Well, obviously "Do Androids dream of electric sheep" simply because the movie left out a little bit too much, which you can catch up on when reading the book. Keyword "Mood Organ".
I also liked "Second variety" which has also been rendered as a audio play IIRC.
And, for the non-sci-fi part, A Scanner Darkly is pretty weird. Has also been rendered as a movie...
Ahh, I dont feel alone, thats nice. I didn't even know Termination Schock. But glancing over the wikipedia page for it, I immediately know this is definitely not my genre. Climate fiction, no thanks.
Many well-known artists have this problem. Heck, my gf went to a K&D concert recently, and she described the same phenomenon. People were ok while the new stuff was being played. And since everyone was obviously waiting for it, they played their hits around the end, which is where the people were most excited. And thats justa a recent example. Some of the really good guys usually play over it, and reinvent themselves, ignoring what their fans want to hear.
That said, I personally also prefer his earlier books. Granted, snowcrash was a young mans fever dream, and you kind of grow out of it. A young ladies illustrated primer? That was kinda cool. Quicksilver? Yeah, an unexpected history lesson woven into a pretty long story. Liked it. But seven eves? No. That one kind of killed my love for his work. I dont know why, but he kind of overdid the long-story-arc thing there.
There are people who are so manipulative and full of hatred that they actually have nobody who is willing to truly grief about their death. My grandma was such a person. I really remember nobody who was fond of her. To the contrary, most people were content that she was finally gone. So please, don't tell others how they are supposed to deal with their peers.
It is hard to see through the unfolding drama. Since I am lacking data (and we all do), I can only fall back to my intuition. When I was listening to Sam being interviewed by Lex, I had to turn the podcast off because I felt I am listening to a deeply flawed and manipulative character. He left a creepy feeling of "Never ever trust this guy".
Please don't speak for people whoes motivation you probably dont fully understand. "Everyone" is always and per definition wrong, absolute statements like this only show that you are going to far and shouldn't be taken seriously.
I am a member of a minority, and I do enjoy jokes about my minority if they're well done and/or hit a nail on the head. Your statement effectively says you dont believe I am a member of "everyone", which is quite condescending.
While I also like GitHub, I make very little use of its web interface. I mostly use gh to interact with the service. But I use markdown to generate document fragments on a daily basis. Claiming a technology is going to fail because the one big player in town has not adopted it yet is... not very open, to say the least.
This looks pretty intersting. Besides, I find it fascinating how jgm apparently is happy on both sides of the "typed language" spectrum. pandoc in Haskell, and djot in Lua. True, pandoc has acquired a lot of Lua in the recent years, but still. I wonder how it feels switching from the cozy safety of a language like Haskell, back to the "good old" interpreter days. I personally have dropped writing anything larger then 1k lines in a dynamic language. Have been bitten by my own inconsistencies too much in the past.
I wonder what someone like jgm has to say about the difference of writing Haskell and Lua.