2018/11/16 15:41:47
bitflipper
Here she is at just 8 years old...that grin at 2:19 is just too cute. Makes me want to re-read Heinlein's novel "Childhood's End".
 

2018/11/16 17:23:46
ØSkald
Yeah.
I wish I had a daughter like that.
2018/11/16 17:56:09
bayoubill
phiffft! That doesn't sound one bit like Am to me 
2018/11/16 18:26:38
jamesg1213
bitflipper
Makes me want to re-read Heinlein's novel "Childhood's End".
 




Arthur C. Clarke wrote that.
2018/11/16 19:32:46
Wibbles
ØSkald
Yeah.
I wish I had a daughter like that.




Step 1: marry a Japanese woman.*
Step 2: see step 1.
 
 
* This the wholesome, censored, family values version.
2018/11/16 21:50:29
ØSkald
1. Japanese women don't like bearded guys that much.
2. Japanese women don't care much about sex.
3. Japanese women don’t like people who speak their mind to much.
4. Japanese women have generally higher standards of guys than I am.
5. You can newer trust a Japanese woman.

2018/11/24 16:04:47
bitflipper
jamesg1213
bitflipper
Makes me want to re-read Heinlein's novel "Childhood's End".

 
Arthur C. Clarke wrote that.




Well, I guess it has been awhile...I think I was 13 when I last read it. That was, um, more than a decade ago.
 
Every time I run across a video of another wunderkind, it reminds me of the book's premise.
 




2018/11/26 16:18:50
Bristol_Jonesey
I thought for a minute you meant Tina S:
 
https://www.google.co.uk/...63j0i22i30.26w5QPeeFLA
2018/11/26 18:17:55
Wayfarer
bitflipper
Makes me want to re-read Heinlein's novel "Childhood's End".


A somebody already mentioned, that was Clarke. I really liked that book the first time I read it but not nearly so much upon the second reading. Still good, but not great. I think his great novels are The City and the Stars and 2001 (which was way better than the film, although I also liked that too).
 
Some other exceptionally good sci-fi novels I liked were:
 
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity
Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Orson Scott Card - Ender Quartet (although he has way too much narration)
 
Bill
2018/11/26 21:28:12
bitflipper
Canticle for Leibowitz was one that blew my young mind when I read it at around 12 or 13. Also the Foundation trilogy, and pretty much everything else from Asimov. Ender's Game was another. I'd forgotten the title of City and the Stars, but never forgot the awesome story. Rendezvous with Rama, another thought-provoker, as well as Larry Niven's Ringworld series. 
 
I had to wait until I was 18, after discovering psychedelics, before anything matched the mind-expanding experience of reading those sci-fi greats of the 50's, 60's and 70's.
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