Eddie van Dijk
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Eddie van Dijk
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Writer of and about science-fiction and fantasy. Lover of stories in all media. Something of a historian (I'll finish my master thesis some day). Member of the board of the NCSF (Dutch sciencefiction society). Also an IT professional.
Well, that's a smart bit of advertising. And it's heartening and telling dat "no AI" is becoming a selling point.
January 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Exactly. Either we are a post-singularity species several times over or the concept is bullshit to begin with. The concept is predicated on the idea that our rate of societal change is a one of a kind occurrence in history and it very clearly isn't.
January 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Het gebruik van gereedschap bij zoogdieren en vogels is meestal cultureel, dat wil zeggen aangeleerd gedrag dat wordt overgedragen van generatie op generatie.

Het kan natuurlijk ook aangeboren gedrag zijn. Ik vermoed dat dit het geval is bij deze insecten... maar zo niet...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Thanks for doing this thread. I'm really enjoying it so I hope you keep going!
December 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We decided to abbreviate it to HSF. A member of our organization suggested it could stand for "Horror, Science-Fiction and Fantasy" so that's currently the semi-official meaning for the acronym. Which also makes it a great name for a convention focused on Horror, Science-Fiction and Fantasy.
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
* HSFCon is named after the magazine published quarterly by the NCSF, the HSF. It used to stand for Holland SF, but because the current board of the NCSF is comprised mostly of members from outside Dutch provinces other than North or South Holland...
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Obviously she breaks out and swears revenge. And in her pursuit of that vengeance she becomes, in the eyes of the world, the dark one.
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The chosen-one "saves" the world, but to do so he has to do horrible stuff to the people he loves. One of those people being his sister in law, who is turned into a monster by his actions and locked away in a dungeon.
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tales of Berseria is part of the long-running "Tales of..." jRPG series. It combines a Count of Monte Cristo like revenge story with an inversion of the dark-one/chosen-one trope.
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Unlike what LLMs proponents want us to believe, there's no guarantee that Large Language Models won't be thrown on the thrash heap of history like so many other technologies before. In fact, there's plenty of reasons to think LLMs are destined for that fate. But that's a topic for another thread.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I could go on and on (and seriously, get a beer in me and I will). But the point it that today's seemingly inevitable technological development might be tomorrow's "Zipdrives, what the hell are those?"
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Or because it turns out the negatives outweigh the benefits. Like how asbestos is a great fire retardant material, but using it in construction turned out to be a big mistake.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Or because industrialization and automation made certain skills obsolete. There's furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries that we just can't reproduce today because we've lost a lot of woodworking knowledge during the industrial revolution.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Or because something better came along, like floppy disks being replaced by CDs, then DVDs, then Blu-rays, then online storage and streaming.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It's a messy process, with technologies being abandoned all the time for all sorts of reasons. It might be because the resources for it aren't available any more, like concrete when the fall of the (western) Roman Empire disturbed trade routes.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Could you post a link to the actual article for those who want to read the whole thing?
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The novel I'm working on (and am posting about here) is Fantasy, secondary world and (hopefully) in the subgenre Adrian Tchaikovsky dubbed "Fantastical realism".

I'm also working on an urban fantasy adjacent short story.

My only published story to date is historical fantasy/alternate history.
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Because I still (despite 45 years of mostly witnessing evidence to the contrary) believe that humanity is inherently decent, I think that after the LLM hype has blown over there will be more appreciation for human-made art in our society.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM