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a more formal beehaw introduction thread (beehaw.org)
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the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the "how was your week" thread isn't a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples' posts aren't getting lost.

tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don't gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this'll be a good way of getting to know all the people you're now on here with

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[–] GooseDwarf@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi there, Nice to meet everyone.

I go by GooseDwarf, I'm a tech enthusiast, who also enjoys video games, tabletop games, and reading SciFi and Fantasy. Like many others, I'm working on leaving Reddit, and after seeing people mention Lemmy, and seeing Beehaw at the top of the recommended, decided to give this community a try.

[–] StringTheory@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have a favorite sci-fi or fantasy author to recommend? (I am deeply entrenched in Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Ursula le Guin.)

[–] GooseDwarf@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Terry Pratchett is my go to for fantasy, I absolutely adore Discworld. A series I don't hear about as much though, is the Dragon Weather trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I highly recommend it!

As far as scifi, I'm mostly in a cyberpunk kick at the moment. I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was quite good. Other than that, I can recommend William Gibson, with the sprawl trilogy that helped define modern cyberpunk.

As far as more traditional scifi, aside from Adam's, whose work is amazing, I enjoy the Ender's Game series, but acknowledge that Card was a bit problematic, especially with his later writing having more Mormon beliefs shining through. I also am a fan of Andy Weir's The Martian and Project Hail Mary. They're entertaining, but some people don't like how they perceive his writing to be full of deus ex machina. I enjoy seeing how his characters overcome the problems.

I've never heard of Ursula Le Guin, I'll have to check them out

[–] StringTheory@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you! These are great suggestions