this case, I don't know what decision to make .. But here everything is clear: a novel divided into three parts, and not three novellas collected in one novel later.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:59, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello!I wanted to ask you, did you find time to finish reading Heinlein's novel and understand the author's intention as a whole?
Also curious, what new things have you read in recent years besides the Weber series?
We also found an interesting link for you with a classic Ukrainian fiction novel in English https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Vladko/Descendants_of_the_Scythians_anhl/ , maybe you will try it for yourself?
And the last thing: from certain American films, one gets the impression that libraries in the USA work almost 24 hours a day: is this true or false, what are the working hours of libraries in Austin and other cities in the USA and other countries you have visited? At least for Texas, I think it will be easy for you to answer.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:53, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Thanks for the first answer. As for the second one, lately I've been reading half of my books this way, but I've noticed with regret that I don't have many small books for reading at stops, the plus is that they are mostly good old classics of hard science fiction, which I love no less than social or philosophical soft fiction. I definitely wouldn't classify Heinlein's novel Door to Summer in the first category of "techno-oriented American SF", and the novel is quite original for its time and in general, but you should read it to the end to understand its purpose. 3 pages at a stop per day is not so difficult. Yes, and in general, about half of Heinlein's novels definitely cannot be classified as "techno-oriented American SF", at the same time, when reading at bus stops, I mostly read just such books, although "The Threshold" by Ursula Le Guin was completely different. And the Flynn novel I mentioned above is definitely not like that, although its size is not for reading on the go.
Now I'm just finishing reading Clement's novel "Mission of Gravity" translated by Strugatsky, a wonderful novel, however, the author is not very friendly with the measures and dimensions he uses in the novel, often forgetting what he wrote before, it's strange how drunk the editor was when he proofread novel But otherwise a great novel.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:49, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
I haven't read much fantasy, but I'm trying to build my non-technical fiction recommendation letter from what you haven't read.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:49, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1956 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1956
My !star! 1956 list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZAw8qxn0ZE
I changed 1st and 2nd places several times and I still don't know if mine is correct choice.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:12, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
On the negative side of 1956, Bridey Murphy (appearing in the title of two entries on the ISFDB year list) was worthless gibberish which for some reason became a fad in the United States of the 1950s. On the positive side, I didn't know that "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot" (a semi-famous series of very bad puns) went as far back as 1956...
AnonMoos (
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AnonMoos Hello! next year 1955 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1955 You probably didn't notice this message?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:08, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
my 1955 list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Thank you for your list, just in this case the "Lord of the Rings" is a divided novel (by the editor's decision), and Blish's "Cities in flight" - several novels later combined under one cover and International Fantasy Award http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?24+1957 was awarded for the novel "Lord of the Rings", but this does not prohibit 1954 to consider the first 2 parts as separate novels, I just do not see the point in 1955 to consider "The Return of the King" separately . In addition, it is difficult with those books that were combined under one cover much later. In general, everything is complicated-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:35, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos It still seems to me that it is wrong that you did not appreciate "Fahrenheit 451", because you probably remember the plot as a whole.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:30, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
My 1953 list:
My 1951 list:
The publication of the first Asimov "Foundation" novel in book form first happened in 1951, as also "The Weapon Shops of Isher" by A. E. van Vogt -- though the original short stories of which they were composed were published earlier. I would be curious what year you would classify these under (and also "The Tritonian Ring" by L. Sprague de Camp and "Gray Lensman" by E.E. Doc Smith)... AnonMoos ( talk) 01:25, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
I added whichever ones I wanted. "The Stars, Like Dust" is my least favorite early Asimov novel (its final plot twist is like that of a bad Star Trek original series episode...). AnonMoos ( talk) 00:17, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Why didn't you include "The Stars, Like Dust" in the 1951 list then? You are too selective in your lists. Don't just include the worst and bad novels.
"Foundation" had to be included here because it was in 1951 that the book was first published as a novel. And without the permission of the author. Although because of this logic, the previous 1940s suffer a lot. The first 3 books fit the others I will check-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:37, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos I misinterpreted your phrase. Translation difficulties. Although I do not consider the novel ("The Stars, Like Dust") bad, although I remember it badly. So I put it at the bottom of the list-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
With van Vogt everything is difficult and always, but the story is the same as with "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov Yasnodark ( talk) 14:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1952 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1952
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:40, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
I've read some Bester and Kornbluth & Pohl, but not those. I'm happy to include "Foundation and Empire", but ISFDB lists it as a "collection" (not a "novel") and its component stories were published in 1945... AnonMoos ( talk) 19:50, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I thought for a long time about how to determine the year of creation of a novel, and I decided that at the moment, a novel that was published in the form of a serial is exactly how a novel is put in the year of creation, because such novels are included in the lists of award nominations in the "novel" category, and cycles of works will later be united under one cover as a novel later, we count in the year of unification into one book. At the same time, this book by Asimov was a combination not of short stories, but of the early 1945 novel "The Mule" https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41123 and one short story of 1944 and 1 novel from 1945. That is why we will include the novel "The Mule" in 1945 year list. Yasnodark ( talk) 13:13, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1989 * http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1989 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:23, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
my 1989 list
On the account of the final arrangement I still have doubts, but you will probably be surprised by my last position of Simmons's novel «Hyperion», the novel is good, but the worst of the 4 books of seria and in my opinion worse than the 9 books I put above.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:04, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! It very often happens that I have been reading good books for years, and only recently I removed a good second book by Bujold from the top 10 because of reading Asimov's novel "Nemesis", and now I will have to remove the award-winning "Hyperion" from the top ten, because I liked Wilson's book more. Although I still have doubts about the arrangement of all 12 books, because none of them are bad. Even the thirteenth cannot be called bad, although it belongs to the series.
There was an offer. Both you and I have had a number of overbooked years, so I suggest we stick to the 12-point system and remove the gaps, then we'll have a maximum of 12 novels for the year, and that will allow for two more non-included novels to be rated in some overbooked years. Do you agree with the addition? Then I will change the points and you will complete the lists where possible...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:19, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1987 * http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1987 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:23, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
my 1987 list
my 1986 list
This was the first time that I had much more than 10 entries to choose from (there were 18 books published in 1986 that I could have included). I left out "Ethan of Athos" so that Lois McMaster Bujold wouldn't crowd other authors off of the list. I've never read anything in Vernor Vinge's "Peace War" or bobble series except "The Ungoverned", and I've concluded that it was a mistake for Isaac Asimov to tie together his originally separate Foundation series and Robot series...
AnonMoos (
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21:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Here are my other 1986 books:
AnonMoos Can you put the missing Lem novel from the 1986 extra list somewhere else because I put it roughly?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! "Black Star Rising" -> 1985
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pohl_frederik
So please replace it--
Yasnodark (
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"Black Star Rising" by Fred Pohl
AnonMoos Hello! I am interested to know which novels you have excluded?
my 1984 list
non-included novels:
AnonMoos Somehow it turns out that I often read books from 1969 or 1984, although the lists are already full - there are 10 good novels
AnonMoos Hello! I'm glad you're all right. I would like to see your choice of 1984 Yasnodark ( talk) 12:50, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
For years, I've basically only re-read the last third of "The Practice Effect", and "Circumpolar" is a very silly book which I haven't read for a long time, but I still decided to include both of them. (I almost included "The Years of the City" by Fred Pohl, but then realized that I was confusing it with "A Little Knowledge" / "Catacomb Years" by Michael Bishop, and that I've never read "The Years of the City"...) AnonMoos ( talk) 22:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
By the way, I don't usually like to change my lists once I've compiled them, but when I was making my 1969 list, I didn't realize that a substantially revised text of "Avengers of Carrig" (the version I'm familiar with) was first published in 1969. So substitute it for "Decision at Doona" as follows: AnonMoos ( talk) 22:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
I finally finished reading Varley's book "The Demon" and despite the fact that I tormented her for a long time in parallel with 10 other books, I decided to move it up, I also decided to raise Pohl's original book up, although I was dissatisfied with many. I read Luopoff's novel relatively recently, I don't think it is bad, but it didn't have enough zest. Therefore, after you, he pushed her down.
You included Lupoff's novel, but in 1968 and 1969 you decided not to include the much brighter novels Macroscope and The Last Unicorn, can you change your mind and put them at the bottom of their years for objectivity?
Of your novels, I only have Niven's at home. By the way, you have one more place.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:07, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
I made a mistake and didn't notice that you and I named different Lupoff novels. I also confused about the "Macroscope"-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1980 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1980
my 1980 list
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
My list:
"Sundiver" is not one of my favorite David Brin books (it was his very first in the Uplift series, maybe before he fully developed that universe), and I liked the John Varley "Titan" books at the time, but have soured on them a little over the years (haven't re-read them in a long time). I'm not sure I want to rank the Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's" books separately (as opposed to the series as a whole). "The Probability Broach" is an ultra-libertarian alternative history of the U.S., notorious among some fans (never read it). I didn't include Eco's "The Name of the Rose", though it's listed at ISFDB. AnonMoos ( talk) 20:48, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1989 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1982--
Yasnodark (
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my 1982 list
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
My 1982 list (I assume you meant 1982, not 1989):
I read a number of other books published in 1982, but my memories of them are very vague and/or I don't want to rank them. I don't think that Asimov should have tried to link his Foundation series and his Robots stories together, and I still don't really want to rank the books of the Hitchhiker's original trilogy separately... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:13, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1985 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1985
my 1985 list
1985:
Non-included novels:
"Trumps of Doom" didn't quite make my top 10. Dayworld is another series which quickly goes downhill, but the first book is kind of fun. I read the original short story of "Ender's Game", but never read the full novel. I always wanted to read several books published in this year, such as "Starquake" and "Handmaid's Tale" and maybe "Contact", but I never did so... AnonMoos ( talk) 17:03, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I didn't remember Pohl's novel well, that's why it's so low, because the impression wasn't too bright. I don't have this Le Guin novel. I have 3 novels - "Eon" & "Schismatrix"- they are lying on nearby shelves, but I haven't gotten to them yet, although I have plans, "Dayworld" is more difficult to get, although the desire to read it is slightly greater.
I saw the film, but I haven't read the novel "Contact", I bought it shortly before I was in Kyiv in early 2000-th, where it was, the edition is old and no longer published in Russian & not translated into Ukrainian. A few days ago I asked about him in the library, but apparently he was not in this one or he was already written off because he is not there. I wanted to read it, because finally the wonderful impression of the film has subsided and you can start the novel without remembering the details of the plot.
The other novels you mentioned weren`t published in the post-Soviet space. The only exception is "Handmaid's Tale", but I'm not sure that I want to take it to the library, although there are similar thoughts.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Then I would ask you to create this list of books that didn't make the top 10.
I have really never heard anything about this book or even about its author before, although I know the titles of most of the English-language books translated not only into Ukrainian, but also into Russian and Belarusian, and I have previously seen a list of books of speculative fiction published in Estonian and By the way, your 1974 favorite book "Star Rider" by Piserchia was translated only into this language unknown to me, but not into East Slavic languages that I can understand for fiction reading. I also saw separate lists of books translated into Bulgarian and Polish. And a number of encyclopedias and databases of authors, and nowhere and never have I come across the name of Jane Palmer. Yasnodark ( talk) 11:57, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
I haven't seen the publication of The Great King's War, but I think you need to adjust your wish list a bit. For example, I am grateful to you for suggesting the Weber series and some other books that I enjoyed reading, although I did not plan to do so in the coming years. Therefore, please think whether you should also follow my path.
As for your wishes to read, I would still ask you to try to read something from my list of favorite Heinlein books, because I see that our tastes are very similar in many ways.
Because you, speaking objectively, have chosen, to put it mildly, not the best books by Henlein, one of the best science fiction writers in the world. If you read his books in this order, you will not waste time, on the contrary, you will gain impressions. I've linked to the list of publications in the electronic "he Internet Speculative Fiction Database" and to the original texts in the electronic library, so you can at least try to start one of his first seven best novels.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:16, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
https://litlife.club/books/127069/read
Here are my numbers 11 to 16 for 1985:
We've discussed Julian May before. I've read her "Dune Roller" short story, but I very commonly saw her novels in used bookstores in the 1980s and/or 1990s, but didn't get beyond the first few pages in any of them. Now, I rarely come across her books... AnonMoos ( talk) 19:55, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Is
this link I gave not working for you?
Yasnodark (
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13:13, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
I myself like to read paper books more and very rarely read e-books. Although it was in electronic form that I read the largest books, in particular Martin's Dragon Dance and Victory Ashes and 2 more books by Weber, that is, in principle, it is possible even for a non-lover of reading books on a computer, and I believe that we both belong to this type of reader. At least pages 30-50 can be read and oriented. This novel, by the way, is the debut novel of the female writer, awarded for the best debut by several awards, and it has bright female characters.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:13, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos As for Simak's novels, I recently finished one of his later books, "Mastodonia", and perhaps it was she who gave the idea to the Julian May cycle. I will not say that this is his best novel, but it is difficult to find shortcomings in him. I liked the novel you read, but some others I liked better:
I heard from other people that they especially noted:
I consider the worst book I have read Our Children's Children but Simak's worst does not mean bad. Unfortunately, I don’t see other good books by Simak that I read on litlife, and I haven’t read other novels that are there, although I have many.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:13, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Regarding Heinlein, I started reading him with the novel "Orphans of the Sky" and it was this novel that made my transition from adventure and detective prose to speculative fiction, before that I read a lot of fiction, but I rarely realized that I was already reading another genre, but then I read a whole series important things of speculative fiction. I also watched a lot of SF movies, but it was Heinlein, starting with these novels, that made my transition to this genre clear and distinct, simply because the shelves ran out of adventure books, except for a few that I did not want to read at that time. And then I read another 20 of his novels in a row, then I began to read the outstanding fiction writers mentioned in the preface, then I was lucky again and I bought a thick Russian-language Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction, the chief editor of which was a co-author of the English-language Encyclopedia by Clute and Nichols, and I read the works of the best, because then I was accidentally advised the best magazine of speculative fiction of the post-Soviet space, the name of which is translated as "If", which published the best untranslated works of modern speculative fiction and excellent critical articles, including some living authors of that encyclopedia. Unfortunately, libraries stopped subscribing to it after 2014, because magazine was published in the Russian Federation. So I read almost no frankly bad speculative fiction at all, and very little that was even slightly bad, because I knew hundreds of authors worth reading. Therefore, I rarely bought others. Unfortunately, due to such a wide palette of exceptionally high-quality speculative fiction and my reluctance to risk reading something secondary or low-quality, I have read very little Ukrainian or even Russian speculative fiction, although subconsciously I understand that there are many good things and a circle of authors where I could meet them I already know, because of subjective things, I miss good works of Ukrainian speculative fiction. In addition, before, it was always scarce in libraries until recently, and now, due to the great war, our city almost does not finance libraries, and it was almost never found in second-hand bookstores in our city. That's why I know English-language fiction much better than domestic fiction, but I navigate English very well thanks to the path of coincidences that have become an obstacle to a more thorough knowledge of Ukrainian fiction.
However, I didn`t recommend "Orphans of the Sky" to you first, only because you have partly read this work, although it is the one you should start reading Heinlein from, I am glad that you will try The Door to Summer, but it is a less original novel, although it is one of the best. Still, it is better to start with the first published novels "Orphans of the Sky", "Children of Methuselah" or "Waldo", perhaps you should also start a new reading of Heinlein with his late novel "Friday" with a strong female character, although not so fantastic, but rather realized on practice, or Heinlein's most relevant novels for Ukraine now are "Double Star" and "Star Troopers", although at the time of reading the first 20 novels, I liked the last one together with "The Road of Glory" the least, at the same time, I have suspicions that if I were to reread it now , then I am waiting for my opinion to change, but I very rarely do this, and "Orphans of the Sky" is one of the few novels that I reread again. But "Double Star" is a really vivid novel, although its idea was later used repeatedly in films. I would recommend reading "The Door to Summer" as Heinlein's 5-7th novel to read. Although there are also "Star Beast", "Have Space Suit — Will Travel" and "Farmer in the Sky" - probably the best of the space novels for young people, which could have supplanted him if you did not start your acquaintance with Heinlein at this age. However, they are still worth reading. Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
By the way, all the novels of Heinlein that you read earlier, in the mentioned Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction, are either called unsuccessful or not awarded a single word, and the article about Heinlein is one of the largest in it. Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Good luck reading Heinlein and I hope your choice does not overshadow the impression of this author again. I would suggest it to you as number seven, knowing how many books of speculative fiction you have read and how unsuccessful your previous acquaintance with the author was. But this is just excessive caution and you cannot call the book obsolete, and this is its advantage over a number of other novels by Heinlein, which I didn`t name in this paragraph. But all the same, you were not lucky in choosing the books of the Grand Grand Master... If they were worth reading, then they were the last or interspersed with the best novels... But I hope you will see that your prejudice is caused solely by an unfortunate case and coincidence.
I would also recommend reading "Stranger in Strange Land" later, the novel is original strong but difficult to understand, so I would recommend it to the 9-10th, it to the 9-10th, even despite your reading experience. But the novel is very good, although I read it in the 1961 format, that is, one third smaller than the 1991 format. Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos And look at some of the links from those that I have already given you before
As for the encyclopedia of speculative fiction I mentioned, it only has a general description of Heinlein's teenage novels, so really the novel you mentioned is only listed. It should be said that the encyclopedia is really large - more than 700 pages of A4 format in small print with two columns for each, i.e. a total of 1400 columns for 1300 authors, almost 7 columns of the test are allocated to Heinlein (that is, 6.5 times more than the average per author), in the illustrated electronic version and there are even more of them. By the way, the impression about this article described above was formed not only from it, but also from a broader article by the same author, which was the preface to the book "Stranger in a Strange Land". Therefore, some things are not true. However, analyzing the article itself, even 7 stacks on the photo, biography and 50 books of the most influential American fiction author will agree - not so much to pay attention to every novel from the 40s. Although in the multi-volume encyclopedia of Nichols and Clute electronic version an attempt is made to do this, but there too "Citizen Galaxy" is given only the 1st short sentence. I read it second after Orphans of the Sky more than 20 years ago in a somewhat abridged version, and after it I immediately read another dozen or so novels by Heinlein, so my impressions of this novel were somewhat muted and partly confused with another novel, although I definitely liked it, but I now have the full version and may reread it later.
A little more is written about this novel https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/citizen-of-galaxy.htm on the "Fantastic Fiction" portal https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/. I was interested to read what Heinlein's non-fiction book "Tramp Royale" (1992) https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/tramp-royale.htm was about, because it was not translated into Russian, and in general, only "Stranger in Strange Land" and short works are available in Ukrainian. By the way, along with the book reviews, there are links to books that are reviewed together with this one, you may be interested. Heinlein very rarely gave recommendations for reading, and I really liked both of the books I read from his recommendations:
You correctly noted the nuance regarding the difference between the original and the translation, for example, many Russian and Ukrainian translators significantly embellished the text or "improved" it to their taste, especially in the Soviet and first post-Soviet decades. For example, Norton's novel "Sargases in Space" was translated in the same style by the Strugatsky brothers, and the later translator was very surprised by what he thought was a much lower level of style and text in general in the original, I have not yet read any Norton novel, but this information also made a certain shift. However, considering your and not only your attitude towards this woman writer, I suspect that the negativity of that translator towards the original text is greatly distorted by personal vision. Although it was his review in particular that inhibited my acquaintance with your favorite author. I have some of the joint works of May, Norton and Bradley, but have not read them yet.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:24, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
In addition, I recently found an audiobook of one of the founders of SF in Ukraine, Volodymyr Vladko, novel "Argonauts of the Universe", the first version of which dates back to 1935, but despite the quality of the style, there are many elements of Soviet conjuncture, which significantly reduce the desire for further listening. Especially since I perceive texts by ear much worse than on paper. So I can understand your take on the original works, I hadn't thought of that. Because I read mostly fiction in translation. And from classical Ukrainian literature, he read mostly realistic works.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:16, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
I have 2 books by Chad Oliver, but I haven't read any of them yet, although I have such a desire from time to time, unfortunately, every time they are not around and now they are not on the nearest shelves, the author has long since died and is not being filmed now. So while Oliver is not lucky, I have an even greater desire to read one more of his novels, but it is not translated into Ukrainian or Russian and we can hardly expect it. Did you get my list of Piper links elsewhere?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
I think you might find this list of Piper series links:
helpful.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I've gotten through the first 50 pages of "Door Into Summer", and while I'm not really identifying with the inventor protagonist, and not looking forward to his immediately pre-sleep confrontation with Belle and Miles, there aren't some of the problems that I've had with some other Heinlein writings. Also, I was looking at my original list of 50 again recently, and while I don't really want to revise it, I'm wondering now why I ranked Brin's "The Uplift War" so low... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:07, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
By the way, I wonder if "Door Into Summer" influenced some of the plot details of The Perils of Pauline (1967 film) (an intentionally very silly movie which I saw on TV long ago -- I didn't remember that Pat Boone was the leading man!)... AnonMoos ( talk) 19:31, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
I haven't been repulsed by "Door Into Summer", but neither have I been drawn in by it. I can probably finish it off in a concentrated 2 or 3 hour reading session, and I'll try to get to it by the end of the month. In recent days, you asked me about my favorite books of 1998, and "Nimisha's Ship" by Anne McCaffrey was on the list, so I've been re-reading it... -- AnonMoos ( talk) 22:02, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! I wanted to ask you, have you made any progress in reading Heinlein's book?
Next year - 1988 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1988
my 1988 list
I ranked "Falling Free" relatively low, since I'm not sure I ever fully read it all the way through (in fact, I suspect I didn't). I read almost half of "The Hormone Jungle" by Robert Reed, then made a very intentional decision not to finish it. For whatever reason, I didn't read "Cyteen" by C. J. Cherryh (though I was aware of it), and this kept me from reading most further novels in her Downbelow universe... I wanted to read "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" (or at least to have read it), but reading "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was a convoluted and not entirely pleasurable experience for me, so that kind of put me off... AnonMoos ( talk) 21:08, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
my 1990 list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:15, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
"The Vor Game" is one of my all-time favorites. "The Difference Engine" is one of those books that I want to have read, more than I want to read it... I think I read Farmer's "Dayworld Breakup", but it wasn't that great. I only really like "The Tombs of Atuan" as a whole book among the Earthsea books (though I also like parts of the first book). AnonMoos ( talk) 23:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
The fact is that I would be interested to know the places of mediocre works in the year relative to each other, and you can describe their quality in the comments. Especially since "Nebula" got "Tehanu" as an example, of course - this is an exaggeration of the level, but it is definitely not the level of the work that should be included. Ditto with serialized novels, which you often don't include due to hazy memories of the content of specific books. Yasnodark ( talk) 15:33, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
my 1991 list:
AnonMoos And I really liked all 4 first books of the series with Clarke, Lee's solo books about Rama are unfortunately not in translation. For me, a difficult dilemma was which of the first 3 books to choose and "Barrayar" was the second, and «The Garden of Rama» the third rather intuitively and largely by accident.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:54, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
At the same time, I hear about authors such as Bill Adams and Cecil Brooks for the first time.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:54, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos hello! I don't have much more novels on my list this year than you.
I'm surprised Bova's novel is so low on the isfdb list. Very good book.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:22, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
It is often difficult to put books in place, but this time it was especially difficult, I changed the places of the first 7 novels many times and maybe I will change them many times, because these 7 books are all equally good, but none of them can be called superb or brilliant. The first 7 positions are extremely conditional and this conditionality significantly exceeds the usual level of this indicator in my lists of other years.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:10, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos my mayby new best 1993 speculative fiction novel: John Whitbourn «Popes and Phantoms» https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?14007 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:43, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos hello Yasnodark ( talk) 13:14, 17 August 2020 (UTC) Next year - 1996 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1996
my 1996 list:
In Enemy Hands - go to 1997 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5763 Yasnodark ( talk) 12:49, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos my 1999 list:
My list:
I probably didn't read all that many books published in 1999. I tried to read "Flashforward" (which was the basis for a short-lived TV series), "Prisoner of Azkaban", and Weber's "The Apocalypse Troll", but I didn't get too far in any of them... I did read "Finity" by Barnes, but my memory of it is quite vague now. I like parts of "A Civil Campaign" by Bujold very much, but it has a dinner-party scene that I just can't re-read (I always skip over it). AnonMoos ( talk) 20:51, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
my 1998 list:
I will note that the sequel to one of the best books by Robert Sheckley is one of my least liked books, and probably this is the first novel that I include with serious reservations until I read the 5 best books from this year. Yasnodark ( talk) 13:48, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I take it you didn't see my post on novels this year?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:57, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
1998 list:
"Echoes of Honor" and "Dimension of Miracles Revisited" are not included on the ISFDB most-reviewed of the year page, which gives rise to questions. (I never read the original "Dimension of Miracles".) I read almost half-way into "The Cassini Division", but didn't finish it. "Earth Made of Glass" by John Barnes is impressive in some ways, but had many repulsive aspects, and I have no desire to ever reread it, so I didn't rank it. (This could be considered yet another series which goes downhill after its first book, "A Million Open Doors"...) AnonMoos ( talk) 22:15, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
my 1995 list:
Very good year. Again, the distribution of seats is rather conditional, as in 1989 .-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:30, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
"The Diamond Age" was the novel which persuaded me not to read any more Neal Stephenson books, but it was actually a fairly good book -- it's Neal Stephenson's habit of implicitly presenting disgusting libertarian dystopias as some kind of good thing which alienated me, not the quality of the book. My memories of "Flag in Exile" are somewhat vague... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:28, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
my 2000 list:
My list:
For 2000, I have what I tried to avoid in other years, a list of one item. By the way, item 3 on your list is presumably "A Storm of Swords", not "Flashforward". I read Ashes of Victory", but don't really want to rank it (I also read parts of "House Harkonnen" and "Rats, Bats & Vats"). By the way, I added "The Eye of the Queen" by Phillip Mann to my 1982 list. (I originally read it because it was said to be linguistics-related Science Fiction; it wasn't really, but still deserving of a mention.) AnonMoos ( talk) 20:31, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I found it very difficult to decide which of the first 4 novels was the best, while the Weber novel and the Australian novel I read recently were much less to my liking, but not so much that I had doubts about their inclusion, although even in those cases I plan to include relevant novels, putting them in lower positions, if there are no better ones at the moment.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:55, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
my 2001 list:
This may be the first year that I haven't really read anything I want to rank. I did read "The Merchants of Souls" by John Barnes, and I believe "The Skies of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey also, but found them to be rather mediocre. I read half of the "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, but didn't finish it. I've wanted to read "The Curse of Chalion" by Lois McMaster Bujold, and looked through "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn several times, but never read either. I've certainly read "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" by David Weber, but it's not novel-length, and I'm not sure how much it can stand by itself, as opposed to being part of the whole Honorverse narrative.
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I did notice a book I overlooked for my year 2000 list: "Heart of Gold" by Sharon Shinn. Not sure how I missed it before. Now my 2000 list can be expanded from one entry to a grand total of two entries! (I would probably have a longer list for the year 2003.) -- AnonMoos ( talk) 22:23, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
I've discovered something from 2001 I want to rank after all, if we're including not-full novel-length stuff: "From the Highlands" by Eric Flint. So at least I have one entry for a 2001 list... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:28, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
my 2002 list:
My 2002 list:
I read the original "Coraline" book many years after I saw the movie, and probably like the movie better (though the book has the gruesome reference to the antagonist's mother's grave). I read "The Butlerian Jihad" by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert, and found it to be only middling (I wasn't encouraged to go on to read further books by those two authors). The explanation of the name "House of Atreides" was very clever, though... I had to skip forward past parts of "The Sky So Big and Black", so I didn't fully read it, and it confirmed my opinion of John Barnes as a very inconsistent author. I own a copy of "The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction" by Justine Larbalestier which is on the ISFDB 2002 list, but have only read about 15-20 pages. By the way, "War of Honor" isn't on the ISFDB list (but it doesn't matter for me, since I haven't read it). AnonMoos ( talk) 22:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
AnonMoos I wanted to ask you abot other: really Democrats don`t understand that Sanders and Buttigieg have no chance of defeating Trump? The first is barely breathing, and he is a socialist, the second is not of a traditional sexual orientation, and many Democrat voters, in my opinion, simply will not go to the polls, choosing between them and Trump, the chances of two women are unfortunately also doubtful: even Hillary did not succeed, and they can defeat Sanders only by teaming up, although they are all better than Trump, but the first two are without a chance, the other two Klobuchar and Warren simply will not pass the primaries. All that remains is Bloomberg - Out of the frying pan into the fire (A rich and unprincipled candidate of dubious principles and views), and Biden is the only normal candidate who can really confront Trump in the disputed states and among the undecided electorate. He is the only one who can repulse Russia and will not conspire with the owner of the Kremlin. And accordingly, it certainly will not allow a global war. Question: so why are all Democrats blind and ambitious and do not want to play in favor of Biden or another candidate who has a real chance of winning Trump?
AnonMoos I understand your opinion. But tell me, it's amazing that when I started the debate on the chances of uniting in favor of Biden and his nomination from the Democrats, they were close to zero, and now his chances are very high? Unfortunately, everything in our country is not very good: they have removed the pro-Western government, an independent prosecutor and hand over interests in Minsk; Zelensky and Trump are two boots of the pair: both TV presenters, actors, and businessmen with highly questionable political beliefs and knowledge in various fields. And then there is the coronavirus: we have conducted 67 tests for the entire 44 million country and boast that we have only 3 infected. I suspect that there are actually thousands of them: all restrictions are weak and belated. People from Europe go massively without quarantine. They say that you do not need to wear masks, the real reason: because they simply do not exist: everyone is pre-emptively sold to China, and may not be sick with respiratory illnesses. The problem is that patients do not particularly want to wear them. By the way, how are you: after all, all three candidates in the high risk zone?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
THE HARDKISS - ZHuravli. Ukrainian is one of the 3 most melodic in the world and you lost a lot without listening to Ukrainian songs 1 , Concours de langues de Paris 1934 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:20, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
In English 1, 2 are not the best in my opinion, but they are listening in the world.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:55, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
of those socio-political publications that have an English-language version of "The New Voice of Ukraine" https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor ?.
I suggest you read this article by en:Judy Dempsey on https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope
You may also be interested in articles and thoughts :
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/ukraine-war-insights-by-austrian-military-analyst-tom-cooper/
There is also a book by the most famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko
"Kobzar"
AnonMoos Hello! Unfortunately, yesterday I copied the same text twice, so the beginning disappeared and now it cannot be restored, but without the binding of the remaining text, I apologize for the incoherence.
In the missing part, I wrote that Orban has long been closely associated with the Russian mafia, and this is the reason for the strange constancy of the pro-Russian position of the Hungarian government. And it is very strange that there is still no desire to find a mechanism to exclude authoritarian Hungary from the EU and NATO.
And many times they said that pro-Russian and in many ways chauvinistic Serbia and the de facto fail state of Bosnia and Herzegovina with an even more odious Republika Srpska should join the EU and NATO before Ukraine, which had 4 revolutions for democracy over the past 33 years, 10 years war and the current large-scale invasion the largest war in the world in the last 77 years, a huge and bloody war for democracy, a war of democracy against against the new fascism and the new genocide of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars and other European nations and peoples, and not some kind of special operation there, not a small victorious war in 3 days, as seen in the Kremlin and Minsk, however, as well as in Berlin, Paris and Washington.
And vice versa, include democratic Ukraine, which for centuries stands as a border of Europe, defending it and its values from the invasion of the Asian Horde.
And even during the years of independence, for almost 30 years, Ukrainians have been acting as one force together with NATO troops. More detals Mission of NATO for the participation of Ukraine
In 1995-96, Ukrainian peacekeepers were together with the troops of NATO countries in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, unlike the Dutch, they did not run away, thereby creating the conditions for genocide. Then, also firmly, the Ukrainian military contributed to the establishment of peace in Kosovo & Maсedonia.
Then there was Iraq, where we did not leave, even after the death of a Ukrainian journalist from an American sniper's bullet, and Afghanistan, where we were the last to leave, we did not flee, but evacuated thousands of supporters of democracy abandoned by American allies. Where were Finland, Sweden or Hungary then, which are so welcome in NATO? Ukrainian special forces evacuated military translators who worked for the United States and film directors, and your government repeated Vietnam and Kurdistan, once again abandoning those who were domesticated. The little prince wouldn't do that, and it's not good. Especially in the context that throwing away a lot of equipment, including Apache helicopters and modernized Abrams with depleted uranium, giving them to the Taliban is normal, but giving these types of weapons to Ukraine at the 10th hour is an escalation. Ugh, cowards, sorry for the harshness.
Mass piercings of the American intelligence in Afghanistan and Ukraine are connected with the unprofessional head of the CIA, appointing a person from the Russian Federation to this post is complete nonsense.
You know how I supported Biden and said that the unification of Democrats around him is the only chance to defeat Trump. And so it happened. Trump's second term is still the greatest risk for peace in the whole world and for the peace of us and you. But Biden's second term with such a weak vice president is also a risk, so either he will throw the weak politically correct Kamala and the long-time companions of the Kremlin's views Carrie and Sullivan into the dustbin of history, choose Blinken or, as a last resort, Warren as vice president. And the head of the State Department should be John Herbst or William Taylor or Ben Hodges, the latter can also replace Milly, who is long overdue for retirement.
As you know, my ideal for the post of President of the USA is the late John McCain. But Bush Jr. also turned out to be not a bad president for the world and maintaining peace. Therefore, any Republican except Trump is for the world will be better than Biden with the current weak team. Even Ron DeSantis, although I would not like Mike Pence also for superstitious reasons. Unfortunately, Nikki Haley's chances of winning tend to zero. There is no chance that Jeb Bush or Consoliza Rice will win - there are also good candidates that we will not see. Therefore, if Trump is not allowed to run for office and if De does not win, then I am for Pompeo. This will not be a social president for you at all, but what are social benefits in a country that, with its indecision, is slowly leading us to the Third World War, and only the courage of Ukrainians, and let this indecisive help stand as an obstacle to this event for now. Therefore, let it be Mike Pompeo and he will pulverize all these eastern hyenas and other scavengers and help Ukraine to become a full member of NATO and the EU after the victory. And in order for this victory to happen, he will give Ukraine everything that is needed for victory and will not say that we cannot fight on the territory of the enemy, who every day destroys everything and everything on our sovereign territory. If we had been given tanks six months ago, the war would have ended a long time ago, but now we have to overcome thousands of obstacles and hundreds of thousands of mobilized Russians, now our army could easily reach Moscow and end the war, but because of the position of the West and the United States, we must first of all lose their best people while passing deeply echeloned defense on our occupied lands.
So, one should not expect a swift counter-offensive, if it were not for the position of the West, the Ukrainian army could seize all Ukrainian lands in Russia in a month and then change them to our constitutional territories or leave everything as it is with new borders and without our destroyed lands, or go to Moscow - everything would depend on changes in the leadership of the Kremlin and its new position after the conquest of Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh regions, it was also possible to bypass the borders from Voronezh region to Krasnodar with access to the Black Sea before the end of the year, and each of these options would be less bloody and easier for Ukrainian troops and more real for Western stockpiles of weapons than assaults on multi-echeloned lines in the south and east of Ukraine, but this is something to be afraid of and, as a result, undermining the Dam and a potential threat to the "Crimean Titan" and the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power station.
It's not about Putin, it's about tens of millions of Russians who support him, although the death of the main Putin, not his doppelgängers, can have an effect similar to the death of Stalin. And Patrushev, Prigozhin and Medvedev will repeat the fate of Beria, Malenkov and Khrushchev. But this country will never become a democracy in its current form for more than 10 years.
Unfortunately, yesterday I copied the same text twice, so the beginning disappeared and now it cannot be restored, but without the binding of the remaining text, I apologize for the incoherence.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
By the way, the son of candidate Kennedy fought in Ukraine, and unlike Robert and his grandson, his views are very strange to me... And what do you say about these two people?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:51, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
Is Serbia really going to join NATO anytime soon? The Serbia–NATO relations article doesn't indicate this... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:58, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos It has been repeatedly noted that Ukraine can be accepted into the EU and NATO only after the countries of the Western Balkans, allegedly because they have been waiting for it for a long time and were promised it. And the fact that those countries do nothing for this progress, unlike Ukraine, they do not care. As well as the fact that they have a population, a very large part of which does not support Euro-Atlantic integration and has chauvinistic or pro-Russian views. Neither in Bosnia nor in Serbia was there any powerful revolution for European values, there are also big questions in Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania. It was Ukraine's mistake that we submitted an application to the EU so late, and NATO's mistake was refusing to grant us a MAP in 2008. But then Bush promoted the idea of granting membership, and now Biden is blocking it and is the main blocker for Ukraine's membership right now. And if Serbia, Bosnia together with Serbian Krajina and Montenegro are included in the EU before Ukraine, they will never let Ukraine into the EU, at least the first two countries. And we have enough of Hungary. That is why I am now skeptical about the re-election of Biden with his current entourage. Because conversations about corruption and other trivial nonsense are already starting again. However, the level of corruption in Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Cyprus did not bother anyone at the time of entry...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:40, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Did you see Prigozhin's raid on Moscow? He had 8-20 thousand people with a minimal amount of equipment and he almost reached Moscow in two days, until Patrushev ordered him to stop. That's what I said. Can you imagine what 10 well-trained Ukrainian brigades with hundreds of armored vehicles could have done if Biden had not so stubbornly forbidden us to do it? After all, all combat-ready troops of the Russian Federation are now in Ukraine. Why should the best Ukrainians die in the south and east of Ukraine storming several kilometers of fortifications instead of reaching Moscow almost unscathed? Why is the USA so afraid of the collapse of Russia, because all their previous fears of escalation in Ukraine or the collapse of the USSR were groundless? Instead, it is this indecision that opens the hands of the Kremlin for the worst actions...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
They are told that they can take Ukraine after war, but they do nothing to make our offensive successful. The troops of the NATO countries have never attacked without the 5th advantage in the air, while we have at least 5 times fewer planes and helicopters on our offensive line, that is, at least 25 times less than by NATO standards. We are not given missiles that fire at 300-500 km but Russia fires at us missiles with a range of 500-3000 km, which Bill Clinton forced us to give to Russia from aircraft that he forced to give to Russia. Has the US forgotten the Budapest Guarantees? Also, we are forbidden to shoot at Russia, and it is shelling peaceful cities throughout the country. And our country is the largest of those that are completely in Europe.
Texas is a red state in many ways, do you know any Republicans who are not Trumpists? Who are they planning to vote for? And who do you plan to vote for, because as I say, Biden is again the best option among the Democrats. How much better would Anthony Blinken of the Democrats and Nikki Haley or Condoleezza Rice of the Republicans be, though, than a Biden-Trump repeat or even a Biden-DeSanctis variant. By the way, our region is similar to Texas in electoral terms, it is one of those doubtful regions where the fate of the country was determined. Although our electoral system is simpler and the president with the most votes in the country wins.
By the way, before his death last year, shortly after the start of a new aggression of the first president Kravchuk, who at that time had just begun to recover from heart surgery, all 6 presidents and one acting president were alive. By this indicator, we were probably the first in the world. Now the United States is probably in first place - 6 living presidents, and we have 5 + 1.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:10, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Border problems did not prevent post-Nazi Germany and thoroughly corrupt Cyprus from joining NATO. Although it threatened much bigger problems. The powerful USSR did not stand in the way of supplying West Berlin, and a weak Russia causes all Western politicians to be cowardly? Ukraine stands at the gate of the democratic world, losing its best sons, and US or NATO troops can only protect Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria or Taiwan, which have nothing in common with them? Despite the fact that the USA and other NATO nuclear powers, together with Russia, did not take away the entire most powerful arsenal of weapons from them. How much can you be afraid of the Russian Federation? After all, they never carried out their threats, especially in response to the decisive actions of the enemy. Acceptance into NATO would be a strong step, and after a weak summit, Russia is sending troops to Belarus with the aim of potentially capturing the Suwalki Corridor. This is the result of the weak position of the Biden administration. And this would never happen if Ukraine joined the Alliance.
This is all reminiscent of the Munich conspiracy and NATO leaders have forgotten the similar slogan "one for all and all for one". D'Artagnan was less aristocratic than Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and they didn't know him at all and had reason to kill him, and all four turned against the cardinal's guards. Unfortunately, only Macron and Sunak at the summit resembled Aramis a little, and Biden and Scholz are not at all similar to Athos and Porthos in their behavior. They don't even look like De Treville, more like Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarini. Money and intrigue are more important to them than the lives of younger partners. After all, the behavior of the West is like those Athos and Porthos who say to D'Artagnan, we will not fight alongside you for victory, nor can we give you a sword, but we will give you a knife, but in no case do not use it in Britain, only on the territory your France Something similar. And we'll never take you into the Musketeers until you get the pendants out of Britain with this fine knife of ours. So thank us for this great and powerful help!
Biden is like that old Akella, who tamed Mowgli-Ukraine, who is about to fail, and this is exactly what Putin-Sherkhan is waiting for. However, he forgot that he must be responsible for those whom he tamed. But even more he will remind King Théoden struck by the charms of Saruman and the lies of Gríma Wormtongue. Unfortunately, this is exactly what the president of the United States, the most powerful country in the world, looks like. Powerful and old and bewitched by the magic and lies of Wormtongue Jake Sullivan and other agents of influence of the Kremlin in the District of Columbia William Burns and John Kerry, who are telling him that a slow China with a small handful of nuclear weapons and total dependence on the US in the form of trillions in debt and turnover is greater a threat to fast and fascist Russia, whose goal is the destruction of the West. Unlike China, which is slow to form its goals and only applies economic instruments. But all the same, they seem to tremble with fear because of the possible collapse of Russia, because it seems to strengthen the People's Republic of China - the biggest threat. And if they continue to act like this, it will lead to a world war right now and it will not be necessary to wait 100 years for a war with China. And every reasonable person understands this, and for some reason Biden believes them or pretends to.
Kennedy and Williamson, in my opinion, are even worse than Trump for Ukraine, so I hope that they have no chance of being in the final elections. I'm not talking about Biden, with all his minuses and the caution of the old wolf. But better old wolf than those three inhabitants of the Shutter Island flying over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
This is the first I've heard from your Texas Republican, what do you think of Gavin Newsom? Yasnodark ( talk) 14:30, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps, by the end of this month, our troops will succeed in breaking through the enemy's defenses...--
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Although if Ukraine had not been forbidden to go to the enemy's territory, all these sacrifices would have been unnecessary, because there is no echeloned defense or troops from Chernihiv to Moscow, not 9 equipped but 5 brigades could reach Moscow, and 9 could take it and the end of the war would come. However, we were stubbornly forbidden to do so, and boys and girls at the front and peaceful people all over Ukraine are dying from missile attacks, the head of the President's Office Yermak asked for the "Patriot" system six months before the invasion, the president asked to impose sanctions a week before the possible invasion to prevent the invasion and the West said that there would be an invasion and did nothing to help. Recruited by the Kremlin when he lived in Moscow, the head of the CIA Burns, as the US ambassador, presciently predicted that Afghanistan would last at least 6 months after the withdrawal of troops, and he did not resist for three days, millions of people accustomed to democracy were betrayed and thrown at the mercy of even military interpreters and prominent the artists were taken away not by the American, but by the Ukrainian special forces. This same brilliant "Nostradamus" with the Kremlin spirit predicted that Ukraine would hold out for three days and once again fell down and kept his post, is this not Biden's foresight or something else? Sullivan is even worse, he is one of those "golden boys" that Russia drives in droves, talking about the great Russian people and recruiting the golden youth of the West and young intellectuals, some for money and some for ballet and books. Every time you meet congressmen or senators or their representatives, if you go to such meetings, demand the resignation of Sullivan and Burns, because if they stay there will be the Third World. Their place is in the most rotten ditch, not in high offices. Kamala Devil Harris should also be got rid of immediately, because if Biden doesn't do it, he will never win at his age with such a weak vice president, when to play liberalism, it should be Blinken, Hodges, or if a woman is more powerful, for example Linda Thomas-Greenfield may be better. Otherwise, he may lose even to Trump, and if this continues, the Ukrainians will be ready to take risks, even rooting for Trump, he is unpredictable and the Kremlin has classified information on him, he is indifferent to values and the world order will be at risk, his second term is very dangerous for everyone, because of the limitations will not. However, he has already spat on that compromising material once, it was under Trump that we were first given the "Javelins," which we requested for 5 years under Obama, and it was under Trump that Western bombers with nuclear weapons flew over the border with Crimea to fulfill the Budapest memorandum and no one put them under questioning the freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, now the US administration has completely ignored this basic principle of its international policy. It was precisely against such double standards that Heinlein and McCain, who were called hawks and militarists, and they were simply far-sighted people who did not want greater sacrifices in a greater war, because they went through such wars personally and did not consider soldiers as pawns on a large chessboard, and Russia as a democratic and cultural the country it never was. Therefore, either Biden will change his rotten environment or the Wagnerites will go to Kaliningrad so that the Suwalki corridor between Poland and Lithuania will disappear and then American soldiers will die in a new big war. That is why, in the current conditions, any Republican other than Trump is better for Ukraine, America and the world than Biden in a second term with the current advisers and vice president and heads of special services, because no Republican will talk about escalation without providing weapons. Unfortunately, Trump is not a true Republican, and that's the problem. And God forbid we see a new Biden-Trump duel...
I told you right away that the offensive would not be quick, because planes, missiles, and tanks were not given to us in time, and unfortunately, even the next promises turned out to be only promises, and the destruction of the Kakhovska HPP made it impossible to make a backup offensive after leaks from the United States about the main direction of the attack, but now I still say that a breakthrough is possible at the border of August and September, because the Ukrainian soldiers are already fighting in a different way due to the lack of essentials, and at least the cluster shells recently gave us, and now the advantage of the Russian artillery is "only" twofold, and not 20-fold, as it was last year and 5 times as much as it was in the spring. Ukrainians have also developed models of air and sea drones that reach military bases in the occupied territories and in Russia, so the Russians will not be so comfortable. But the main thing is that the Americans should know that Ukrainians are killed every day in the occupied territories and in peaceful cities, in addition, Ukrainians from the occupied territories are forcibly mobilized and sent to their deaths without the possibility of surrendering or retreating because the cordoning units and the situation at the front do not give such an opportunity. Even people with pro-Ukrainian views are often forced to fight against other Ukrainians, because torture chambers in basements are even worse and few choose this option of torture and slow death. All this should be remembered when the Americans in high places conduct their "escalation" calculations, once again not providing us with the necessary weapons and saying that the Ukrainians do not need them. Because this is an outright lie. Read the interview of Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhnyi https://mind.ua/en/news/20259412-we-need-more-weapons-airplanes-and-patience-key-points-from-general-zaluzhnys-interview-with-th .
P.S. Forgive me if I am again too harsh in my judgments, but I can see better, because in 1939-41 Roosevelt was just as inflexible in helping Britain and even more so the USSR and only Pearl Harbor rallied the allies. I don't think that it will be good to fall into the same rake again for the new American president of the lean years, because in this way you may not live to victory, and the desire to avert escalation will only lead to it, and this has already happened more than 10 times in this war alone and that old war as well and no less. We always thank our Western partners, but they don't tell us enough. And we always say you give too little for victory and too late. Ukraine may not be able to withstand it if this continues in the future, and the West does not take this into account. Just as there will be no peace in Europe as long as Russia exists in the present imperial prison of nations, Carthage must be destroyed. What do you think would happen if Allen Dulles managed to sign a separate agreement with the Nazis and there was no entry of the Allies into the territory of Germany? There would be another even bigger war and new millions of victims, and it is not clear to us how Biden does not understand this, giving a negotiating mandate to the new Dulles - Sullivan and Burns, who are playing into the hands of the Kremlin, giving the Russians a chance to make new, more powerful weapons. That is why we thank you, but we are waiting for the necessary weapons and thanks for the fact that Ukraine holds the front of democracy, because this is not a Ukrainian war, but a war of the West with Russia, to which the West has not yet appeared and is fighting with the hands of Ukrainians, shedding our blood.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:33, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
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-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:33, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Non-recognition of the occupation of the Baltic states for 52 years did not make their residents free and did not free them from the killing of repressions and deportations of hundreds of thousands of residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. At any moment, Russia can try to invade the Wagner groups and Belarusians on the border of Lithuania and Poland and can say that it has nothing to do with this in the case of an operational response from NATO, and if there is no response, Putin will boast of successful land expansion or praise Lukashenko
NATO's only hope is the decisive actions of the armed forces of Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden or Finland in the first weeks of a possible military provocation in one direction or another, because NATO as a whole is not ready to repel even a proxy attack Russia, not to mention a full-scale invasion of the Baltics, although the first option is even more difficult because it will give another reason not to react.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:48, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Above, I listed a whole bunch of fairly direct attacks on NATO forces: the destruction of military depots and people on NATO territory, the destruction of aircraft and ships of NATO countries, missile strikes and flights of missiles and helicopters into the space of NATO countries, and not only the fifth was not included, but also 4th article. And even the 5th provides only for consultations, and there are not such stupid people sitting in the Kremlin that the attack would be their direct style, and their military doctrine always provides for indirect hybrid methods of military operations. Indeed, during Stoltenberg's time, NATO, which was pushed to be disbanded, found a new life and the former supporter of Russia lost to the supporter of democracy in his soul, Stoltenberg did a lot against the opposition of vegetarian pacifists and Russian agents within the alliance. That is why progress is so difficult, besides, the targets do not understand the risks and do not understand the essence of Russia and the impossibility of its democratic development in its current form. By the way, Trump was the first to pay attention to the schedule - moral and physical NATO, he is not an enemy of NATO, he made it clear that NATO and the USA are now the same thing and if European countries do not rearm and spend money instead of destroying their stocks and equipment, then in the absence of the desire in the USA to fight NATO will fall in weeks... The only exceptions are Turkey, Britain and partly Poland during Trump's time and so far not much has changed, although combat-capable Finland has been added and France and Germany are also increasing their combat capability, albeit at a very slow pace. I'm telling you, the defense plan of the 3 Baltic countries provided for their complete rapid occupation, which should last six months and only after six months of preparation with the destruction of the best people and the deportation of many others to Siberia, which of course NATO did not think about, because there is in the 21st, are there countries that will violate conventions and rules? Idiots. NATO planned to respond and start a battle for the Baltic states, this was the plan for the time of the invasion of Ukraine...
So, Putin is not stupid enough to go straight, but he is defiantly stupid enough to go hybrid, and the decision depends exclusively on those advisers who will be next to him at this time - hawks or pragmatists, and if hawks are smart or stupid and if pragmatists - then pragmatics of agreements or pragmatics of hybrid power and agreements after an attack on the rights of the strong. And if one of the two aggressive Waratans out of 4 wins, a hybrid attack will be made. In the Kremlin, it's not us who will say this, it's Prigozhin's crazy prisoners and fascists, we ourselves barely suffocated them, you yourself saw how they almost didn't reach Moscow, thank you for helping the intelligence officers then and that didn't happen. However, Lukashenko helped us with them then and now he conspired with them, and as you can see his troops also attacked the corridor, we are against it, of course, I am afraid that now they will attack our bases and fleet in Kaliningrad, etc. Oh, it was already seized while you and I were talking, Mr. Sullivan, what a shame, you probably still need to impose sanctions on Lukashenka and Prigozhin. Moreover, the attacks will most certainly not be on Poland, but on Lithuania or directly along the border of the two states. Do you really think that a couple of thousand NATO troops in Lithuania and even 10-20 thousand hastily assembled Lithuanian troops will be able to stop 10 thousand Wagner specialists who have gone through 5 wars with a reserve of several tens of thousands of Belarusian troops who have been training continuously for 20 months. Do you know how long it takes to transfer troops? And will the reaction be instantaneous, so that troops of at least the size that Prigozhin and Lukashenko can field will be deployed within a week? And if the attack is successful, the Kremlin will say that the territory of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and an attack on it will be an attack on the territory of Russia and the beginning of a nuclear war, what will Biden say. By the way, Trump reacted in Syria instantly, and after Russia said that hundreds of Wagnerites attacking the US-controlled factory were not Russians, they were immediately bombed. Erdogan immediately shot down a Russian plane in controlled airspace. However, the Democrats have shown that they will, to put it bluntly, chew snot and not respond quickly, and if the Kremlin thinks so, then there will be attacks. Of course, there will be a reaction, but even if it is lightning-fast in decision-making, it will take weeks or at least days for the transfer of troops, and in this period of time I only hope for the Armed Forces of Poland, Ukraine and other Baltic countries, in particular, the important position of Finland and Sweden. But even if everything happens like this and the response is lightning-fast, it is better for Poland and Lithuania and can save Latvia and Estonia, but even in this case, Russia will receive another bonus: all the weapons that were planned for Ukraine will be transferred to the Baltic States and Russian personnel forces will move to a new offensive, more precisely, they will intensify it, because it is already underway in a number of areas, and now the question is being resolved where the breakthrough will be faster: Ukrainian in the South or Russian in the east or north of my country.
P.S. The area of Taiwan is less than 36 thousand square km, the area of Ukraine is less than 604 thousand square km, the controlled territory is more than more than 490 thousand square km, the United States provided Taiwan with 50 batteries of Patriot systems, and Ukraine with 2 Patriot systems, is this really fair and are the risks so great for in East Asia to allow Russian missiles to destroy everything and everyone in Ukraine with impunity? And is it possible to give Ukraine 10 batteries to cover another 10 million people and the largest enterprises and cultural centers in 7 cities and their suburbs, as well as 3 nuclear plants, and Taiwan to promise to provide 10 from America in case of an attack on the Chinese island? Yasnodark ( talk) 13:10, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! I waited and procrastinated for a long time before writing this ill-advised post, but my patience ran out, it's been half a year, but the visa is still there., but my patience gave way. One gets the impression that you have only selfish and short-sighted idiots sitting in the Congress, and not politicians-statesmen. and from both sides (of course, your parliament is no exception, but I expected better from the most influential legislative body in the world). While Ukrainians are dying en masse due to lack of weapons and ammunition, these incompetent narcissistic profane
have been blocking a vital aid package for Ukraine for months because of their own political ambitions, stubbornly dragging the whole world into the maelstrom of the third world war. I think that in order for Ukraine to receive help and not be able to seize the whole of Europe, the PRC should strike the US military base in Okinawa, maybe then the imbeciles will wake up, that they are playing with fire. After all, populists from both parties behaved in the same way after the beginning of the Second World War until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, not giving the necessary help to either Great Britain or the USSR, and only then did Roosevelt and the parliamentarians wake up. Then the situation changed and it was already too late for many millions of dead in Europe and hundreds of thousands of Americans, and these victims could have been avoided if real help had been given after the attack on China, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia or Poland, but even an attack on France, Britain or The USSR did not significantly change the situation.
Experience says: a miser pays twice and whoever does not want to pay in money will pay in blood. It seems that America is choosing the second path, stepping on the same rake again. And you still don't hear how the appetite of the Russians is whetting and how they are going to conquer all of Europe and write on the car instead of last year's "To Berlin" now "To Washington", how they switched to military rails and how the aid to the DPRK, Iran and the PRC is increasing Russia, while the USA and the EU fall into lethargy, because the EU package of 50 billion is blocked by Putin's friend Orban due to his common ties with the Russian mafia, moreover, the only safe trade route to the west is blocked in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary by agents of the Kremlin from the right-wing parties, and the Russian Federation in all countries supports the far-right and the far-left, and blind voters do not notice this, by the way, you have socialists among the Democrats and Trumpists among the Republicans, who influence the parties as a whole, and both of them are paid by the Kremlin. I'm not talking about how the Russian Federation organized an attack on Israel from Gaza and the now planned attack by Venezuela on Guyana...
However, most sleazy politicians and journalists cannot put 2 and 2 together...
Time after time, the New York Times and the Washington Post spread unprecedented fakes about Ukraine and release secret information about military supplies and plans of Ukraine, disrupting our operations or revealing our secret special operations, and they do it as disgustingly as Tucker Carlson or Fox News. However, most sleazy politicians and journalists cannot put 2 and 2 together Don't congressmen and journalists on the payroll of the Kremlin understand that hundreds of thousands of Americans will die because of them? And why is the socialist minority controlling the Democrats by pushing aid to Gaza and blocking the migrant barrier, while the Trumpist minority is manipulating all Republicans by making unacceptably tough demands on migrants, blocking the package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan? By the way, the United States has given Taiwan, with its area of 36,500 square kilometers 50 Patriot systems, and Ukraine, with an area of 603 square kilometers or more than 490, 000 square kilometers, currently has only 1 system, and all allies - only 4 should be installed by the end of winter, despite the fact that no one is firing missiles at Taiwan, and Ballistic missiles are flying in Ukraine, which can be shot down only by "Patriot" and the European analogue, now there are only 3 of them, which can protect only the capital and one more city, although ballistic missiles have not been shot down in any of the other cities... The planes have not been provided yet, because training it just started, and pro-Russian forces came to power in the Netherlands, which may not provide the promised planes when someone learns, although 60 of the best pilots have already died, including the 2 most famous ghosts of Kyiv and their teacher, who had to fly out himself due to a lack of pilots.
There are no rules for the Russians: ours run out of ammunition - they surrender in captivity and are shot, and if they are not shot - they are tortured in the basements for years without the right to exchange, because the Russians in our captivity live in better conditions than they have at home at large, and many of I did not see them that way, because they are prisoners.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:47, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
And I am not the only "free radical" in my views, here is an example of what Tetyana Danylenko, the wife of the brigade commander of the most combat-capable Third Assault Brigade Andriy Biletskyi, writes, a well-known independent journalist who was the TV face of Maidans in 2004-5 and 2013-14:
"If Ukraine loses, Russia will form an army of one million Ukrainians and advance on Europe. The Ukrainian authorities do not really want to announce a mass mobilization in order not to frighten the electorate. The Kremlin will die. This whole horde with foreign troops will march to the West. In the Baltic States, we will check whether Article 5 of NATO is working. It is obvious that it will work, but as long as NATO countries hold consultations, it will no longer be relevant. And then the most interesting will begin. No exit from Afghanistan for the US will be comparable in effect to those events that are quite possible in the event of Ukraine's failure. In a matter of days, the United States will turn from a world hegemon into just a big country, one of many. This will be an opportunity to find out whether the final foreign policy collapse will help them improve the quality of health insurance and solve the problem of the border with Mexico..."-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:38, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
By the way, for comparison, the last two aid packages from Denmark for Ukraine amount to 500 million and 1 billion euros, respectively, i.e. 1,500 billion euros together, i.e. 300 euros for each resident of Denmark, the last 2 packages from the USA amounted to 175 and 200 million, i.e. 375 million dollars together, which is 1 euro per US resident. These are the pies, as Jim Carrey said.- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:39, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Because US support has completely stopped and the last billion from the reserve fund, which was planned for Ukraine, Biden transferred in December to replenish US military reserves, and Johnson is spreading an outright lie that we do not need support in December and January, although our troops stopped the offensive from -for this reason, problems with containing the Russian influx are already being felt...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Then, when Ukraine fought on its own, aid came, and every time we could defeat Russia, then the aid was artificially reduced, all types of weapons were provided to us late and in small quantities, and the planes still have not been provided, Biden blocked for 2 years even the training of our pilots by other countries, even the transfer Soviet airplanes in Poland - they arbitrarily disassembled their airplanes and told us where they were placed on the border in the forest disassembled Soviet airplanes. Such is the good old cautious Biden. Mr. "there is no need for escalation". Dozens of experienced American pilots wanted to fight in Ukraine and were not given planes. And almost 70 of the best Ukrainian pilots have already died because of the positions of the Biden cabinet because they risked their lives on leaky troughs made 40-60 years ago However, the worst thing was that Biden blocked the implementation of the Lend-Lease law initiated by the Republicans specifically to avoid pauses in the supply of weapons and the possibility of providing really powerful aid, even when a crisis arose in Congress, he did not automatically extend it and the possibility of extension no longer depended on him and her was lost
And it was the Democrats who changed the rules so that only 1 congressman could make the resignation of the speaker possible.
When McCarthy was dismissed from the post of speaker who agreed to put to a vote the draft law on aid to Ukraine for 2024, all the Democrats voted for his resignation, knowing that the next speaker could be a Trumpist.
Moreove, the Democrats could elect an excellent republican adequate pro-Ukrainian speaker Steve Scalise and they did not vote.
Later, they could elect a more or less adequate and independent balanced slightly Trumpist Jim Jordan by giving at least 20 votes, but they did not vote and were elected with the help of Trumpist votes and Trump's puppet schizo Johnson was elected and what is strange is now they are trying to convince him of support in case of resignation instead initiate it and vote for Scales.
In addition, the position of the Democrats on the border is also not clear, so I asked about your attitude to the current migration policy of the United States...
Therefore, in the opinion of a thoughtful part of Ukrainians, the Democrats are not much better than the Republicans
Our ideal Republican candidate is Nikki Haley, but is there any chance of her being nominated. From the Democrats, of course, there is no alternative to Biden, although Gavin Newsom, Tony Blinken or Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio could easily defeat Trump, it would be easier if Biden did not even refuse to go to the elections, but maybe he removed Kamala Harris and went with someone from this trio. What am I afraid of? the biggest thing is Biden's refusal to run in favor of Michelle Obama - this is the beginning of the end for Ukraine and the beginning of the end for the entire civilized world. You don't understand this - but we can see it. And who to choose, Biden or Trump, in the interests of Ukraine is difficult to determine. As they say in our country: a terrible end is better than endless horror, and he who does not take risks does not drink champagne, so if Biden does not come to his senses and provide quick help without looking back at Congress, then Trump is better - Trump is surrounded by idiots however, Biden is surrounded by Russian agents who have a real influence on him, and Trump is influenced only by Trump. Ukrainians did not make a mistake when they elected Zelensky - a cat - in a bag - instead of the more predictable Poroshenko, so if the Americans elect Trump - we will try to take a second risk. If there were still elections now, instead, you still have to wait until your inauguration...
What is completely incomprehensible to me is why you have such objectionable laws: for example, in our country, if the budget is not adopted on time, the country lives on 1/12 of last year's budget, and why there is no such simple solution in the USA, I do not understand at all.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:58, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
AnonMoos What was your impression after the debate? Biden and his supporters talk a lot about Trump's lies. There were many manipulations in his words on various topics, but regarding Ukraine he told the pure truth, instead, Biden lied and manipulated facts everywhere, I think partly due to health problems, because he lost cause-and-effect and temporal relationships due to memory problems yatta and milestone functions. So in this pair, the winner is known, unfortunately, it is still unknown what kind of winner it is, because it is not clear what Trump and his will be like. And the replacement candidates are even worse, for Biden, not for Trump.
In my opinion, you would have chosen better actors like us: Sean Penn, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Barbra Streisand or Julia Roberts - it would have been much better. Actors have a big plus - endurance to loads and, unlike athletes, intelligence is often present, and the cynicism of politicians is absent. By the way, in what sequence would you place these celebrities?
Although you can just rob Tony Blinken and not suffer... Yasnodark ( talk) 13:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
It is worth watching his film about Ukraine Superpower (2023) / https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18327788/ -- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:08, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Barbra Streisand was the first infamous celebrity to volunteer to support the United 24 fundraising platform. I didn't call them dangerous liberals of foreign views. Although the other three from the list are somewhat uncertain in today's world, but the same Bloom came to Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, and DiCaprio also supported the truth, Aniston was the first to pay attention to the " Come Back Alive" platform.
Any of them will definitely be better than both candidates. You have to watch the debate. Unfortunately, I overslept these debates of yours and have only watched many fragments so far.
Biden looked pitiful, a pale shadow of himself, and even on the friendly SNN channel scored only 33 percent out of 100. Trump looked unconventionally decent, as manipulative as always, but surprisingly less than Biden. It was especially depressing to watch Biden when he, when he came across a convenient topic of banning abortion, connected it to the mass arrival of migrants in an attempt to saddle a topic convenient for the Republicans-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:16, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
In this week's issue of our Austin "alt-weekly", there's an article about Oleksandr Svatok, who previously played in Dnipro, now about to play for an Austin soccer team... AnonMoos ( talk) 18:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:09, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
I might join ISFDB if I could ask a story-ID or "YASID" question, but it doesn't seem that such questions would be welcome there... The "Top Novels as Voted by ISFDB Users" listing is a little strange, since it only sporadically corresponds to what are either great classics or highly-popular works in the SF field. For instance, books by Roger Zelazny and Alfred Bester are very highly ranked. I like one book by Bester, and have read 15 or 20 by Zelazny, but I don't understand the way that their books are ranked here -- for example, "Roadmarks", a perfectly readable but not necessarily highly-distinguished 1979 Roger Zelazny novel, is ranked over ten places higher than Tolkien's "The Return of the King" (which apparently stands in for the "Lord of the Rings" series)!
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21:36, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos I agree that the rating you mentioned looks a bit strange. Although it is most likely compiled in the opinion of the site's editors, at the same time the second
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/stats.cgi?14 one looks absolutely adequate, but it is unclear whether I have an opinion there, because the number of points or grades is incredibly high. I think it's worth trying to register. Unfortunately, I do not have something to register. So if it's easy for you, I would ask you to try it. I can add more legal topics to start entering there.
In D0.B0.D0.BD.D1.81.D0.BE.D0.B2.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9 Item 81 on this page ask about the birthplace of the science fiction writer.
In in this encyclopedia of speculative fiction "Энциклопедия фантастики: кто есть кто?": ок. 1300 статей / В. И. Бугров [и др.]; ред. В. Гаков. — Минск: ИКО «Галаксиас», 1995. — 694 с. — ISBN 985-6269-01-6 * there is an answer to the question about Sever Hansovsky and many others.
In addition, 2-3 years ago, someone not very smart put question marks next to all Slavic writers and their works, I claim that they are all fairly included in the isfdb database and are in the relevant encyclopedias of speculative fiction and databases in Russian, Ukrainian or Polish. This is very important. I think that this is enough to enter the community, and then you can ask about ratings without any problems. Yasnodark ( talk) 15:36, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
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Haida! Зараз у Кнайпі (політики) один користувач різко підняв тему невичитаних перекладів і пообіцяв промонітирити місячники, тож я прошу вас переглянути створені під час останнього статті. Бо я та Медіафонд бувало помічали такі проблеми, тож краще підрихтувати текст вашого внеску для запобігання аналогічних проблем до згаданих у темі "Одеської евакуації 1920" у "така гаківка нам...". Якщо це повідомлення звідси до вас дійде — можете пінганути з словом "ознайомився" з вашої чернетки чи сторінки обговорення, щоб не було зайвого привертання уваги до вашого внеску. Бо проблеми можуть бути, суджу за прикладом. Та й рахувати мені буде простіше... -- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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@Yasnodark. It seems you have no experience with this, and you are very close to being indeffed. Here is my advice. (a) Never comment again at ANI and about other users per WP:NPA. You are doing a disservice to yourself and others. (b) Discuss your differences on article talk page. (c) The tag-teaming is obvious, unless this is also a WP:SOCK problem. Do not do that or all of you can be indeffed pretty soon. Finally, I am petty much pro-Ukrainian, hence this advice. Happy editing! My very best wishes ( talk) 16:40, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Please review this edit of yours. If the book was published in 1995, which did you add a 2016 category to the article? Debresser ( talk) 23:53, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
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similarly to this article.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:40, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
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Is there any particular reason that the Ukrainian Wikipedia "Gor (planeta)" article uses the German-language map instead of the English-language map? AnonMoos ( talk) 12:56, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunately, translations of Ukrainian speculative fiction in the USA are very bad, maybe these links can help:
Perhaps you will be able to use the automatic translation in Google, then at least in general terms you can familiarize yourself with the texts of some books
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Maybe if you visit the Ukrainian Center in Austin, they can provide you with some English-language books by Ukrainian speculative fiction writers
And here you can hear the living Ukrainian language, this audiobook presents the text of the 1930s - one of the first science fiction books in Ukrainian by Volodymyr Vladko about the exploration of Venus "Argonauts of the Universe"
As for the science fiction writers you named, Bulgakov was born in Kyiv, the father of the Strugatsky brothers was born in the now flooded Kherson, the mother was in the Chernihiv province and spoke Ukrainian. All four were persecuted and not given freely in the USSR.
I suspect that you also do not know that Chekhov had both grandmothers and both grandfathers were Ukrainians and before moving to Russia he did not know the Russian language, he hated Moscow, and his Ukrainian city Taganrog was forcibly transferred to the RSFSR in 1924, this happened after the decision of the joint Ukrainian-Russian commission to transfer the Ukrainian lands of the Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk and Bryansk regions to Ukraine and the subsequent appeal of the leadership of the Russian Federation, after which almost all these lands were forcibly left to Russia against the will of the local population, at the same time, two other Ukrainian districts - Taganrog and Shakhtsky okrug to Russia. In 1931, thousands of schools with the Ukrainian language of instruction were liquidated on these and other lands, and after that millions of Ukrainians were killed during the artificial Holodomor of 1932-33 and repressions in the 1930s, which was on all Ukrainian lands. Many others were exiled, the rest were recorded as Russians and Ukrainians were squeezed out of them. This process continues to this day, and although part of the population still speaks Ukrainian, they were told that this is only a dialect of Russian, and the majority have lost their Ukrainian consciousness. The same is being done now with the inhabitants of the occupied territories: they burn Ukrainian books, they kill or send them to torture in the basement for using the Ukrainian language, they send children to correctional concentration camps, where they are forced to learn the Russian anthem for 4 hours a day and brainwashed, the occupiers loot and they rape, including children and pesionaries, during the flood after the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, unique reserves and museums were flooded, and drowning people are surrounded by cordons and are not allowed to evacuate, just like the villages were surrounded during the Holodomors until most people died out. In Kakhovka the reservoir had so much water that it was possible to drink the entire population of the Earth for two years, it supplied annually more than 4 million Ukrainians in the south and in the Crimea, thousands hundreds of thousands of wild animals and possibly thousands of people died. In total, more than a thousand medical institutions, the same number of educational and cultural facilities, hundreds of sports facilities, dozens of power plants and the same number of airports, thousands of houses and enterprises were destroyed and damaged in Ukraine. In Mariupol alone, from 25 to 100 thousand people were killed, and the city was wiped off the face of the Earth. Every night - rocket strikes, we had yesterday at 3 am. And this is in a "relatively peaceful" city, you can imagine what is happening in others. Back in October 2021, the head of the administration, Andriy Yermak, asked the "Patriot" systems to give them only in May and only two, thousands of victims and thousands of unique objects could have been avoided, the planes were promised to us on the third day of the big war, and only recently the issue began to be resolved.
At the same time, due to an incomprehensible decision of your government, Ukrainian businessman Maksym Polyakov was forced to sell the space company that connected our two cities due to the fact that he is a citizen of Ukraine and his brainchild "Firefly Aerospace" became someone else's, and this was a new chance for the Ukrainian nation to pave the way to space, because it is Ukrainians Kybalchich, Tsiolkovsky, Sikorsky, Kondratyuk, Glushko, Korolyov, Antonov, Yangel, Popovych and others made almost the biggest contribution to mankind becoming a cosmic race. It was Ukrainians who designed and created the first space vehicles, calculated the trajectories of the space flights of the USSR and the USA, launched the first satellite, and the first song in space also sounded Ukrainian -- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
I answered above.
Persons associated with Ukraine who made space exploration possible:
AnonMoos 2 books by Oles Berdnyk "Star corsar" & "The apostle of immortality"
and 3 books by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko https://dyachenkowriters.com/books/ have been translated into English. I suspect that translations of Max Kidruk, the most famous among young science fiction writers, may soon be published. You can probably get some other books or find out which ones have been translated at the Ukrainian Society of Austin.
Also, by searching for the following sites in Google, you can press the translate button and go to the auto-translated version and at least understand something about our speculative fiction in general terms.
And you can try to learn Ukrainian on this site
Even more Ukrainian speculative fiction books have been translated into French, but there is also something in Hebrew.
As for Tsiolkovskyi, he has a much smaller relationship with Ukraine, unlike the others. His father was from Ukraine, and he himself noted in the margins of the encyclopedia that he was a direct descendant of the famous Ukrainian Cossack Severyn Nalyvayko, but he made his discoveries in Russia. And Yuriy Kondratyuk, Serhiy Korolyov and other pioneers of cosmonautics have a direct relationship with Ukraine. It was according to Kondratyuk's calculations that the USSR and the USA flew into space and onto the moon for the first time. His fate is completely unknown, he disappeared during the Second World War, but somehow his diary ended up in the USA - either someone moved it from the concentration camp or he himself moved with von Braun, the most incredible version is that he is von Braun. John Houbolt said, he died in 1952 in the USA. The initiator of the USSR flights into space and the launch of the first satellite of dogs and people into space was another Ukrainian Serhiy Korolyov, he died on the operating table while preparing the project of an expedition to Mars, and the rockets were developed by Valentin Hlushko and him. The author of the "Big Bang" theory, George Gamov and Carl Sagan, whose parents were born in Ukraine, are probably the most famous astrophysicists and cosmologists in the world. Pavlo Popovych - cosmonaut number 4-5 and the first singer in space, Oleg Antonov designed the largest plane in the world "Mriya" destroyed by the Russians, it was the first air launch project. And the first large airplanes and helicopters were made by the Ukrainian Ihor Sikorsky, partly already in the USA. The sea launch project is connected with our Zenit rockets, which Musk called the best in the world before creating his own. Antares parts and stages are also made in Ukraine. Ukraine also participates in the Artemis project. Well, Max Polyakov, the 4th private space investor in the world, as I wrote earlier, had to sell his company because of the position of your government on the eve of the war, because part of the company was in the Dnipro and he himself was a citizen of Ukraine...
Just shortly before this, I wanted to write to you that there is the 4th company in the world headed by a Ukrainian, which is located simultaneously in Austin and Dnipro. However, it was not before that, and you did not respond to the SF list of 1999. By the way, you don't want to get distracted and return to the lists by years, at least it's very distracting.
About 50 civilians died in the Dnipro in just one incident. And in general, probably three times more. And even before February 24, 2022, more than 500 soldiers from the Dnipro died, now this number is also much higher. More than 350 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have died since 2014, and more than 300 since February 24, including 11 world champions and as many medalists of world and European championships and more than 100 champions of Ukraine. During the rocket attacks on the Dnipro, athletes were also killed, in the strike that you mentioned, it seems 4. 4 ballet dancers of the main roles also died. A window was broken 500 meters from us, and the buildings where I was on the same day also suffered. And any blow or even the work of air defense can be heard loudly throughout the city, and most often at night. Other cities were simply wiped off the face of the Earth by whole blocks and districts. When the dam was blown up, several large reserves with all the animals were destroyed, including all three branches of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, which will soon be 100 years old.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Nihonjoe Hello! Have you watched the judo tournament at the Olympics? If the answer is yes, how do you like refereeing
Hello, I disagree that Myself in the Distant Future is a science fiction film; a 'utopian' setting does not equal a science fiction. Gorden 2211 ( talk) 09:52, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
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Here you just replaced the references to reliable sources with references to unreliable sources, that is, to a user-generated slide presentation
[6] and some local blog article written by an anonymous person
[7]. And I see you are making mass-changes of "Russian Jewish" to "Ukrainian Jewish" on a bunch of article, again with unreliable sources or with no sources. You have 9,000 edits, you should know that this is not acceptable. If you continue this will go to the administrators' noticeboard.
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Mellk Hello! You have not looked carefully at the page history. It was I who returned the old version of the articles, because this anonymous user, who is probably a Russian chauvinist, massively changed from Ukrainian Jew or Belarusian Jew to Russian Jew. All the mentioned persons have their roots in Ukraine or Belarus and the cities of origin of them or their ancestors have nothing to do with Russia.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:23, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Mellk This user wrote that he reverted the editing of a blocked user. All the more, you are not interested in the essence, her ancestors are not from Russia but from Ukraine, because Kharkiv has always been a Ukrainian city and even in the days of the Russian Empire it was the center of the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate, later Kharkiv became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:41, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Linuxator, MelnykSerg, & Sanya3 Hello! I would like to hear your opinion as well.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:41, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Linuxator Hello! You have given a very excellent example and I also agree with many other points you have made, but unfortunately, the other side is advancing opposite opinions. You can look at the discussion in the same section. Although there may be debates over the use of the term occupation in relation to that period, because such a term deprives us of a number of other arguments. For example, according to the constitution, the Ukrainian SSR was an independent state, and later became a founding member of the United Nations. In addition, during the entire existence of the Ukrainian SSR there were 2 concepts - citizen of the Ukrainian SSR and citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1918 to 1931 and from 1990 to 1991 they had international use, and in the period 1918-1923 the citizenship of the USSR did not exist at all, instead there was citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR, although at least during a part of it, citizenship of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian State also existed, and all of them had their own peculiarities of granting and depriving. And from 1923 to 1931, residents of the Ukrainian SSR were simultaneously considered citizens of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR at the international level and during foreign trips, in addition, the national team of the Ukrainian SSR took part in international matches, and the Ukrainian SSR itself established international relations with other countries, for example, with Turkey. Ukrainian films were presented abroad precisely as films of the Ukrainian SSR, not as films of the USSR, etc. And only since 1931, the citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR retained only local significance, and the passport of the USSR had only significance in the international arena. And so it was until 1990, the year of the new legislation on the citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR. By the way, Mikheil Saakashvili took part in the Referendum that decided the fate of Ukraine in 1991. But then he went to Georgia and even forgot that he was a citizen of the Ukrainian SSR. Although, on the basis of this, it would be much easier for him to regain Ukrainian citizenship, as well as to deprive him of it. It is a pity, but the fact of the history of Ukrainian SSR citizenship is rarely taken into account in the identity cards, as if it did not exist.
Taking into account all of the above, the issue of officially recognizing the occupation has both pluses and significant minuses. Although, of course, no one disputes that the reformation of the Ukrainian People's Republic into the Ukrainian SSR was forced, not voluntary, for a significant, if not most, part of the republic's citizens. Nevertheless, it is more appropriate to consider Ukraine as the legal successor of both the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR, although the existence of Ukraine as part of the USSR from 1932 to the end of the 1980s was undoubtedly a period of occupation, although in earlier years the majority of the population considered this entity an independent country, and the leadership of the republic blackmailed the leadership of the USSR by withdrawing from the federation. We know what happened in the 1930s to change these ideas and efforts.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
See Also this article.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Did you see somewhere that I called you to this page? Why are you interfering in a discussion with another user? I clearly wrote to you: if you have questions for me about the content of a certain article, write to me from the discussion page of that article and I will decide for myself whether it is appropriate for me to continue the discussion with you there or to ignore your ping.
Also, Linuxator gave you a great example with Gandhi. India was part of the empire for a certain period, but was not part of Britain, similarly, Ukraine was part of the empire for a certain time, but was not part of Russia itself. As for the USSR, the Ukrainian SSR was constitutionally an independent state within the USSR with all the nominal attributes of a state, citizenship and the right to leave the union. And the USSR fell apart not when Russia or any other republic left, but precisely when Ukraine left. This confirms that it is Ukraine that has more rights to legal succession from the USSR. This is how the union with Ukraine with the rights of a protectorate with Moscovia turned this united state into the Russian Empire, because the term Russia was synonymous with the concept of Ukraine and not at all synonymous with the concept of Moscovia until the beginning of the 19th century. However, there is no need for me to write here during these discussions.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:26, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
These are historical facts, and I am not obliged to cite sources here. Regarding the articles, no credible sources were provided by anonymous to change the content of the article. Similarly, the article lacks other such sources. In addition, there is also the concept of falsity of sources, because often certain characteristics are used by persons who are not oriented in the topic or have corrupt involvement. You can cite as many pseudo-sources as you want, that Ukraine sold "Kolchuga" to Iraq or missiles to North Korea or destroyed the Kakhovska dam or sent killer mosquitoes to Russia, but no matter how solid the media spreads misinformation, it will have nothing to do with the truth. And this is the main thing - the truth, not a false source.
See also:
Unfortunately, in that country, the interests of which you so passionately defend, the truth has no weight and almost no one hears the truth and no one wants to know the truth. Everyone who told or tells the truth is killed, put behind bars, repressed or forced to leave, all truthful sources are classified or destroyed. If you like this way of life, live it and you will not force others to fall in love with lies and tell everyone that war is peace or truth is a lie.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:55, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
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I returned the adequate version of the pages, and you return the odious version of the anonymous troll, destroying the veracity of the articles, so it is you who are primarily subject to the rule regarding the editing of so-called controversial articles. However, there is no controversy here, because all adequate people know that Kharkiv, Kyiv or Odesa were and will be Ukrainian cities & the affiliation of these cities to Ukraine is confirmed by a number of UN resolutions, to which empire they were not forcibly included during the historical process. -- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:05, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
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I'm not reverting your edits to the article, but some would probably dispute whether Seven Days in New Crete is a "science fiction novel" in any usual sense. AnonMoos ( talk) 08:33, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Graves's only sf (science fiction) novel, the Utopian Watch the North Wind Rise (1949; vt Seven Days in New Crete 1949) complexly dramatizes some ideas concerning the nature of Poetry and its ideal relation to the world that he had earlier expounded in The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948; rev 1952; further rev 1966)
In the case of consent, I propose the following version of the profile
# [[author]] «[[title]]» ({{lang-en | «Original title», year of first publication}})
For example
and create this page.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Once I got started, I ended up doing 50 after all:
I snuck in "The Dying Earth" at the bottom, since it's really a short-story collection. David Weber is probably the SF author I've read the most of over the last 5 years, but no one single book of his really stands out. Also a little sad that there's no John Brunner book... AnonMoos ( talk) 14:10, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
5 « The Time Machine» 7 « A Case of Conscience» 8 « The Forge of God» 9 « Fahrenheit 451» - other my highest places.
Thanks again for the list and answers. Good by, because I do not want to distract you from something more important.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:26, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
I actually read Heinlein's, "If This Goes On--", "Sixth Column", "Space Cadet", "Time for the Stars", "Citizen of the Galaxy", "Podkayne of Mars", part of "Starman Jones", and part of "Orphans of the Sky", mainly back when I was in my teens and twenties. I kind of liked "Time for the Stars" and "Citizen of the Galaxy" (I was impressed by the use of anthropology concepts in Citizen of the Galaxy"), but I have no desire to read any new Heinlein novels at this point, especially those from his later period... "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" as a book is a collection of unrelated short stories (it includes one of my favorite short stories "—And He Built a Crooked House—", but is not eligible for a novel list).
I've discovered that of the 43 unique authors on my revised list, there seem to be en.Wikipedia articles on 40 of them -- all except Bill Adams, Cecil Brooks, and Isabel Cooper. I'm thinking of starting an article on Isabel Cooper...
Also, I analyzed my list by assigning 50 points to the author of the first entry on the list, 49 points to the author of second entry, and so on, down to 1 point for the author of the last entry on the list. Where a book had two authors, I divided its points equally between the two. The results are interesting (at least to me) -- Bujold and Norton rise far above the others, while Pournelle has distinctly the fewest points out of all the authors with multiple books on the list:
109 Lois McMaster Bujold 98 Andre Norton 66 Eric Flint 62 C.S. Lewis 59 Ursula K. Le Guin 52 Arthur C. Clarke 50 J.R.R. Tolkien 47 Cordwainer Smith 46 John Barnes 45 Frank Herbert 41.5 Jerry Pournelle 40 Isaac Asimov 39 Lord Dunsany
(No other author got more than 35 points.) It doesn't entirely agree with what I think of as my favorite authors, but provides an alternate perspective... AnonMoos ( talk) 17:11, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:48, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos Have you seen the changes in the list?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Yasnodark -- I guess "Lord of the Rings" being at the top of the list is kind of predictable. Even when there are some of the same authors on this list and my list, often very different works are preferred -- "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Childhood's End" are really not my favorite Arthur C. Clarke books, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is one of the Narnia books that I like the least (it was the first that C.S. Lewis wrote, and he was still kind of figuring things out), and while I was impressed by "The Left Hand of Darkness", it wouldn't be my top Ursula K. Le Guin pick (and I've kind of tired of the Earthsea series). If I included any Zelazny, it would be "Doorways in the Sand", not "Nine Princes in Amber"...
I've read Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" and Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince", but I didn't think of including them on my list for the same reason I didn't think of including Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland": too many fairy-tale/nursery-rhyme elements, and too little overall coherent plot. I read the first half or so of Zamyatin's "We" («Мы»), but I couldn't really get through it. Aelita is known among science-fiction film buffs as an early Soviet SF movie, but probably few in the West have seen the movie or read the book. I wonder what the heck "Человек-амфибия" is about -- does it have a premise similar to Kobo Abe's " Inter Ice Age 4"??
It seems slightly odd to me that no books published in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series (which had a big influence on me in my teen years) are included in the master list...
Unless I'm missing something with one of the Cyrillic-alphabet entries that I know nothing about, it seems that the top-ranked book written by a woman in this overall list is number 39 ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire") -- rather different from my list. Also, "Fundation" should be "Foundation"... AnonMoos ( talk) 15:03, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos I strongly advise you to read an extremely interesting May series, to get the best impression read best in the following order:
The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson - also advise you to read.
Thank you for noticing my typos. As you can see from me, the "Macroscope" also flew out of the top 50, it is still a pity but I do not know what to exclude, it is also insulting for Silverberg and Anderson, but there are only 50 places. I would exclude Susanne Clark, but I have included so few fantasy novels. I liked Douglas Adams and Wells less, but I included them through the humor of the first and the scale of the thoughts of the second.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
I have no problem reading books that I've already read, or written by authors that I know well, in electronic form. I don't usually like to read works by unknown authors in electronic form.
If I can add one of those supplemental lists of books which didn't quite make my main list, it would include:
(Again, I snuck in a short story collection at the bottom.)
There's a higher proportion of "guilty pleasures" than there were on my main list above...
I was also struck by how many pre-WWI entries there were on the overall averaged list. I wonder if that's for reasons similar to the "Jack London" syndrome -- Jack London was the favorite American author of many in the Soviet Union because he was one of the few American authors translated and published in the Soviet Union. Most of the pre-1914 books on the list are classics, though -- with the conspicuous exception of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", which is a very heavy-handed and sometimes just plain dumb satire of the High Middle ages (which occurred well over 500 years after Arthur's time, by the way). If I were going to include anything vaguely science-fictional by Mark Twain, it would be "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven". I haven't read "The Picture of Dorian Gray", but it seems to be pretty much "mainstream" literature with just one symbolic element of "magical realism". I've apparently only read Jules Verne books in old bad English translations which are sometimes not too faithful to the original... AnonMoos ( talk) 08:34, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
By the way, I wonder how much you say about our President Zelensky and what exactly?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:42, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos Silverberg’s novel "Hawksbill Station" was on my preliminary list, but I deleted it, because although I was sure that I read it, I didn’t see it on my list. Given that I read a lot of his novels then, I could forget to write it down or mistakenly decided that I read it. In any case, its contents have been erased from memory. My final list of 1968 is above the list of 111 novels and it is not there.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:26, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos I would like to move a little away from the annual lists and suggest one more idea. I see that you have read a lot of Andre Norton's novels and they rank high on individual lists. I have more than half of her books but have not read a single one yet due to a number of reasons, including one unflattering review. So I would like you to rate her novels like the general top 50 and you list her best novels from best to least successful. I want to have a guideline for the future. 50 points - first place, and so on until 50th, if you have one or the lowest. And I, in turn, will distribute my favorite author - Robert Heinlein. Then let's compare what happens as a result.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:37, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
OK, here's a list of 24 Andre Norton speculative fiction novels that I like, and a list of 4 that I dislike. Some of her early works were later released in revised form from the 1990s on; I'm not really a fan of the later versions, and am ignoring them here (of the books on my "like" list, at least "The Time Traders" was later revised). I'm including "Perilous Dreams", though it has a kind of complicated history -- two novellas (written in different years), joined together into a short novel, and accompanied by two short stories set in the same world... AnonMoos ( talk) 11:58, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Andre Norton "like" list:
Andre Norton "dislike" list:
AnonMoos thank you ! I forgot to give you the link http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?209 , can something else help remember.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Robert A. Heinlein my "like" list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Heinlein wrote less than 50 (his 40 novels & novellas have 100 or more pages), but it was from him that I read most of the speculative science fiction novels, I probably read 29, at least I did not remember more. The bottom 3 I could send to the dislike list, but their quality is still better than many novels by other authors. At the same time, I read novels at different times and this leaves an imprint.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoosThanks for the comment. Have you remembered any other Norton novels you read? I forgot to give you the link http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?209 , can something else help remember.
Fixed inaccuracies in Heinlein's list. I advise you to read at least the first 14 points of my preference list. By the way, what are you reading now and reading during quarantine?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
If you like the next five for the second month:
all the novels are different and not similar to each other.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
I would like to add that no person under the age of 66 or over the age of 85 has received a title so far. The literary experience of the winners ranged from 34 (Bujold) to 61 (Beagle) years. Gibson and Bujold, 70, have been getting younger for the past two years, so it's likely to be an older person this year and more likely a man, because last year it was a woman. All authors are English-speaking, but very rarely British and Canadian. Only two - Bester and Beagle - wrote less than 1,111,111 words of speculative fiction.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
These are my preliminary lists, then I will add and rearrange.
I'm rooting for prolific oldies. This letter is helpful
I don't really closely follow such awards. I think it would be nice if David Weber were recognized, but I wouldn't be disappointed if he wasn't. I'm a little curious as to the presence of Suzy McKee Charnas on your list -- she writes some powerful books, but has a rather specialized talent. The only Christopher Priest book I read ("The Inverted World") came close to giving me nightmares (I have absolutely no desire to ever read it again). AnonMoos ( talk) 00:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
I haven't read her books, but it's not that important. I have read other masters and know about the merits of authors I have not read. And I know that she could not write better than them. But even if she would write at the same level, she definitely wrote several times less (only 13 books!?!), Has little literary experience in speculative fiction (24 years !!!) and is young enough (60 years !!!) , that is, because of such dubious awards, many worthy people simply will not survive. John Brunner was 61 years old in the year of his death, he never got the title, and by that time he had written about 70 books, of which more than 20 were super-outstanding and had 44 years of experience in speculative fiction to compare with this upstart. Octavia Butler had 35 years of experience, wrote 15 books and was terminally ill, but at the 59th year of her life she was also not announced a Grandmaster, and who, no matter how worthy she was. Kate Wilhelm lived to be 90 years old, wrote dozens of books over 60 years, but received only a fake "Solstice". Robert Sheckley was given the second class prize - Emeritus. John Christopher, Thomas Disch and Roger Zelazny never got it. Dixon, Herbert and Bradley were also out of luck.
I am incredibly angry because their fate awaits other worthy authors who have written dozens of high-level books over the decades. Ben Bova is 88 years old. He has written about 90 books of quality fiction and is still actively writing for the past 61 years. Even better books are from Card and the magnificent B-Four - Beer (53 years of experience), Benford (55 years of experience), Bishop (50 years of experience) and Brin (40 years of experience), and they are more than 70 years old, Benford in a month - 80 years old and his twin brother died, that is, how long he does not know. They all wrote 2-6 times more. And there are simply legends of popularity King and Martin, more than 90 books were written by Foster. There are also 77-year-old Englishmen Priest and Watson. Then there's Spinrad and Malzberg, who have been writing since the 1960s. There is Vinge and Simmons. More than 100 books were written by Pierce Anthony and they are all still writing ... Among women, Yarbro has been writing for over 50 years and has almost the same number of books. For many years, Gwyneth Jones and Nancy Kress have written with quality. But Hopkinson? For what?
Ten years ago I predicted the title of 2010 and my forecast still worked: out of the top eight applicants, in my opinion, 5 received the title and 2 more died, Bova remained. All the other Grandmasters were also on my list, but who knew 10 years ago about Hopkinson and who could consider her a contender. Even now I did not even think to include her in the list for 2021, according to all the laws, she had 0 chances. It is very sad that such an inadequate decision was made by Mary Robinette Kowal, the first SFWA President with Ukrainian roots.
And you have no way to duplicate my comment here Except for the phrase in the first paragraph "Apparently because she is a black lesbian woman from Jamaica and Canada (do not be offended if you or your relatives or friends are African-American or LGBT"?
But all this does not interfere with predicting the winner of 2022.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:53, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure who you're referring to. I'm sure that many of those who were overlooked have many merits, but I don't think that Piers Anthony deserves any awards (except for sheer volume). AnonMoos ( talk) 00:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
other non-included:
other non-included:
you read only 2 novels in full and one in part? You have lost a lot because the year is very good? Yasnodark ( talk) 14:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
just Latin “H” = Cyrillic “G” is the Ukrainian approach https://argo-unf-in.at.ua/load/anglo_amerikanska_fantastika/ellison_garlan/47 , and in Russian it is “X”, although many I do not fully agree with this, because with regard to English surnames it is more often more correct than “X” in contrast to American ones. 1968 is my favorite year in speculative fiction and the hardest thing was to choose the best and put them in their places, and I have a full set of 10 high-quality novels there, so I decided to start with it, but even if you have memories of this year’s books are more vague, nevertheless, I would ask you to arrange in approximate order the novels you have read in their places. Laumer meets the criteria http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?199517 .-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos That article on Ukrainian Wikipedia is devoted only to science fiction, not speculative fiction, so Le Guin’s novel and other pure fantasy novels are not there. If you wish, changes to your list are possible, so you can include Zelazny’s novel. But still I would like you to create ranked lists by year, for the beginning of 1968-1970. Thus embrace both your and my favorite years. -- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:45, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Simak’s novel can be read here, in addition, in the history you can find other links to other "my" best 1968 novels.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:45, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
OK, I've compromised and produced a list of my top 8 favorite books first published in 1968. If I made my list any longer, it would be because I remembered a book better than I remembered some others, not because I liked the book better than I did the others... Note that the second half of "Norstrilia" was published in 1968 (the first half was published in 1964), but I can only judge the book as a whole (the form in which I've always encountered it, and in which it's been reprinted ever since 1975). "Swords Against Wizardry" is also a collection of some material first published in 1968 and other material previously published in magazines before 1968. If "The Tombs of Atuan" had been published in 1968, it would have probably made the list, but "A Wizard of Earthsea" didn't... AnonMoos ( talk) 15:42, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! I recently noticed your first lists over the years and especially the 1968 list. And I saw that you then made too strict and very strict selection from what you read. You have left blank positions in 1 and 2 points. I think that among the novels you do not include, there are those that deserve at least such a low score as 1-2 points. After all, you do not need to put 8 or 10 points, because they are not the best in your opinion. However, to say that the novels of P.K. Dick, Peter S. Beagle, John Christopher, Alexei Panshin, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg or Larry Niven, according to critics ormy opinion, are so bad that they are not included in completely empty positions - is too much. After all, you can't say for sure that these novels are not the best of the unincorporated. Even if you read all the other unincorporated novels from this year that you haven't read yet. And if it is different and you then read something better, you can always replace them, that's my logic.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:43, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by P.K. Dick, "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle, "Hawksbill Station" a.k.a "The Anvil of Time" by Robert Silverberg, "The Pool of Fire" by John Christopher, "A Gift From Earth" by Larry Niven, "Assignment in Nowhere" by Keith Laumer, and part of "The Key to Venudine" by Kenneth Bulmer, "Rite of Passage" by Alexei Panshin, "Past Master" by R.A. Lafferty, "Shellbreak" by J. W. Groves, and "Sos the Rope" by Piers Anthony.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
I don't really remember "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" well enough to rate it (I read it once in the first half of the 1980s). My memory of "The Pool of Fire" has also faded (though I probably read that one in the 1990s). "Hawksbill Station" a.k.a "The Anvil of Time" and "A Gift From Earth" are rather minor novels from well-known authors. "Assignment in Nowhere" has too much fairy-tale influence -- I only like fairy-tale elements when done in certain ways, and even when I do like a book with fairy-tale influences, I sometimes might not consider it to fall under what would I consider to be "speculative fiction". For "The Last Unicorn", see comment of "05:58, 19 July 2020" above (plus also fairy-tale elements). I can enjoy fairy tales for what they are, but in my opinion there's a limited useful overlap between fairy tales and speculative fiction -- this may be part of why I included "The Charwoman's Shadow" by Lord Dunsany on my top-50 list, though most people seem to like "The King of Elfland's Daughter" more... AnonMoos ( talk) 17:24, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Among the novels of 1968 and 1969, I consider all the novels included deservedly, but some of the novels of 1969 (1-3 balls) I will not be sorry to exclude. It was also with Niven's novel "A Gift From Earth", but now it will be more difficult with 1968 year. And I think it is illogical to leave empty positions, but the choice is yours. Doesn't Le Guin's “A Wizard of Earthsea” or "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" deserve 2 points?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:30, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
other non-included:
Interesting to see your choice
From here you can choose novels
1969 speculative fiction
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1969 .--
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AnonMoos Hello! At that moment, I made a mistake by putting 11 points, the first place is rated at 12 points, the second - 10 points, the third - 8, and further 7-1 points, so you got that one book is superfluous, considering that containing in Moore's book was first published in the 1930s, which is why it is superfluous in the 1969 year
Interesting to see your choice. From here you can choose novels
Interesting to see your choice. From here you can choose novels
Yasnodark -- Interesting that Franz Werfel's "Star of the Unborn" only has articles on the German and Ukrainian Wikipedias ( uk:Зірка ненароджених)... AnonMoos ( talk) 00:00, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
By the way, I analyzed the dates of the 67 books on my main and supplemental lists (ignoring the two crossed-out items); I followed my method explained above of listing books which were substantially revised from their original publication under their date of revised publication, and listing those which were originally published in parts according to the year of the last-published component volume. (However, I listed "Kajira of Gor" under 1983, since in this case I read the original edition years before I ever saw the revised edition.) The earliest year was 1920 and the latest year was 2011 (a range of 92 years), but 41 out of the 67 items were published during the years 1949-1980 (a range of 32 years), so 61% were published in this slightly extended 1950s-1970s period (35% of the overall year range). There are no books at all from the 1930s. There wasn't a year where more books on my lists were published than any other single year, but if I added up all the years and divided by 67, the average publication date was "1972.21" (September 1972), while the median year (in which 33 items were published beforehand and 33 items were published afterwards) was also 1972. So I guess you could kind of say that 1972 was my peak science-fiction year, though only two of the books on my lists were published in that year ("An Alien Heat" by Michael Moorcock and "The Gods Themselves" by Isaac Asimov)... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:39, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
I didn't want to unravel 1965 until I read Herbert's novel, because I wanted to start with the prequels of Anderson and his son, and I don't have 2 books and I don't know the chronology of the others, but apparently I'll have to, I read 3 more books this year, including number Aldiss on your recommendation, so I'll make my list.
But I’m not yet sure of my arrangement of some novels.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Search here
next year 1963 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1963 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I couldn't find a lot of books to include on my 1963 list. In some other years, "Judgment on Janus" would have been the only book among those below which I like enough to include on a year-list, but I didn't want to have a top-10 list with only one entry! I didn't include "Captives of the Flame", since this was substantially revised as part of the "Fall of the Towers" (see 1966 -- and I haven't read "Captives of the Flame" in its original unrevised form). "Podkayne of Mars" kind of turned me against Heinlein novels (as mentioned above)... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:51, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello!
next year 1962 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1962
my 1962 list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:12, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I include James Blish's "Cities in Flight" under 1962, since this was the publication date of the last of its four component novels (though they were not all published together in a single volume until later):
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AnonMoos Helloo! I disagree but so far returned-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Regarding James Blish's "Cities in Flight" tetralogy, I think that individual novels should be named in separate years, so the book should be excluded, but the last novel "A Life for the Stars" can be included.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:55, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
I don't want to rate the individual sub-novels of "Cities in Flight" -- and the same applies to the component volumes of the "Illuminatus!" trilogy, "The Fall of the Towers", and "Norstrilia". I might make an exception for "The Lord of the Rings"...
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AnonMoos You mentioned Kobo Abe's novel "The Woman in the Dunes" http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3647 and something didn't include it in 1962 list-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:48, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1970 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:21, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
I wouldn't include "Watership Down" in my 1972 list (and definitely not in the No. 1 position). You could say that it's well done for what it is, but I wasn't really able to buy in to epic, dramatic, tragic villain and hero characters who were also twitchy-nosed long-eared fluffy rabits. I later tried to read his "Shardik", but only got about halfway through that... AnonMoos ( talk) 14:07, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! It seems to me that you are wrong that you did not include "Watership Down" in your list, is itn`t worthy of at least 2 points in your opinion. In my opinion, Narnian novels are weaker than it.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:14, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
The original Swedish version of "King Kong Blues" was apparently published in 1974, but the English translation I read was published in 1975. AnonMoos ( talk) 20:49, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
Therefore, include in 1974 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:21, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:08, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
1976:
The first novella of "Perilous Dreams" was published in 1969, but the novel as a whole (plus the two short stories) in 1976. I don't usually like to change my lists (unless perhaps to add a forgotten item to the end -- or replace the item at the end, if I already have ten), but an issue I discovered going back through the mid-1970s is that I left "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman off my 1974 list, because it was shown as a short-story collection, not a novel. However, it's almost certainly eligible... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos This is the rare case when you and I don't have any correspondence and I haven't read any of your novels, moreover, I don't have 4 novels from your list at home at all. -- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Next year - 1958 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1958
my 1958 list:
Next year - 1957
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1957
Here's my 1957 list, but I reserve the right to revise it if I see items on your list which I should have included. I was going to include "This Fortress World" by James E. Gunn (one of my teen favorites), but apparently this was first published in 1955, and only reprinted as an Ace Double in 1957.... AnonMoos ( talk) 18:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
my 1957 list:
we will mention in 1956 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?112995 , so I took it off your list.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos When changes are made, there are occasional mentions, awards have been awarded multiple times for ongoing novels in magazines, so we focus on the end of the first publication. Another thing is that it is not entirely clear what to do when the book was published as separate stories and short stories, later combined under one cover. In this case, I don't know what decision to make .. But here everything is clear: a novel divided into three parts, and not three novellas collected in one novel later.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:59, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello!I wanted to ask you, did you find time to finish reading Heinlein's novel and understand the author's intention as a whole?
Also curious, what new things have you read in recent years besides the Weber series?
We also found an interesting link for you with a classic Ukrainian fiction novel in English https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Vladko/Descendants_of_the_Scythians_anhl/ , maybe you will try it for yourself?
And the last thing: from certain American films, one gets the impression that libraries in the USA work almost 24 hours a day: is this true or false, what are the working hours of libraries in Austin and other cities in the USA and other countries you have visited? At least for Texas, I think it will be easy for you to answer.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:53, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Thanks for the first answer. As for the second one, lately I've been reading half of my books this way, but I've noticed with regret that I don't have many small books for reading at stops, the plus is that they are mostly good old classics of hard science fiction, which I love no less than social or philosophical soft fiction. I definitely wouldn't classify Heinlein's novel Door to Summer in the first category of "techno-oriented American SF", and the novel is quite original for its time and in general, but you should read it to the end to understand its purpose. 3 pages at a stop per day is not so difficult. Yes, and in general, about half of Heinlein's novels definitely cannot be classified as "techno-oriented American SF", at the same time, when reading at bus stops, I mostly read just such books, although "The Threshold" by Ursula Le Guin was completely different. And the Flynn novel I mentioned above is definitely not like that, although its size is not for reading on the go.
Now I'm just finishing reading Clement's novel "Mission of Gravity" translated by Strugatsky, a wonderful novel, however, the author is not very friendly with the measures and dimensions he uses in the novel, often forgetting what he wrote before, it's strange how drunk the editor was when he proofread novel But otherwise a great novel.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:49, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
I haven't read much fantasy, but I'm trying to build my non-technical fiction recommendation letter from what you haven't read.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:49, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1956 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1956
My !star! 1956 list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZAw8qxn0ZE
I changed 1st and 2nd places several times and I still don't know if mine is correct choice.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:12, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
On the negative side of 1956, Bridey Murphy (appearing in the title of two entries on the ISFDB year list) was worthless gibberish which for some reason became a fad in the United States of the 1950s. On the positive side, I didn't know that "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot" (a semi-famous series of very bad puns) went as far back as 1956...
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AnonMoos Hello! next year 1955 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1955 You probably didn't notice this message?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:08, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
my 1955 list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Thank you for your list, just in this case the "Lord of the Rings" is a divided novel (by the editor's decision), and Blish's "Cities in flight" - several novels later combined under one cover and International Fantasy Award http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?24+1957 was awarded for the novel "Lord of the Rings", but this does not prohibit 1954 to consider the first 2 parts as separate novels, I just do not see the point in 1955 to consider "The Return of the King" separately . In addition, it is difficult with those books that were combined under one cover much later. In general, everything is complicated-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:35, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos It still seems to me that it is wrong that you did not appreciate "Fahrenheit 451", because you probably remember the plot as a whole.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:30, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
My 1953 list:
My 1951 list:
The publication of the first Asimov "Foundation" novel in book form first happened in 1951, as also "The Weapon Shops of Isher" by A. E. van Vogt -- though the original short stories of which they were composed were published earlier. I would be curious what year you would classify these under (and also "The Tritonian Ring" by L. Sprague de Camp and "Gray Lensman" by E.E. Doc Smith)... AnonMoos ( talk) 01:25, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
I added whichever ones I wanted. "The Stars, Like Dust" is my least favorite early Asimov novel (its final plot twist is like that of a bad Star Trek original series episode...). AnonMoos ( talk) 00:17, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Why didn't you include "The Stars, Like Dust" in the 1951 list then? You are too selective in your lists. Don't just include the worst and bad novels.
"Foundation" had to be included here because it was in 1951 that the book was first published as a novel. And without the permission of the author. Although because of this logic, the previous 1940s suffer a lot. The first 3 books fit the others I will check-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:37, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos I misinterpreted your phrase. Translation difficulties. Although I do not consider the novel ("The Stars, Like Dust") bad, although I remember it badly. So I put it at the bottom of the list-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
With van Vogt everything is difficult and always, but the story is the same as with "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov Yasnodark ( talk) 14:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1952 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1952
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:40, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
I've read some Bester and Kornbluth & Pohl, but not those. I'm happy to include "Foundation and Empire", but ISFDB lists it as a "collection" (not a "novel") and its component stories were published in 1945... AnonMoos ( talk) 19:50, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I thought for a long time about how to determine the year of creation of a novel, and I decided that at the moment, a novel that was published in the form of a serial is exactly how a novel is put in the year of creation, because such novels are included in the lists of award nominations in the "novel" category, and cycles of works will later be united under one cover as a novel later, we count in the year of unification into one book. At the same time, this book by Asimov was a combination not of short stories, but of the early 1945 novel "The Mule" https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41123 and one short story of 1944 and 1 novel from 1945. That is why we will include the novel "The Mule" in 1945 year list. Yasnodark ( talk) 13:13, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1989 * http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1989 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:23, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
my 1989 list
On the account of the final arrangement I still have doubts, but you will probably be surprised by my last position of Simmons's novel «Hyperion», the novel is good, but the worst of the 4 books of seria and in my opinion worse than the 9 books I put above.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:04, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! It very often happens that I have been reading good books for years, and only recently I removed a good second book by Bujold from the top 10 because of reading Asimov's novel "Nemesis", and now I will have to remove the award-winning "Hyperion" from the top ten, because I liked Wilson's book more. Although I still have doubts about the arrangement of all 12 books, because none of them are bad. Even the thirteenth cannot be called bad, although it belongs to the series.
There was an offer. Both you and I have had a number of overbooked years, so I suggest we stick to the 12-point system and remove the gaps, then we'll have a maximum of 12 novels for the year, and that will allow for two more non-included novels to be rated in some overbooked years. Do you agree with the addition? Then I will change the points and you will complete the lists where possible...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:19, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1987 * http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1987 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:23, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
my 1987 list
my 1986 list
This was the first time that I had much more than 10 entries to choose from (there were 18 books published in 1986 that I could have included). I left out "Ethan of Athos" so that Lois McMaster Bujold wouldn't crowd other authors off of the list. I've never read anything in Vernor Vinge's "Peace War" or bobble series except "The Ungoverned", and I've concluded that it was a mistake for Isaac Asimov to tie together his originally separate Foundation series and Robot series...
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Here are my other 1986 books:
AnonMoos Can you put the missing Lem novel from the 1986 extra list somewhere else because I put it roughly?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! "Black Star Rising" -> 1985
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pohl_frederik
So please replace it--
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"Black Star Rising" by Fred Pohl
AnonMoos Hello! I am interested to know which novels you have excluded?
my 1984 list
non-included novels:
AnonMoos Somehow it turns out that I often read books from 1969 or 1984, although the lists are already full - there are 10 good novels
AnonMoos Hello! I'm glad you're all right. I would like to see your choice of 1984 Yasnodark ( talk) 12:50, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
For years, I've basically only re-read the last third of "The Practice Effect", and "Circumpolar" is a very silly book which I haven't read for a long time, but I still decided to include both of them. (I almost included "The Years of the City" by Fred Pohl, but then realized that I was confusing it with "A Little Knowledge" / "Catacomb Years" by Michael Bishop, and that I've never read "The Years of the City"...) AnonMoos ( talk) 22:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
By the way, I don't usually like to change my lists once I've compiled them, but when I was making my 1969 list, I didn't realize that a substantially revised text of "Avengers of Carrig" (the version I'm familiar with) was first published in 1969. So substitute it for "Decision at Doona" as follows: AnonMoos ( talk) 22:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
I finally finished reading Varley's book "The Demon" and despite the fact that I tormented her for a long time in parallel with 10 other books, I decided to move it up, I also decided to raise Pohl's original book up, although I was dissatisfied with many. I read Luopoff's novel relatively recently, I don't think it is bad, but it didn't have enough zest. Therefore, after you, he pushed her down.
You included Lupoff's novel, but in 1968 and 1969 you decided not to include the much brighter novels Macroscope and The Last Unicorn, can you change your mind and put them at the bottom of their years for objectivity?
Of your novels, I only have Niven's at home. By the way, you have one more place.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:07, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
I made a mistake and didn't notice that you and I named different Lupoff novels. I also confused about the "Macroscope"-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1980 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1980
my 1980 list
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
My list:
"Sundiver" is not one of my favorite David Brin books (it was his very first in the Uplift series, maybe before he fully developed that universe), and I liked the John Varley "Titan" books at the time, but have soured on them a little over the years (haven't re-read them in a long time). I'm not sure I want to rank the Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's" books separately (as opposed to the series as a whole). "The Probability Broach" is an ultra-libertarian alternative history of the U.S., notorious among some fans (never read it). I didn't include Eco's "The Name of the Rose", though it's listed at ISFDB. AnonMoos ( talk) 20:48, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1989 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1982--
Yasnodark (
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my 1982 list
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
My 1982 list (I assume you meant 1982, not 1989):
I read a number of other books published in 1982, but my memories of them are very vague and/or I don't want to rank them. I don't think that Asimov should have tried to link his Foundation series and his Robots stories together, and I still don't really want to rank the books of the Hitchhiker's original trilogy separately... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:13, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! Next year - 1985 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1985
my 1985 list
1985:
Non-included novels:
"Trumps of Doom" didn't quite make my top 10. Dayworld is another series which quickly goes downhill, but the first book is kind of fun. I read the original short story of "Ender's Game", but never read the full novel. I always wanted to read several books published in this year, such as "Starquake" and "Handmaid's Tale" and maybe "Contact", but I never did so... AnonMoos ( talk) 17:03, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I didn't remember Pohl's novel well, that's why it's so low, because the impression wasn't too bright. I don't have this Le Guin novel. I have 3 novels - "Eon" & "Schismatrix"- they are lying on nearby shelves, but I haven't gotten to them yet, although I have plans, "Dayworld" is more difficult to get, although the desire to read it is slightly greater.
I saw the film, but I haven't read the novel "Contact", I bought it shortly before I was in Kyiv in early 2000-th, where it was, the edition is old and no longer published in Russian & not translated into Ukrainian. A few days ago I asked about him in the library, but apparently he was not in this one or he was already written off because he is not there. I wanted to read it, because finally the wonderful impression of the film has subsided and you can start the novel without remembering the details of the plot.
The other novels you mentioned weren`t published in the post-Soviet space. The only exception is "Handmaid's Tale", but I'm not sure that I want to take it to the library, although there are similar thoughts.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Then I would ask you to create this list of books that didn't make the top 10.
I have really never heard anything about this book or even about its author before, although I know the titles of most of the English-language books translated not only into Ukrainian, but also into Russian and Belarusian, and I have previously seen a list of books of speculative fiction published in Estonian and By the way, your 1974 favorite book "Star Rider" by Piserchia was translated only into this language unknown to me, but not into East Slavic languages that I can understand for fiction reading. I also saw separate lists of books translated into Bulgarian and Polish. And a number of encyclopedias and databases of authors, and nowhere and never have I come across the name of Jane Palmer. Yasnodark ( talk) 11:57, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
I haven't seen the publication of The Great King's War, but I think you need to adjust your wish list a bit. For example, I am grateful to you for suggesting the Weber series and some other books that I enjoyed reading, although I did not plan to do so in the coming years. Therefore, please think whether you should also follow my path.
As for your wishes to read, I would still ask you to try to read something from my list of favorite Heinlein books, because I see that our tastes are very similar in many ways.
Because you, speaking objectively, have chosen, to put it mildly, not the best books by Henlein, one of the best science fiction writers in the world. If you read his books in this order, you will not waste time, on the contrary, you will gain impressions. I've linked to the list of publications in the electronic "he Internet Speculative Fiction Database" and to the original texts in the electronic library, so you can at least try to start one of his first seven best novels.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:16, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
https://litlife.club/books/127069/read
Here are my numbers 11 to 16 for 1985:
We've discussed Julian May before. I've read her "Dune Roller" short story, but I very commonly saw her novels in used bookstores in the 1980s and/or 1990s, but didn't get beyond the first few pages in any of them. Now, I rarely come across her books... AnonMoos ( talk) 19:55, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Is
this link I gave not working for you?
Yasnodark (
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I myself like to read paper books more and very rarely read e-books. Although it was in electronic form that I read the largest books, in particular Martin's Dragon Dance and Victory Ashes and 2 more books by Weber, that is, in principle, it is possible even for a non-lover of reading books on a computer, and I believe that we both belong to this type of reader. At least pages 30-50 can be read and oriented. This novel, by the way, is the debut novel of the female writer, awarded for the best debut by several awards, and it has bright female characters.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:13, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos As for Simak's novels, I recently finished one of his later books, "Mastodonia", and perhaps it was she who gave the idea to the Julian May cycle. I will not say that this is his best novel, but it is difficult to find shortcomings in him. I liked the novel you read, but some others I liked better:
I heard from other people that they especially noted:
I consider the worst book I have read Our Children's Children but Simak's worst does not mean bad. Unfortunately, I don’t see other good books by Simak that I read on litlife, and I haven’t read other novels that are there, although I have many.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:13, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Regarding Heinlein, I started reading him with the novel "Orphans of the Sky" and it was this novel that made my transition from adventure and detective prose to speculative fiction, before that I read a lot of fiction, but I rarely realized that I was already reading another genre, but then I read a whole series important things of speculative fiction. I also watched a lot of SF movies, but it was Heinlein, starting with these novels, that made my transition to this genre clear and distinct, simply because the shelves ran out of adventure books, except for a few that I did not want to read at that time. And then I read another 20 of his novels in a row, then I began to read the outstanding fiction writers mentioned in the preface, then I was lucky again and I bought a thick Russian-language Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction, the chief editor of which was a co-author of the English-language Encyclopedia by Clute and Nichols, and I read the works of the best, because then I was accidentally advised the best magazine of speculative fiction of the post-Soviet space, the name of which is translated as "If", which published the best untranslated works of modern speculative fiction and excellent critical articles, including some living authors of that encyclopedia. Unfortunately, libraries stopped subscribing to it after 2014, because magazine was published in the Russian Federation. So I read almost no frankly bad speculative fiction at all, and very little that was even slightly bad, because I knew hundreds of authors worth reading. Therefore, I rarely bought others. Unfortunately, due to such a wide palette of exceptionally high-quality speculative fiction and my reluctance to risk reading something secondary or low-quality, I have read very little Ukrainian or even Russian speculative fiction, although subconsciously I understand that there are many good things and a circle of authors where I could meet them I already know, because of subjective things, I miss good works of Ukrainian speculative fiction. In addition, before, it was always scarce in libraries until recently, and now, due to the great war, our city almost does not finance libraries, and it was almost never found in second-hand bookstores in our city. That's why I know English-language fiction much better than domestic fiction, but I navigate English very well thanks to the path of coincidences that have become an obstacle to a more thorough knowledge of Ukrainian fiction.
However, I didn`t recommend "Orphans of the Sky" to you first, only because you have partly read this work, although it is the one you should start reading Heinlein from, I am glad that you will try The Door to Summer, but it is a less original novel, although it is one of the best. Still, it is better to start with the first published novels "Orphans of the Sky", "Children of Methuselah" or "Waldo", perhaps you should also start a new reading of Heinlein with his late novel "Friday" with a strong female character, although not so fantastic, but rather realized on practice, or Heinlein's most relevant novels for Ukraine now are "Double Star" and "Star Troopers", although at the time of reading the first 20 novels, I liked the last one together with "The Road of Glory" the least, at the same time, I have suspicions that if I were to reread it now , then I am waiting for my opinion to change, but I very rarely do this, and "Orphans of the Sky" is one of the few novels that I reread again. But "Double Star" is a really vivid novel, although its idea was later used repeatedly in films. I would recommend reading "The Door to Summer" as Heinlein's 5-7th novel to read. Although there are also "Star Beast", "Have Space Suit — Will Travel" and "Farmer in the Sky" - probably the best of the space novels for young people, which could have supplanted him if you did not start your acquaintance with Heinlein at this age. However, they are still worth reading. Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
By the way, all the novels of Heinlein that you read earlier, in the mentioned Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction, are either called unsuccessful or not awarded a single word, and the article about Heinlein is one of the largest in it. Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Good luck reading Heinlein and I hope your choice does not overshadow the impression of this author again. I would suggest it to you as number seven, knowing how many books of speculative fiction you have read and how unsuccessful your previous acquaintance with the author was. But this is just excessive caution and you cannot call the book obsolete, and this is its advantage over a number of other novels by Heinlein, which I didn`t name in this paragraph. But all the same, you were not lucky in choosing the books of the Grand Grand Master... If they were worth reading, then they were the last or interspersed with the best novels... But I hope you will see that your prejudice is caused solely by an unfortunate case and coincidence.
I would also recommend reading "Stranger in Strange Land" later, the novel is original strong but difficult to understand, so I would recommend it to the 9-10th, it to the 9-10th, even despite your reading experience. But the novel is very good, although I read it in the 1961 format, that is, one third smaller than the 1991 format. Yasnodark ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos And look at some of the links from those that I have already given you before
As for the encyclopedia of speculative fiction I mentioned, it only has a general description of Heinlein's teenage novels, so really the novel you mentioned is only listed. It should be said that the encyclopedia is really large - more than 700 pages of A4 format in small print with two columns for each, i.e. a total of 1400 columns for 1300 authors, almost 7 columns of the test are allocated to Heinlein (that is, 6.5 times more than the average per author), in the illustrated electronic version and there are even more of them. By the way, the impression about this article described above was formed not only from it, but also from a broader article by the same author, which was the preface to the book "Stranger in a Strange Land". Therefore, some things are not true. However, analyzing the article itself, even 7 stacks on the photo, biography and 50 books of the most influential American fiction author will agree - not so much to pay attention to every novel from the 40s. Although in the multi-volume encyclopedia of Nichols and Clute electronic version an attempt is made to do this, but there too "Citizen Galaxy" is given only the 1st short sentence. I read it second after Orphans of the Sky more than 20 years ago in a somewhat abridged version, and after it I immediately read another dozen or so novels by Heinlein, so my impressions of this novel were somewhat muted and partly confused with another novel, although I definitely liked it, but I now have the full version and may reread it later.
A little more is written about this novel https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/citizen-of-galaxy.htm on the "Fantastic Fiction" portal https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/. I was interested to read what Heinlein's non-fiction book "Tramp Royale" (1992) https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/tramp-royale.htm was about, because it was not translated into Russian, and in general, only "Stranger in Strange Land" and short works are available in Ukrainian. By the way, along with the book reviews, there are links to books that are reviewed together with this one, you may be interested. Heinlein very rarely gave recommendations for reading, and I really liked both of the books I read from his recommendations:
You correctly noted the nuance regarding the difference between the original and the translation, for example, many Russian and Ukrainian translators significantly embellished the text or "improved" it to their taste, especially in the Soviet and first post-Soviet decades. For example, Norton's novel "Sargases in Space" was translated in the same style by the Strugatsky brothers, and the later translator was very surprised by what he thought was a much lower level of style and text in general in the original, I have not yet read any Norton novel, but this information also made a certain shift. However, considering your and not only your attitude towards this woman writer, I suspect that the negativity of that translator towards the original text is greatly distorted by personal vision. Although it was his review in particular that inhibited my acquaintance with your favorite author. I have some of the joint works of May, Norton and Bradley, but have not read them yet.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:24, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
In addition, I recently found an audiobook of one of the founders of SF in Ukraine, Volodymyr Vladko, novel "Argonauts of the Universe", the first version of which dates back to 1935, but despite the quality of the style, there are many elements of Soviet conjuncture, which significantly reduce the desire for further listening. Especially since I perceive texts by ear much worse than on paper. So I can understand your take on the original works, I hadn't thought of that. Because I read mostly fiction in translation. And from classical Ukrainian literature, he read mostly realistic works.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:16, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
I have 2 books by Chad Oliver, but I haven't read any of them yet, although I have such a desire from time to time, unfortunately, every time they are not around and now they are not on the nearest shelves, the author has long since died and is not being filmed now. So while Oliver is not lucky, I have an even greater desire to read one more of his novels, but it is not translated into Ukrainian or Russian and we can hardly expect it. Did you get my list of Piper links elsewhere?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
I think you might find this list of Piper series links:
helpful.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I've gotten through the first 50 pages of "Door Into Summer", and while I'm not really identifying with the inventor protagonist, and not looking forward to his immediately pre-sleep confrontation with Belle and Miles, there aren't some of the problems that I've had with some other Heinlein writings. Also, I was looking at my original list of 50 again recently, and while I don't really want to revise it, I'm wondering now why I ranked Brin's "The Uplift War" so low... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:07, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
By the way, I wonder if "Door Into Summer" influenced some of the plot details of The Perils of Pauline (1967 film) (an intentionally very silly movie which I saw on TV long ago -- I didn't remember that Pat Boone was the leading man!)... AnonMoos ( talk) 19:31, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
I haven't been repulsed by "Door Into Summer", but neither have I been drawn in by it. I can probably finish it off in a concentrated 2 or 3 hour reading session, and I'll try to get to it by the end of the month. In recent days, you asked me about my favorite books of 1998, and "Nimisha's Ship" by Anne McCaffrey was on the list, so I've been re-reading it... -- AnonMoos ( talk) 22:02, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! I wanted to ask you, have you made any progress in reading Heinlein's book?
Next year - 1988 *
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1988
my 1988 list
I ranked "Falling Free" relatively low, since I'm not sure I ever fully read it all the way through (in fact, I suspect I didn't). I read almost half of "The Hormone Jungle" by Robert Reed, then made a very intentional decision not to finish it. For whatever reason, I didn't read "Cyteen" by C. J. Cherryh (though I was aware of it), and this kept me from reading most further novels in her Downbelow universe... I wanted to read "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" (or at least to have read it), but reading "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was a convoluted and not entirely pleasurable experience for me, so that kind of put me off... AnonMoos ( talk) 21:08, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
my 1990 list:
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:15, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
"The Vor Game" is one of my all-time favorites. "The Difference Engine" is one of those books that I want to have read, more than I want to read it... I think I read Farmer's "Dayworld Breakup", but it wasn't that great. I only really like "The Tombs of Atuan" as a whole book among the Earthsea books (though I also like parts of the first book). AnonMoos ( talk) 23:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
The fact is that I would be interested to know the places of mediocre works in the year relative to each other, and you can describe their quality in the comments. Especially since "Nebula" got "Tehanu" as an example, of course - this is an exaggeration of the level, but it is definitely not the level of the work that should be included. Ditto with serialized novels, which you often don't include due to hazy memories of the content of specific books. Yasnodark ( talk) 15:33, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
my 1991 list:
AnonMoos And I really liked all 4 first books of the series with Clarke, Lee's solo books about Rama are unfortunately not in translation. For me, a difficult dilemma was which of the first 3 books to choose and "Barrayar" was the second, and «The Garden of Rama» the third rather intuitively and largely by accident.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:54, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
At the same time, I hear about authors such as Bill Adams and Cecil Brooks for the first time.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:54, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos hello! I don't have much more novels on my list this year than you.
I'm surprised Bova's novel is so low on the isfdb list. Very good book.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:22, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
It is often difficult to put books in place, but this time it was especially difficult, I changed the places of the first 7 novels many times and maybe I will change them many times, because these 7 books are all equally good, but none of them can be called superb or brilliant. The first 7 positions are extremely conditional and this conditionality significantly exceeds the usual level of this indicator in my lists of other years.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:10, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos my mayby new best 1993 speculative fiction novel: John Whitbourn «Popes and Phantoms» https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?14007 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:43, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos hello Yasnodark ( talk) 13:14, 17 August 2020 (UTC) Next year - 1996 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/most_reviewed.cgi?year+1996
my 1996 list:
In Enemy Hands - go to 1997 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5763 Yasnodark ( talk) 12:49, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
AnonMoos my 1999 list:
My list:
I probably didn't read all that many books published in 1999. I tried to read "Flashforward" (which was the basis for a short-lived TV series), "Prisoner of Azkaban", and Weber's "The Apocalypse Troll", but I didn't get too far in any of them... I did read "Finity" by Barnes, but my memory of it is quite vague now. I like parts of "A Civil Campaign" by Bujold very much, but it has a dinner-party scene that I just can't re-read (I always skip over it). AnonMoos ( talk) 20:51, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
my 1998 list:
I will note that the sequel to one of the best books by Robert Sheckley is one of my least liked books, and probably this is the first novel that I include with serious reservations until I read the 5 best books from this year. Yasnodark ( talk) 13:48, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I take it you didn't see my post on novels this year?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:57, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
1998 list:
"Echoes of Honor" and "Dimension of Miracles Revisited" are not included on the ISFDB most-reviewed of the year page, which gives rise to questions. (I never read the original "Dimension of Miracles".) I read almost half-way into "The Cassini Division", but didn't finish it. "Earth Made of Glass" by John Barnes is impressive in some ways, but had many repulsive aspects, and I have no desire to ever reread it, so I didn't rank it. (This could be considered yet another series which goes downhill after its first book, "A Million Open Doors"...) AnonMoos ( talk) 22:15, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
my 1995 list:
Very good year. Again, the distribution of seats is rather conditional, as in 1989 .-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:30, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
"The Diamond Age" was the novel which persuaded me not to read any more Neal Stephenson books, but it was actually a fairly good book -- it's Neal Stephenson's habit of implicitly presenting disgusting libertarian dystopias as some kind of good thing which alienated me, not the quality of the book. My memories of "Flag in Exile" are somewhat vague... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:28, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
my 2000 list:
My list:
For 2000, I have what I tried to avoid in other years, a list of one item. By the way, item 3 on your list is presumably "A Storm of Swords", not "Flashforward". I read Ashes of Victory", but don't really want to rank it (I also read parts of "House Harkonnen" and "Rats, Bats & Vats"). By the way, I added "The Eye of the Queen" by Phillip Mann to my 1982 list. (I originally read it because it was said to be linguistics-related Science Fiction; it wasn't really, but still deserving of a mention.) AnonMoos ( talk) 20:31, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos I found it very difficult to decide which of the first 4 novels was the best, while the Weber novel and the Australian novel I read recently were much less to my liking, but not so much that I had doubts about their inclusion, although even in those cases I plan to include relevant novels, putting them in lower positions, if there are no better ones at the moment.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:55, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
my 2001 list:
This may be the first year that I haven't really read anything I want to rank. I did read "The Merchants of Souls" by John Barnes, and I believe "The Skies of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey also, but found them to be rather mediocre. I read half of the "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, but didn't finish it. I've wanted to read "The Curse of Chalion" by Lois McMaster Bujold, and looked through "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn several times, but never read either. I've certainly read "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" by David Weber, but it's not novel-length, and I'm not sure how much it can stand by itself, as opposed to being part of the whole Honorverse narrative.
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I did notice a book I overlooked for my year 2000 list: "Heart of Gold" by Sharon Shinn. Not sure how I missed it before. Now my 2000 list can be expanded from one entry to a grand total of two entries! (I would probably have a longer list for the year 2003.) -- AnonMoos ( talk) 22:23, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
I've discovered something from 2001 I want to rank after all, if we're including not-full novel-length stuff: "From the Highlands" by Eric Flint. So at least I have one entry for a 2001 list... AnonMoos ( talk) 22:28, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
my 2002 list:
My 2002 list:
I read the original "Coraline" book many years after I saw the movie, and probably like the movie better (though the book has the gruesome reference to the antagonist's mother's grave). I read "The Butlerian Jihad" by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert, and found it to be only middling (I wasn't encouraged to go on to read further books by those two authors). The explanation of the name "House of Atreides" was very clever, though... I had to skip forward past parts of "The Sky So Big and Black", so I didn't fully read it, and it confirmed my opinion of John Barnes as a very inconsistent author. I own a copy of "The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction" by Justine Larbalestier which is on the ISFDB 2002 list, but have only read about 15-20 pages. By the way, "War of Honor" isn't on the ISFDB list (but it doesn't matter for me, since I haven't read it). AnonMoos ( talk) 22:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
AnonMoos I wanted to ask you abot other: really Democrats don`t understand that Sanders and Buttigieg have no chance of defeating Trump? The first is barely breathing, and he is a socialist, the second is not of a traditional sexual orientation, and many Democrat voters, in my opinion, simply will not go to the polls, choosing between them and Trump, the chances of two women are unfortunately also doubtful: even Hillary did not succeed, and they can defeat Sanders only by teaming up, although they are all better than Trump, but the first two are without a chance, the other two Klobuchar and Warren simply will not pass the primaries. All that remains is Bloomberg - Out of the frying pan into the fire (A rich and unprincipled candidate of dubious principles and views), and Biden is the only normal candidate who can really confront Trump in the disputed states and among the undecided electorate. He is the only one who can repulse Russia and will not conspire with the owner of the Kremlin. And accordingly, it certainly will not allow a global war. Question: so why are all Democrats blind and ambitious and do not want to play in favor of Biden or another candidate who has a real chance of winning Trump?
AnonMoos I understand your opinion. But tell me, it's amazing that when I started the debate on the chances of uniting in favor of Biden and his nomination from the Democrats, they were close to zero, and now his chances are very high? Unfortunately, everything in our country is not very good: they have removed the pro-Western government, an independent prosecutor and hand over interests in Minsk; Zelensky and Trump are two boots of the pair: both TV presenters, actors, and businessmen with highly questionable political beliefs and knowledge in various fields. And then there is the coronavirus: we have conducted 67 tests for the entire 44 million country and boast that we have only 3 infected. I suspect that there are actually thousands of them: all restrictions are weak and belated. People from Europe go massively without quarantine. They say that you do not need to wear masks, the real reason: because they simply do not exist: everyone is pre-emptively sold to China, and may not be sick with respiratory illnesses. The problem is that patients do not particularly want to wear them. By the way, how are you: after all, all three candidates in the high risk zone?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
THE HARDKISS - ZHuravli. Ukrainian is one of the 3 most melodic in the world and you lost a lot without listening to Ukrainian songs 1 , Concours de langues de Paris 1934 -- Yasnodark ( talk) 16:20, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
In English 1, 2 are not the best in my opinion, but they are listening in the world.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:55, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
of those socio-political publications that have an English-language version of "The New Voice of Ukraine" https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor ?.
I suggest you read this article by en:Judy Dempsey on https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope
You may also be interested in articles and thoughts :
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/ukraine-war-insights-by-austrian-military-analyst-tom-cooper/
There is also a book by the most famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko
"Kobzar"
AnonMoos Hello! Unfortunately, yesterday I copied the same text twice, so the beginning disappeared and now it cannot be restored, but without the binding of the remaining text, I apologize for the incoherence.
In the missing part, I wrote that Orban has long been closely associated with the Russian mafia, and this is the reason for the strange constancy of the pro-Russian position of the Hungarian government. And it is very strange that there is still no desire to find a mechanism to exclude authoritarian Hungary from the EU and NATO.
And many times they said that pro-Russian and in many ways chauvinistic Serbia and the de facto fail state of Bosnia and Herzegovina with an even more odious Republika Srpska should join the EU and NATO before Ukraine, which had 4 revolutions for democracy over the past 33 years, 10 years war and the current large-scale invasion the largest war in the world in the last 77 years, a huge and bloody war for democracy, a war of democracy against against the new fascism and the new genocide of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars and other European nations and peoples, and not some kind of special operation there, not a small victorious war in 3 days, as seen in the Kremlin and Minsk, however, as well as in Berlin, Paris and Washington.
And vice versa, include democratic Ukraine, which for centuries stands as a border of Europe, defending it and its values from the invasion of the Asian Horde.
And even during the years of independence, for almost 30 years, Ukrainians have been acting as one force together with NATO troops. More detals Mission of NATO for the participation of Ukraine
In 1995-96, Ukrainian peacekeepers were together with the troops of NATO countries in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, unlike the Dutch, they did not run away, thereby creating the conditions for genocide. Then, also firmly, the Ukrainian military contributed to the establishment of peace in Kosovo & Maсedonia.
Then there was Iraq, where we did not leave, even after the death of a Ukrainian journalist from an American sniper's bullet, and Afghanistan, where we were the last to leave, we did not flee, but evacuated thousands of supporters of democracy abandoned by American allies. Where were Finland, Sweden or Hungary then, which are so welcome in NATO? Ukrainian special forces evacuated military translators who worked for the United States and film directors, and your government repeated Vietnam and Kurdistan, once again abandoning those who were domesticated. The little prince wouldn't do that, and it's not good. Especially in the context that throwing away a lot of equipment, including Apache helicopters and modernized Abrams with depleted uranium, giving them to the Taliban is normal, but giving these types of weapons to Ukraine at the 10th hour is an escalation. Ugh, cowards, sorry for the harshness.
Mass piercings of the American intelligence in Afghanistan and Ukraine are connected with the unprofessional head of the CIA, appointing a person from the Russian Federation to this post is complete nonsense.
You know how I supported Biden and said that the unification of Democrats around him is the only chance to defeat Trump. And so it happened. Trump's second term is still the greatest risk for peace in the whole world and for the peace of us and you. But Biden's second term with such a weak vice president is also a risk, so either he will throw the weak politically correct Kamala and the long-time companions of the Kremlin's views Carrie and Sullivan into the dustbin of history, choose Blinken or, as a last resort, Warren as vice president. And the head of the State Department should be John Herbst or William Taylor or Ben Hodges, the latter can also replace Milly, who is long overdue for retirement.
As you know, my ideal for the post of President of the USA is the late John McCain. But Bush Jr. also turned out to be not a bad president for the world and maintaining peace. Therefore, any Republican except Trump is for the world will be better than Biden with the current weak team. Even Ron DeSantis, although I would not like Mike Pence also for superstitious reasons. Unfortunately, Nikki Haley's chances of winning tend to zero. There is no chance that Jeb Bush or Consoliza Rice will win - there are also good candidates that we will not see. Therefore, if Trump is not allowed to run for office and if De does not win, then I am for Pompeo. This will not be a social president for you at all, but what are social benefits in a country that, with its indecision, is slowly leading us to the Third World War, and only the courage of Ukrainians, and let this indecisive help stand as an obstacle to this event for now. Therefore, let it be Mike Pompeo and he will pulverize all these eastern hyenas and other scavengers and help Ukraine to become a full member of NATO and the EU after the victory. And in order for this victory to happen, he will give Ukraine everything that is needed for victory and will not say that we cannot fight on the territory of the enemy, who every day destroys everything and everything on our sovereign territory. If we had been given tanks six months ago, the war would have ended a long time ago, but now we have to overcome thousands of obstacles and hundreds of thousands of mobilized Russians, now our army could easily reach Moscow and end the war, but because of the position of the West and the United States, we must first of all lose their best people while passing deeply echeloned defense on our occupied lands.
So, one should not expect a swift counter-offensive, if it were not for the position of the West, the Ukrainian army could seize all Ukrainian lands in Russia in a month and then change them to our constitutional territories or leave everything as it is with new borders and without our destroyed lands, or go to Moscow - everything would depend on changes in the leadership of the Kremlin and its new position after the conquest of Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh regions, it was also possible to bypass the borders from Voronezh region to Krasnodar with access to the Black Sea before the end of the year, and each of these options would be less bloody and easier for Ukrainian troops and more real for Western stockpiles of weapons than assaults on multi-echeloned lines in the south and east of Ukraine, but this is something to be afraid of and, as a result, undermining the Dam and a potential threat to the "Crimean Titan" and the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power station.
It's not about Putin, it's about tens of millions of Russians who support him, although the death of the main Putin, not his doppelgängers, can have an effect similar to the death of Stalin. And Patrushev, Prigozhin and Medvedev will repeat the fate of Beria, Malenkov and Khrushchev. But this country will never become a democracy in its current form for more than 10 years.
Unfortunately, yesterday I copied the same text twice, so the beginning disappeared and now it cannot be restored, but without the binding of the remaining text, I apologize for the incoherence.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
By the way, the son of candidate Kennedy fought in Ukraine, and unlike Robert and his grandson, his views are very strange to me... And what do you say about these two people?-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:51, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
Is Serbia really going to join NATO anytime soon? The Serbia–NATO relations article doesn't indicate this... AnonMoos ( talk) 20:58, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos It has been repeatedly noted that Ukraine can be accepted into the EU and NATO only after the countries of the Western Balkans, allegedly because they have been waiting for it for a long time and were promised it. And the fact that those countries do nothing for this progress, unlike Ukraine, they do not care. As well as the fact that they have a population, a very large part of which does not support Euro-Atlantic integration and has chauvinistic or pro-Russian views. Neither in Bosnia nor in Serbia was there any powerful revolution for European values, there are also big questions in Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania. It was Ukraine's mistake that we submitted an application to the EU so late, and NATO's mistake was refusing to grant us a MAP in 2008. But then Bush promoted the idea of granting membership, and now Biden is blocking it and is the main blocker for Ukraine's membership right now. And if Serbia, Bosnia together with Serbian Krajina and Montenegro are included in the EU before Ukraine, they will never let Ukraine into the EU, at least the first two countries. And we have enough of Hungary. That is why I am now skeptical about the re-election of Biden with his current entourage. Because conversations about corruption and other trivial nonsense are already starting again. However, the level of corruption in Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Cyprus did not bother anyone at the time of entry...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:40, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Did you see Prigozhin's raid on Moscow? He had 8-20 thousand people with a minimal amount of equipment and he almost reached Moscow in two days, until Patrushev ordered him to stop. That's what I said. Can you imagine what 10 well-trained Ukrainian brigades with hundreds of armored vehicles could have done if Biden had not so stubbornly forbidden us to do it? After all, all combat-ready troops of the Russian Federation are now in Ukraine. Why should the best Ukrainians die in the south and east of Ukraine storming several kilometers of fortifications instead of reaching Moscow almost unscathed? Why is the USA so afraid of the collapse of Russia, because all their previous fears of escalation in Ukraine or the collapse of the USSR were groundless? Instead, it is this indecision that opens the hands of the Kremlin for the worst actions...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
They are told that they can take Ukraine after war, but they do nothing to make our offensive successful. The troops of the NATO countries have never attacked without the 5th advantage in the air, while we have at least 5 times fewer planes and helicopters on our offensive line, that is, at least 25 times less than by NATO standards. We are not given missiles that fire at 300-500 km but Russia fires at us missiles with a range of 500-3000 km, which Bill Clinton forced us to give to Russia from aircraft that he forced to give to Russia. Has the US forgotten the Budapest Guarantees? Also, we are forbidden to shoot at Russia, and it is shelling peaceful cities throughout the country. And our country is the largest of those that are completely in Europe.
Texas is a red state in many ways, do you know any Republicans who are not Trumpists? Who are they planning to vote for? And who do you plan to vote for, because as I say, Biden is again the best option among the Democrats. How much better would Anthony Blinken of the Democrats and Nikki Haley or Condoleezza Rice of the Republicans be, though, than a Biden-Trump repeat or even a Biden-DeSanctis variant. By the way, our region is similar to Texas in electoral terms, it is one of those doubtful regions where the fate of the country was determined. Although our electoral system is simpler and the president with the most votes in the country wins.
By the way, before his death last year, shortly after the start of a new aggression of the first president Kravchuk, who at that time had just begun to recover from heart surgery, all 6 presidents and one acting president were alive. By this indicator, we were probably the first in the world. Now the United States is probably in first place - 6 living presidents, and we have 5 + 1.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:10, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Border problems did not prevent post-Nazi Germany and thoroughly corrupt Cyprus from joining NATO. Although it threatened much bigger problems. The powerful USSR did not stand in the way of supplying West Berlin, and a weak Russia causes all Western politicians to be cowardly? Ukraine stands at the gate of the democratic world, losing its best sons, and US or NATO troops can only protect Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria or Taiwan, which have nothing in common with them? Despite the fact that the USA and other NATO nuclear powers, together with Russia, did not take away the entire most powerful arsenal of weapons from them. How much can you be afraid of the Russian Federation? After all, they never carried out their threats, especially in response to the decisive actions of the enemy. Acceptance into NATO would be a strong step, and after a weak summit, Russia is sending troops to Belarus with the aim of potentially capturing the Suwalki Corridor. This is the result of the weak position of the Biden administration. And this would never happen if Ukraine joined the Alliance.
This is all reminiscent of the Munich conspiracy and NATO leaders have forgotten the similar slogan "one for all and all for one". D'Artagnan was less aristocratic than Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and they didn't know him at all and had reason to kill him, and all four turned against the cardinal's guards. Unfortunately, only Macron and Sunak at the summit resembled Aramis a little, and Biden and Scholz are not at all similar to Athos and Porthos in their behavior. They don't even look like De Treville, more like Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarini. Money and intrigue are more important to them than the lives of younger partners. After all, the behavior of the West is like those Athos and Porthos who say to D'Artagnan, we will not fight alongside you for victory, nor can we give you a sword, but we will give you a knife, but in no case do not use it in Britain, only on the territory your France Something similar. And we'll never take you into the Musketeers until you get the pendants out of Britain with this fine knife of ours. So thank us for this great and powerful help!
Biden is like that old Akella, who tamed Mowgli-Ukraine, who is about to fail, and this is exactly what Putin-Sherkhan is waiting for. However, he forgot that he must be responsible for those whom he tamed. But even more he will remind King Théoden struck by the charms of Saruman and the lies of Gríma Wormtongue. Unfortunately, this is exactly what the president of the United States, the most powerful country in the world, looks like. Powerful and old and bewitched by the magic and lies of Wormtongue Jake Sullivan and other agents of influence of the Kremlin in the District of Columbia William Burns and John Kerry, who are telling him that a slow China with a small handful of nuclear weapons and total dependence on the US in the form of trillions in debt and turnover is greater a threat to fast and fascist Russia, whose goal is the destruction of the West. Unlike China, which is slow to form its goals and only applies economic instruments. But all the same, they seem to tremble with fear because of the possible collapse of Russia, because it seems to strengthen the People's Republic of China - the biggest threat. And if they continue to act like this, it will lead to a world war right now and it will not be necessary to wait 100 years for a war with China. And every reasonable person understands this, and for some reason Biden believes them or pretends to.
Kennedy and Williamson, in my opinion, are even worse than Trump for Ukraine, so I hope that they have no chance of being in the final elections. I'm not talking about Biden, with all his minuses and the caution of the old wolf. But better old wolf than those three inhabitants of the Shutter Island flying over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
This is the first I've heard from your Texas Republican, what do you think of Gavin Newsom? Yasnodark ( talk) 14:30, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps, by the end of this month, our troops will succeed in breaking through the enemy's defenses...--
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Although if Ukraine had not been forbidden to go to the enemy's territory, all these sacrifices would have been unnecessary, because there is no echeloned defense or troops from Chernihiv to Moscow, not 9 equipped but 5 brigades could reach Moscow, and 9 could take it and the end of the war would come. However, we were stubbornly forbidden to do so, and boys and girls at the front and peaceful people all over Ukraine are dying from missile attacks, the head of the President's Office Yermak asked for the "Patriot" system six months before the invasion, the president asked to impose sanctions a week before the possible invasion to prevent the invasion and the West said that there would be an invasion and did nothing to help. Recruited by the Kremlin when he lived in Moscow, the head of the CIA Burns, as the US ambassador, presciently predicted that Afghanistan would last at least 6 months after the withdrawal of troops, and he did not resist for three days, millions of people accustomed to democracy were betrayed and thrown at the mercy of even military interpreters and prominent the artists were taken away not by the American, but by the Ukrainian special forces. This same brilliant "Nostradamus" with the Kremlin spirit predicted that Ukraine would hold out for three days and once again fell down and kept his post, is this not Biden's foresight or something else? Sullivan is even worse, he is one of those "golden boys" that Russia drives in droves, talking about the great Russian people and recruiting the golden youth of the West and young intellectuals, some for money and some for ballet and books. Every time you meet congressmen or senators or their representatives, if you go to such meetings, demand the resignation of Sullivan and Burns, because if they stay there will be the Third World. Their place is in the most rotten ditch, not in high offices. Kamala Devil Harris should also be got rid of immediately, because if Biden doesn't do it, he will never win at his age with such a weak vice president, when to play liberalism, it should be Blinken, Hodges, or if a woman is more powerful, for example Linda Thomas-Greenfield may be better. Otherwise, he may lose even to Trump, and if this continues, the Ukrainians will be ready to take risks, even rooting for Trump, he is unpredictable and the Kremlin has classified information on him, he is indifferent to values and the world order will be at risk, his second term is very dangerous for everyone, because of the limitations will not. However, he has already spat on that compromising material once, it was under Trump that we were first given the "Javelins," which we requested for 5 years under Obama, and it was under Trump that Western bombers with nuclear weapons flew over the border with Crimea to fulfill the Budapest memorandum and no one put them under questioning the freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, now the US administration has completely ignored this basic principle of its international policy. It was precisely against such double standards that Heinlein and McCain, who were called hawks and militarists, and they were simply far-sighted people who did not want greater sacrifices in a greater war, because they went through such wars personally and did not consider soldiers as pawns on a large chessboard, and Russia as a democratic and cultural the country it never was. Therefore, either Biden will change his rotten environment or the Wagnerites will go to Kaliningrad so that the Suwalki corridor between Poland and Lithuania will disappear and then American soldiers will die in a new big war. That is why, in the current conditions, any Republican other than Trump is better for Ukraine, America and the world than Biden in a second term with the current advisers and vice president and heads of special services, because no Republican will talk about escalation without providing weapons. Unfortunately, Trump is not a true Republican, and that's the problem. And God forbid we see a new Biden-Trump duel...
I told you right away that the offensive would not be quick, because planes, missiles, and tanks were not given to us in time, and unfortunately, even the next promises turned out to be only promises, and the destruction of the Kakhovska HPP made it impossible to make a backup offensive after leaks from the United States about the main direction of the attack, but now I still say that a breakthrough is possible at the border of August and September, because the Ukrainian soldiers are already fighting in a different way due to the lack of essentials, and at least the cluster shells recently gave us, and now the advantage of the Russian artillery is "only" twofold, and not 20-fold, as it was last year and 5 times as much as it was in the spring. Ukrainians have also developed models of air and sea drones that reach military bases in the occupied territories and in Russia, so the Russians will not be so comfortable. But the main thing is that the Americans should know that Ukrainians are killed every day in the occupied territories and in peaceful cities, in addition, Ukrainians from the occupied territories are forcibly mobilized and sent to their deaths without the possibility of surrendering or retreating because the cordoning units and the situation at the front do not give such an opportunity. Even people with pro-Ukrainian views are often forced to fight against other Ukrainians, because torture chambers in basements are even worse and few choose this option of torture and slow death. All this should be remembered when the Americans in high places conduct their "escalation" calculations, once again not providing us with the necessary weapons and saying that the Ukrainians do not need them. Because this is an outright lie. Read the interview of Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhnyi https://mind.ua/en/news/20259412-we-need-more-weapons-airplanes-and-patience-key-points-from-general-zaluzhnys-interview-with-th .
P.S. Forgive me if I am again too harsh in my judgments, but I can see better, because in 1939-41 Roosevelt was just as inflexible in helping Britain and even more so the USSR and only Pearl Harbor rallied the allies. I don't think that it will be good to fall into the same rake again for the new American president of the lean years, because in this way you may not live to victory, and the desire to avert escalation will only lead to it, and this has already happened more than 10 times in this war alone and that old war as well and no less. We always thank our Western partners, but they don't tell us enough. And we always say you give too little for victory and too late. Ukraine may not be able to withstand it if this continues in the future, and the West does not take this into account. Just as there will be no peace in Europe as long as Russia exists in the present imperial prison of nations, Carthage must be destroyed. What do you think would happen if Allen Dulles managed to sign a separate agreement with the Nazis and there was no entry of the Allies into the territory of Germany? There would be another even bigger war and new millions of victims, and it is not clear to us how Biden does not understand this, giving a negotiating mandate to the new Dulles - Sullivan and Burns, who are playing into the hands of the Kremlin, giving the Russians a chance to make new, more powerful weapons. That is why we thank you, but we are waiting for the necessary weapons and thanks for the fact that Ukraine holds the front of democracy, because this is not a Ukrainian war, but a war of the West with Russia, to which the West has not yet appeared and is fighting with the hands of Ukrainians, shedding our blood.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:33, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
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-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:33, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Non-recognition of the occupation of the Baltic states for 52 years did not make their residents free and did not free them from the killing of repressions and deportations of hundreds of thousands of residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. At any moment, Russia can try to invade the Wagner groups and Belarusians on the border of Lithuania and Poland and can say that it has nothing to do with this in the case of an operational response from NATO, and if there is no response, Putin will boast of successful land expansion or praise Lukashenko
NATO's only hope is the decisive actions of the armed forces of Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden or Finland in the first weeks of a possible military provocation in one direction or another, because NATO as a whole is not ready to repel even a proxy attack Russia, not to mention a full-scale invasion of the Baltics, although the first option is even more difficult because it will give another reason not to react.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:48, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Above, I listed a whole bunch of fairly direct attacks on NATO forces: the destruction of military depots and people on NATO territory, the destruction of aircraft and ships of NATO countries, missile strikes and flights of missiles and helicopters into the space of NATO countries, and not only the fifth was not included, but also 4th article. And even the 5th provides only for consultations, and there are not such stupid people sitting in the Kremlin that the attack would be their direct style, and their military doctrine always provides for indirect hybrid methods of military operations. Indeed, during Stoltenberg's time, NATO, which was pushed to be disbanded, found a new life and the former supporter of Russia lost to the supporter of democracy in his soul, Stoltenberg did a lot against the opposition of vegetarian pacifists and Russian agents within the alliance. That is why progress is so difficult, besides, the targets do not understand the risks and do not understand the essence of Russia and the impossibility of its democratic development in its current form. By the way, Trump was the first to pay attention to the schedule - moral and physical NATO, he is not an enemy of NATO, he made it clear that NATO and the USA are now the same thing and if European countries do not rearm and spend money instead of destroying their stocks and equipment, then in the absence of the desire in the USA to fight NATO will fall in weeks... The only exceptions are Turkey, Britain and partly Poland during Trump's time and so far not much has changed, although combat-capable Finland has been added and France and Germany are also increasing their combat capability, albeit at a very slow pace. I'm telling you, the defense plan of the 3 Baltic countries provided for their complete rapid occupation, which should last six months and only after six months of preparation with the destruction of the best people and the deportation of many others to Siberia, which of course NATO did not think about, because there is in the 21st, are there countries that will violate conventions and rules? Idiots. NATO planned to respond and start a battle for the Baltic states, this was the plan for the time of the invasion of Ukraine...
So, Putin is not stupid enough to go straight, but he is defiantly stupid enough to go hybrid, and the decision depends exclusively on those advisers who will be next to him at this time - hawks or pragmatists, and if hawks are smart or stupid and if pragmatists - then pragmatics of agreements or pragmatics of hybrid power and agreements after an attack on the rights of the strong. And if one of the two aggressive Waratans out of 4 wins, a hybrid attack will be made. In the Kremlin, it's not us who will say this, it's Prigozhin's crazy prisoners and fascists, we ourselves barely suffocated them, you yourself saw how they almost didn't reach Moscow, thank you for helping the intelligence officers then and that didn't happen. However, Lukashenko helped us with them then and now he conspired with them, and as you can see his troops also attacked the corridor, we are against it, of course, I am afraid that now they will attack our bases and fleet in Kaliningrad, etc. Oh, it was already seized while you and I were talking, Mr. Sullivan, what a shame, you probably still need to impose sanctions on Lukashenka and Prigozhin. Moreover, the attacks will most certainly not be on Poland, but on Lithuania or directly along the border of the two states. Do you really think that a couple of thousand NATO troops in Lithuania and even 10-20 thousand hastily assembled Lithuanian troops will be able to stop 10 thousand Wagner specialists who have gone through 5 wars with a reserve of several tens of thousands of Belarusian troops who have been training continuously for 20 months. Do you know how long it takes to transfer troops? And will the reaction be instantaneous, so that troops of at least the size that Prigozhin and Lukashenko can field will be deployed within a week? And if the attack is successful, the Kremlin will say that the territory of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and an attack on it will be an attack on the territory of Russia and the beginning of a nuclear war, what will Biden say. By the way, Trump reacted in Syria instantly, and after Russia said that hundreds of Wagnerites attacking the US-controlled factory were not Russians, they were immediately bombed. Erdogan immediately shot down a Russian plane in controlled airspace. However, the Democrats have shown that they will, to put it bluntly, chew snot and not respond quickly, and if the Kremlin thinks so, then there will be attacks. Of course, there will be a reaction, but even if it is lightning-fast in decision-making, it will take weeks or at least days for the transfer of troops, and in this period of time I only hope for the Armed Forces of Poland, Ukraine and other Baltic countries, in particular, the important position of Finland and Sweden. But even if everything happens like this and the response is lightning-fast, it is better for Poland and Lithuania and can save Latvia and Estonia, but even in this case, Russia will receive another bonus: all the weapons that were planned for Ukraine will be transferred to the Baltic States and Russian personnel forces will move to a new offensive, more precisely, they will intensify it, because it is already underway in a number of areas, and now the question is being resolved where the breakthrough will be faster: Ukrainian in the South or Russian in the east or north of my country.
P.S. The area of Taiwan is less than 36 thousand square km, the area of Ukraine is less than 604 thousand square km, the controlled territory is more than more than 490 thousand square km, the United States provided Taiwan with 50 batteries of Patriot systems, and Ukraine with 2 Patriot systems, is this really fair and are the risks so great for in East Asia to allow Russian missiles to destroy everything and everyone in Ukraine with impunity? And is it possible to give Ukraine 10 batteries to cover another 10 million people and the largest enterprises and cultural centers in 7 cities and their suburbs, as well as 3 nuclear plants, and Taiwan to promise to provide 10 from America in case of an attack on the Chinese island? Yasnodark ( talk) 13:10, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
AnonMoos Hello! I waited and procrastinated for a long time before writing this ill-advised post, but my patience ran out, it's been half a year, but the visa is still there., but my patience gave way. One gets the impression that you have only selfish and short-sighted idiots sitting in the Congress, and not politicians-statesmen. and from both sides (of course, your parliament is no exception, but I expected better from the most influential legislative body in the world). While Ukrainians are dying en masse due to lack of weapons and ammunition, these incompetent narcissistic profane
have been blocking a vital aid package for Ukraine for months because of their own political ambitions, stubbornly dragging the whole world into the maelstrom of the third world war. I think that in order for Ukraine to receive help and not be able to seize the whole of Europe, the PRC should strike the US military base in Okinawa, maybe then the imbeciles will wake up, that they are playing with fire. After all, populists from both parties behaved in the same way after the beginning of the Second World War until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, not giving the necessary help to either Great Britain or the USSR, and only then did Roosevelt and the parliamentarians wake up. Then the situation changed and it was already too late for many millions of dead in Europe and hundreds of thousands of Americans, and these victims could have been avoided if real help had been given after the attack on China, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia or Poland, but even an attack on France, Britain or The USSR did not significantly change the situation.
Experience says: a miser pays twice and whoever does not want to pay in money will pay in blood. It seems that America is choosing the second path, stepping on the same rake again. And you still don't hear how the appetite of the Russians is whetting and how they are going to conquer all of Europe and write on the car instead of last year's "To Berlin" now "To Washington", how they switched to military rails and how the aid to the DPRK, Iran and the PRC is increasing Russia, while the USA and the EU fall into lethargy, because the EU package of 50 billion is blocked by Putin's friend Orban due to his common ties with the Russian mafia, moreover, the only safe trade route to the west is blocked in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary by agents of the Kremlin from the right-wing parties, and the Russian Federation in all countries supports the far-right and the far-left, and blind voters do not notice this, by the way, you have socialists among the Democrats and Trumpists among the Republicans, who influence the parties as a whole, and both of them are paid by the Kremlin. I'm not talking about how the Russian Federation organized an attack on Israel from Gaza and the now planned attack by Venezuela on Guyana...
However, most sleazy politicians and journalists cannot put 2 and 2 together...
Time after time, the New York Times and the Washington Post spread unprecedented fakes about Ukraine and release secret information about military supplies and plans of Ukraine, disrupting our operations or revealing our secret special operations, and they do it as disgustingly as Tucker Carlson or Fox News. However, most sleazy politicians and journalists cannot put 2 and 2 together Don't congressmen and journalists on the payroll of the Kremlin understand that hundreds of thousands of Americans will die because of them? And why is the socialist minority controlling the Democrats by pushing aid to Gaza and blocking the migrant barrier, while the Trumpist minority is manipulating all Republicans by making unacceptably tough demands on migrants, blocking the package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan? By the way, the United States has given Taiwan, with its area of 36,500 square kilometers 50 Patriot systems, and Ukraine, with an area of 603 square kilometers or more than 490, 000 square kilometers, currently has only 1 system, and all allies - only 4 should be installed by the end of winter, despite the fact that no one is firing missiles at Taiwan, and Ballistic missiles are flying in Ukraine, which can be shot down only by "Patriot" and the European analogue, now there are only 3 of them, which can protect only the capital and one more city, although ballistic missiles have not been shot down in any of the other cities... The planes have not been provided yet, because training it just started, and pro-Russian forces came to power in the Netherlands, which may not provide the promised planes when someone learns, although 60 of the best pilots have already died, including the 2 most famous ghosts of Kyiv and their teacher, who had to fly out himself due to a lack of pilots.
There are no rules for the Russians: ours run out of ammunition - they surrender in captivity and are shot, and if they are not shot - they are tortured in the basements for years without the right to exchange, because the Russians in our captivity live in better conditions than they have at home at large, and many of I did not see them that way, because they are prisoners.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:47, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
And I am not the only "free radical" in my views, here is an example of what Tetyana Danylenko, the wife of the brigade commander of the most combat-capable Third Assault Brigade Andriy Biletskyi, writes, a well-known independent journalist who was the TV face of Maidans in 2004-5 and 2013-14:
"If Ukraine loses, Russia will form an army of one million Ukrainians and advance on Europe. The Ukrainian authorities do not really want to announce a mass mobilization in order not to frighten the electorate. The Kremlin will die. This whole horde with foreign troops will march to the West. In the Baltic States, we will check whether Article 5 of NATO is working. It is obvious that it will work, but as long as NATO countries hold consultations, it will no longer be relevant. And then the most interesting will begin. No exit from Afghanistan for the US will be comparable in effect to those events that are quite possible in the event of Ukraine's failure. In a matter of days, the United States will turn from a world hegemon into just a big country, one of many. This will be an opportunity to find out whether the final foreign policy collapse will help them improve the quality of health insurance and solve the problem of the border with Mexico..."-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:38, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
By the way, for comparison, the last two aid packages from Denmark for Ukraine amount to 500 million and 1 billion euros, respectively, i.e. 1,500 billion euros together, i.e. 300 euros for each resident of Denmark, the last 2 packages from the USA amounted to 175 and 200 million, i.e. 375 million dollars together, which is 1 euro per US resident. These are the pies, as Jim Carrey said.- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:39, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Because US support has completely stopped and the last billion from the reserve fund, which was planned for Ukraine, Biden transferred in December to replenish US military reserves, and Johnson is spreading an outright lie that we do not need support in December and January, although our troops stopped the offensive from -for this reason, problems with containing the Russian influx are already being felt...-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Then, when Ukraine fought on its own, aid came, and every time we could defeat Russia, then the aid was artificially reduced, all types of weapons were provided to us late and in small quantities, and the planes still have not been provided, Biden blocked for 2 years even the training of our pilots by other countries, even the transfer Soviet airplanes in Poland - they arbitrarily disassembled their airplanes and told us where they were placed on the border in the forest disassembled Soviet airplanes. Such is the good old cautious Biden. Mr. "there is no need for escalation". Dozens of experienced American pilots wanted to fight in Ukraine and were not given planes. And almost 70 of the best Ukrainian pilots have already died because of the positions of the Biden cabinet because they risked their lives on leaky troughs made 40-60 years ago However, the worst thing was that Biden blocked the implementation of the Lend-Lease law initiated by the Republicans specifically to avoid pauses in the supply of weapons and the possibility of providing really powerful aid, even when a crisis arose in Congress, he did not automatically extend it and the possibility of extension no longer depended on him and her was lost
And it was the Democrats who changed the rules so that only 1 congressman could make the resignation of the speaker possible.
When McCarthy was dismissed from the post of speaker who agreed to put to a vote the draft law on aid to Ukraine for 2024, all the Democrats voted for his resignation, knowing that the next speaker could be a Trumpist.
Moreove, the Democrats could elect an excellent republican adequate pro-Ukrainian speaker Steve Scalise and they did not vote.
Later, they could elect a more or less adequate and independent balanced slightly Trumpist Jim Jordan by giving at least 20 votes, but they did not vote and were elected with the help of Trumpist votes and Trump's puppet schizo Johnson was elected and what is strange is now they are trying to convince him of support in case of resignation instead initiate it and vote for Scales.
In addition, the position of the Democrats on the border is also not clear, so I asked about your attitude to the current migration policy of the United States...
Therefore, in the opinion of a thoughtful part of Ukrainians, the Democrats are not much better than the Republicans
Our ideal Republican candidate is Nikki Haley, but is there any chance of her being nominated. From the Democrats, of course, there is no alternative to Biden, although Gavin Newsom, Tony Blinken or Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio could easily defeat Trump, it would be easier if Biden did not even refuse to go to the elections, but maybe he removed Kamala Harris and went with someone from this trio. What am I afraid of? the biggest thing is Biden's refusal to run in favor of Michelle Obama - this is the beginning of the end for Ukraine and the beginning of the end for the entire civilized world. You don't understand this - but we can see it. And who to choose, Biden or Trump, in the interests of Ukraine is difficult to determine. As they say in our country: a terrible end is better than endless horror, and he who does not take risks does not drink champagne, so if Biden does not come to his senses and provide quick help without looking back at Congress, then Trump is better - Trump is surrounded by idiots however, Biden is surrounded by Russian agents who have a real influence on him, and Trump is influenced only by Trump. Ukrainians did not make a mistake when they elected Zelensky - a cat - in a bag - instead of the more predictable Poroshenko, so if the Americans elect Trump - we will try to take a second risk. If there were still elections now, instead, you still have to wait until your inauguration...
What is completely incomprehensible to me is why you have such objectionable laws: for example, in our country, if the budget is not adopted on time, the country lives on 1/12 of last year's budget, and why there is no such simple solution in the USA, I do not understand at all.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:58, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
AnonMoos What was your impression after the debate? Biden and his supporters talk a lot about Trump's lies. There were many manipulations in his words on various topics, but regarding Ukraine he told the pure truth, instead, Biden lied and manipulated facts everywhere, I think partly due to health problems, because he lost cause-and-effect and temporal relationships due to memory problems yatta and milestone functions. So in this pair, the winner is known, unfortunately, it is still unknown what kind of winner it is, because it is not clear what Trump and his will be like. And the replacement candidates are even worse, for Biden, not for Trump.
In my opinion, you would have chosen better actors like us: Sean Penn, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Barbra Streisand or Julia Roberts - it would have been much better. Actors have a big plus - endurance to loads and, unlike athletes, intelligence is often present, and the cynicism of politicians is absent. By the way, in what sequence would you place these celebrities?
Although you can just rob Tony Blinken and not suffer... Yasnodark ( talk) 13:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
It is worth watching his film about Ukraine Superpower (2023) / https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18327788/ -- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:08, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Barbra Streisand was the first infamous celebrity to volunteer to support the United 24 fundraising platform. I didn't call them dangerous liberals of foreign views. Although the other three from the list are somewhat uncertain in today's world, but the same Bloom came to Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, and DiCaprio also supported the truth, Aniston was the first to pay attention to the " Come Back Alive" platform.
Any of them will definitely be better than both candidates. You have to watch the debate. Unfortunately, I overslept these debates of yours and have only watched many fragments so far.
Biden looked pitiful, a pale shadow of himself, and even on the friendly SNN channel scored only 33 percent out of 100. Trump looked unconventionally decent, as manipulative as always, but surprisingly less than Biden. It was especially depressing to watch Biden when he, when he came across a convenient topic of banning abortion, connected it to the mass arrival of migrants in an attempt to saddle a topic convenient for the Republicans-- Yasnodark ( talk) 12:16, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
In this week's issue of our Austin "alt-weekly", there's an article about Oleksandr Svatok, who previously played in Dnipro, now about to play for an Austin soccer team... AnonMoos ( talk) 18:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:09, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
I might join ISFDB if I could ask a story-ID or "YASID" question, but it doesn't seem that such questions would be welcome there... The "Top Novels as Voted by ISFDB Users" listing is a little strange, since it only sporadically corresponds to what are either great classics or highly-popular works in the SF field. For instance, books by Roger Zelazny and Alfred Bester are very highly ranked. I like one book by Bester, and have read 15 or 20 by Zelazny, but I don't understand the way that their books are ranked here -- for example, "Roadmarks", a perfectly readable but not necessarily highly-distinguished 1979 Roger Zelazny novel, is ranked over ten places higher than Tolkien's "The Return of the King" (which apparently stands in for the "Lord of the Rings" series)!
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AnonMoos I agree that the rating you mentioned looks a bit strange. Although it is most likely compiled in the opinion of the site's editors, at the same time the second
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/stats.cgi?14 one looks absolutely adequate, but it is unclear whether I have an opinion there, because the number of points or grades is incredibly high. I think it's worth trying to register. Unfortunately, I do not have something to register. So if it's easy for you, I would ask you to try it. I can add more legal topics to start entering there.
In D0.B0.D0.BD.D1.81.D0.BE.D0.B2.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9 Item 81 on this page ask about the birthplace of the science fiction writer.
In in this encyclopedia of speculative fiction "Энциклопедия фантастики: кто есть кто?": ок. 1300 статей / В. И. Бугров [и др.]; ред. В. Гаков. — Минск: ИКО «Галаксиас», 1995. — 694 с. — ISBN 985-6269-01-6 * there is an answer to the question about Sever Hansovsky and many others.
In addition, 2-3 years ago, someone not very smart put question marks next to all Slavic writers and their works, I claim that they are all fairly included in the isfdb database and are in the relevant encyclopedias of speculative fiction and databases in Russian, Ukrainian or Polish. This is very important. I think that this is enough to enter the community, and then you can ask about ratings without any problems. Yasnodark ( talk) 15:36, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
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@Yasnodark. It seems you have no experience with this, and you are very close to being indeffed. Here is my advice. (a) Never comment again at ANI and about other users per WP:NPA. You are doing a disservice to yourself and others. (b) Discuss your differences on article talk page. (c) The tag-teaming is obvious, unless this is also a WP:SOCK problem. Do not do that or all of you can be indeffed pretty soon. Finally, I am petty much pro-Ukrainian, hence this advice. Happy editing! My very best wishes ( talk) 16:40, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Please review this edit of yours. If the book was published in 1995, which did you add a 2016 category to the article? Debresser ( talk) 23:53, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
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similarly to this article.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 15:40, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
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Is there any particular reason that the Ukrainian Wikipedia "Gor (planeta)" article uses the German-language map instead of the English-language map? AnonMoos ( talk) 12:56, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunately, translations of Ukrainian speculative fiction in the USA are very bad, maybe these links can help:
Perhaps you will be able to use the automatic translation in Google, then at least in general terms you can familiarize yourself with the texts of some books
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Maybe if you visit the Ukrainian Center in Austin, they can provide you with some English-language books by Ukrainian speculative fiction writers
And here you can hear the living Ukrainian language, this audiobook presents the text of the 1930s - one of the first science fiction books in Ukrainian by Volodymyr Vladko about the exploration of Venus "Argonauts of the Universe"
As for the science fiction writers you named, Bulgakov was born in Kyiv, the father of the Strugatsky brothers was born in the now flooded Kherson, the mother was in the Chernihiv province and spoke Ukrainian. All four were persecuted and not given freely in the USSR.
I suspect that you also do not know that Chekhov had both grandmothers and both grandfathers were Ukrainians and before moving to Russia he did not know the Russian language, he hated Moscow, and his Ukrainian city Taganrog was forcibly transferred to the RSFSR in 1924, this happened after the decision of the joint Ukrainian-Russian commission to transfer the Ukrainian lands of the Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk and Bryansk regions to Ukraine and the subsequent appeal of the leadership of the Russian Federation, after which almost all these lands were forcibly left to Russia against the will of the local population, at the same time, two other Ukrainian districts - Taganrog and Shakhtsky okrug to Russia. In 1931, thousands of schools with the Ukrainian language of instruction were liquidated on these and other lands, and after that millions of Ukrainians were killed during the artificial Holodomor of 1932-33 and repressions in the 1930s, which was on all Ukrainian lands. Many others were exiled, the rest were recorded as Russians and Ukrainians were squeezed out of them. This process continues to this day, and although part of the population still speaks Ukrainian, they were told that this is only a dialect of Russian, and the majority have lost their Ukrainian consciousness. The same is being done now with the inhabitants of the occupied territories: they burn Ukrainian books, they kill or send them to torture in the basement for using the Ukrainian language, they send children to correctional concentration camps, where they are forced to learn the Russian anthem for 4 hours a day and brainwashed, the occupiers loot and they rape, including children and pesionaries, during the flood after the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, unique reserves and museums were flooded, and drowning people are surrounded by cordons and are not allowed to evacuate, just like the villages were surrounded during the Holodomors until most people died out. In Kakhovka the reservoir had so much water that it was possible to drink the entire population of the Earth for two years, it supplied annually more than 4 million Ukrainians in the south and in the Crimea, thousands hundreds of thousands of wild animals and possibly thousands of people died. In total, more than a thousand medical institutions, the same number of educational and cultural facilities, hundreds of sports facilities, dozens of power plants and the same number of airports, thousands of houses and enterprises were destroyed and damaged in Ukraine. In Mariupol alone, from 25 to 100 thousand people were killed, and the city was wiped off the face of the Earth. Every night - rocket strikes, we had yesterday at 3 am. And this is in a "relatively peaceful" city, you can imagine what is happening in others. Back in October 2021, the head of the administration, Andriy Yermak, asked the "Patriot" systems to give them only in May and only two, thousands of victims and thousands of unique objects could have been avoided, the planes were promised to us on the third day of the big war, and only recently the issue began to be resolved.
At the same time, due to an incomprehensible decision of your government, Ukrainian businessman Maksym Polyakov was forced to sell the space company that connected our two cities due to the fact that he is a citizen of Ukraine and his brainchild "Firefly Aerospace" became someone else's, and this was a new chance for the Ukrainian nation to pave the way to space, because it is Ukrainians Kybalchich, Tsiolkovsky, Sikorsky, Kondratyuk, Glushko, Korolyov, Antonov, Yangel, Popovych and others made almost the biggest contribution to mankind becoming a cosmic race. It was Ukrainians who designed and created the first space vehicles, calculated the trajectories of the space flights of the USSR and the USA, launched the first satellite, and the first song in space also sounded Ukrainian -- Yasnodark ( talk) 14:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
I answered above.
Persons associated with Ukraine who made space exploration possible:
AnonMoos 2 books by Oles Berdnyk "Star corsar" & "The apostle of immortality"
and 3 books by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko https://dyachenkowriters.com/books/ have been translated into English. I suspect that translations of Max Kidruk, the most famous among young science fiction writers, may soon be published. You can probably get some other books or find out which ones have been translated at the Ukrainian Society of Austin.
Also, by searching for the following sites in Google, you can press the translate button and go to the auto-translated version and at least understand something about our speculative fiction in general terms.
And you can try to learn Ukrainian on this site
Even more Ukrainian speculative fiction books have been translated into French, but there is also something in Hebrew.
As for Tsiolkovskyi, he has a much smaller relationship with Ukraine, unlike the others. His father was from Ukraine, and he himself noted in the margins of the encyclopedia that he was a direct descendant of the famous Ukrainian Cossack Severyn Nalyvayko, but he made his discoveries in Russia. And Yuriy Kondratyuk, Serhiy Korolyov and other pioneers of cosmonautics have a direct relationship with Ukraine. It was according to Kondratyuk's calculations that the USSR and the USA flew into space and onto the moon for the first time. His fate is completely unknown, he disappeared during the Second World War, but somehow his diary ended up in the USA - either someone moved it from the concentration camp or he himself moved with von Braun, the most incredible version is that he is von Braun. John Houbolt said, he died in 1952 in the USA. The initiator of the USSR flights into space and the launch of the first satellite of dogs and people into space was another Ukrainian Serhiy Korolyov, he died on the operating table while preparing the project of an expedition to Mars, and the rockets were developed by Valentin Hlushko and him. The author of the "Big Bang" theory, George Gamov and Carl Sagan, whose parents were born in Ukraine, are probably the most famous astrophysicists and cosmologists in the world. Pavlo Popovych - cosmonaut number 4-5 and the first singer in space, Oleg Antonov designed the largest plane in the world "Mriya" destroyed by the Russians, it was the first air launch project. And the first large airplanes and helicopters were made by the Ukrainian Ihor Sikorsky, partly already in the USA. The sea launch project is connected with our Zenit rockets, which Musk called the best in the world before creating his own. Antares parts and stages are also made in Ukraine. Ukraine also participates in the Artemis project. Well, Max Polyakov, the 4th private space investor in the world, as I wrote earlier, had to sell his company because of the position of your government on the eve of the war, because part of the company was in the Dnipro and he himself was a citizen of Ukraine...
Just shortly before this, I wanted to write to you that there is the 4th company in the world headed by a Ukrainian, which is located simultaneously in Austin and Dnipro. However, it was not before that, and you did not respond to the SF list of 1999. By the way, you don't want to get distracted and return to the lists by years, at least it's very distracting.
About 50 civilians died in the Dnipro in just one incident. And in general, probably three times more. And even before February 24, 2022, more than 500 soldiers from the Dnipro died, now this number is also much higher. More than 350 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have died since 2014, and more than 300 since February 24, including 11 world champions and as many medalists of world and European championships and more than 100 champions of Ukraine. During the rocket attacks on the Dnipro, athletes were also killed, in the strike that you mentioned, it seems 4. 4 ballet dancers of the main roles also died. A window was broken 500 meters from us, and the buildings where I was on the same day also suffered. And any blow or even the work of air defense can be heard loudly throughout the city, and most often at night. Other cities were simply wiped off the face of the Earth by whole blocks and districts. When the dam was blown up, several large reserves with all the animals were destroyed, including all three branches of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, which will soon be 100 years old.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Nihonjoe Hello! Have you watched the judo tournament at the Olympics? If the answer is yes, how do you like refereeing
Hello, I disagree that Myself in the Distant Future is a science fiction film; a 'utopian' setting does not equal a science fiction. Gorden 2211 ( talk) 09:52, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
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Here you just replaced the references to reliable sources with references to unreliable sources, that is, to a user-generated slide presentation
[6] and some local blog article written by an anonymous person
[7]. And I see you are making mass-changes of "Russian Jewish" to "Ukrainian Jewish" on a bunch of article, again with unreliable sources or with no sources. You have 9,000 edits, you should know that this is not acceptable. If you continue this will go to the administrators' noticeboard.
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Mellk Hello! You have not looked carefully at the page history. It was I who returned the old version of the articles, because this anonymous user, who is probably a Russian chauvinist, massively changed from Ukrainian Jew or Belarusian Jew to Russian Jew. All the mentioned persons have their roots in Ukraine or Belarus and the cities of origin of them or their ancestors have nothing to do with Russia.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:23, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Mellk This user wrote that he reverted the editing of a blocked user. All the more, you are not interested in the essence, her ancestors are not from Russia but from Ukraine, because Kharkiv has always been a Ukrainian city and even in the days of the Russian Empire it was the center of the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate, later Kharkiv became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:41, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Linuxator, MelnykSerg, & Sanya3 Hello! I would like to hear your opinion as well.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:41, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Linuxator Hello! You have given a very excellent example and I also agree with many other points you have made, but unfortunately, the other side is advancing opposite opinions. You can look at the discussion in the same section. Although there may be debates over the use of the term occupation in relation to that period, because such a term deprives us of a number of other arguments. For example, according to the constitution, the Ukrainian SSR was an independent state, and later became a founding member of the United Nations. In addition, during the entire existence of the Ukrainian SSR there were 2 concepts - citizen of the Ukrainian SSR and citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1918 to 1931 and from 1990 to 1991 they had international use, and in the period 1918-1923 the citizenship of the USSR did not exist at all, instead there was citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR, although at least during a part of it, citizenship of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian State also existed, and all of them had their own peculiarities of granting and depriving. And from 1923 to 1931, residents of the Ukrainian SSR were simultaneously considered citizens of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR at the international level and during foreign trips, in addition, the national team of the Ukrainian SSR took part in international matches, and the Ukrainian SSR itself established international relations with other countries, for example, with Turkey. Ukrainian films were presented abroad precisely as films of the Ukrainian SSR, not as films of the USSR, etc. And only since 1931, the citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR retained only local significance, and the passport of the USSR had only significance in the international arena. And so it was until 1990, the year of the new legislation on the citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR. By the way, Mikheil Saakashvili took part in the Referendum that decided the fate of Ukraine in 1991. But then he went to Georgia and even forgot that he was a citizen of the Ukrainian SSR. Although, on the basis of this, it would be much easier for him to regain Ukrainian citizenship, as well as to deprive him of it. It is a pity, but the fact of the history of Ukrainian SSR citizenship is rarely taken into account in the identity cards, as if it did not exist.
Taking into account all of the above, the issue of officially recognizing the occupation has both pluses and significant minuses. Although, of course, no one disputes that the reformation of the Ukrainian People's Republic into the Ukrainian SSR was forced, not voluntary, for a significant, if not most, part of the republic's citizens. Nevertheless, it is more appropriate to consider Ukraine as the legal successor of both the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR, although the existence of Ukraine as part of the USSR from 1932 to the end of the 1980s was undoubtedly a period of occupation, although in earlier years the majority of the population considered this entity an independent country, and the leadership of the republic blackmailed the leadership of the USSR by withdrawing from the federation. We know what happened in the 1930s to change these ideas and efforts.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
See Also this article.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Did you see somewhere that I called you to this page? Why are you interfering in a discussion with another user? I clearly wrote to you: if you have questions for me about the content of a certain article, write to me from the discussion page of that article and I will decide for myself whether it is appropriate for me to continue the discussion with you there or to ignore your ping.
Also, Linuxator gave you a great example with Gandhi. India was part of the empire for a certain period, but was not part of Britain, similarly, Ukraine was part of the empire for a certain time, but was not part of Russia itself. As for the USSR, the Ukrainian SSR was constitutionally an independent state within the USSR with all the nominal attributes of a state, citizenship and the right to leave the union. And the USSR fell apart not when Russia or any other republic left, but precisely when Ukraine left. This confirms that it is Ukraine that has more rights to legal succession from the USSR. This is how the union with Ukraine with the rights of a protectorate with Moscovia turned this united state into the Russian Empire, because the term Russia was synonymous with the concept of Ukraine and not at all synonymous with the concept of Moscovia until the beginning of the 19th century. However, there is no need for me to write here during these discussions.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:26, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
These are historical facts, and I am not obliged to cite sources here. Regarding the articles, no credible sources were provided by anonymous to change the content of the article. Similarly, the article lacks other such sources. In addition, there is also the concept of falsity of sources, because often certain characteristics are used by persons who are not oriented in the topic or have corrupt involvement. You can cite as many pseudo-sources as you want, that Ukraine sold "Kolchuga" to Iraq or missiles to North Korea or destroyed the Kakhovska dam or sent killer mosquitoes to Russia, but no matter how solid the media spreads misinformation, it will have nothing to do with the truth. And this is the main thing - the truth, not a false source.
See also:
Unfortunately, in that country, the interests of which you so passionately defend, the truth has no weight and almost no one hears the truth and no one wants to know the truth. Everyone who told or tells the truth is killed, put behind bars, repressed or forced to leave, all truthful sources are classified or destroyed. If you like this way of life, live it and you will not force others to fall in love with lies and tell everyone that war is peace or truth is a lie.-- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:55, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
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I returned the adequate version of the pages, and you return the odious version of the anonymous troll, destroying the veracity of the articles, so it is you who are primarily subject to the rule regarding the editing of so-called controversial articles. However, there is no controversy here, because all adequate people know that Kharkiv, Kyiv or Odesa were and will be Ukrainian cities & the affiliation of these cities to Ukraine is confirmed by a number of UN resolutions, to which empire they were not forcibly included during the historical process. -- Yasnodark ( talk) 13:05, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
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