Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don’t think we’ve had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.
My daughter just started school. She’s pretty stoked about it, and so are we.
Just drip for now, but I’m going to try it with French press and Aeropress soon.
I enjoy the D&D alignment chart.
World War Z (the book, not the movie) had many memorable moments.
Go to the other side.
By any chance is this from Andrew Tanenbaum?
Hello, fellow ex-IBMer.
Try “The High Crusade” by Poul Anderson. According to ISFDB, it was published in Portuguese as “A grande cruzada”. Good clean fun almost with a touch of slapstick. Another one would be “Three Hearts and Three Lions”, also by Anderson. If he likes them, Anderson has a huge body of work that you can get into.
“The Mansions of Space” by John Morressy might speak to your Dad’s religious sensibilities. However, it’s a little known title and I don’t know if it ever came out in Portuguese. It’s epic in scale but meditative to a certain degree of how God works in mysterious ways. Might be a hit or miss with him, depending on his theology.
Time heals all wounds. Make sure you don’t keep reopening them.
I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.
In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.
This is the type of movement I’ve been looking forward to. I still visit Reddit but not for Reddit’s sake. I go for the high quality subs with tight moderation and good content that are still on Reddit. Once they move out, there’s no reason to stay on.
Like tears…in the rain…
Project Gutenberg has a pretty good science fiction selection, quite extensive in fact that I think it’s better to go by author than by individual works.
For the “classics” there’s H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, aside from Verne and Shelley whom you’ve already mentioned.
There are some surprising names, too, like Jack London, E.M. Forster, and Rudyard Kipling.
For golden age scifi: Frederic Brown, E.E. “Doc” Smith, CM Kornbluth, Jack Williamson, Frederic Pohl, Olaf Stapledon, and Andre Norton. Also, Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.
For your criteria, though, I would recommend looking for the works of Philip K. Dick and H. Beam Piper.
The first Don Quixote book was so popular it spawned a lot of fake sequels. Cervantes killed off Don Quixote in the second book to preclude any more copycats. That’s what I remember anyhow from the preface of a paperback edition from way back.