The Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon books by Spider Robinson might work for you.

I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.

As absolutely stupid as this is, it’s no different than changing the maps to show Denali rather than Mount McKinley. I don’t think you’re missing anything.

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Our culture phrases damn near everything in metaphors of war. The war on drugs. The battle of the bands. Bob lost his battle with cancer. It’s absolutely pervasive, to the point it’s almost as invisible as the air.

The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.

Hey I’ve seen this movie before… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

The ideas were mostly neat but I just couldn’t abide the plot being driven by absurdly stupid actions over and over.

“The Dark Beyond the Stars” by Frank Robinson might fit for you. It’s set on a generation ship that can’t find a good landing spot.

“The Final Architecture” series by Adrian Tchaikovsky has some elements of this.

It’s kind of like suspension of disbelief. Comes from pro wrestling. It’s a lot like pretending Santa is real when you’re 13 and know it’s not.

Ringworld on HBO with all the rishathra handshakes you can handle would at least hit a niche, I guess

Sheer pandemonium.

Read them all, with the novellas where the tin says they belong. It’s just unrelentingly good.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb

Bad Santa. It’s cynical and hilarious and still ends up weirdly heartwarming.

You can’t go wrong with “they’re made of meat”, or “when the yogurt took over” ( warning, boring boobs for like 2.5 seconds).

https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ?si=9_jCNLRr_4KSfw77

https://youtu.be/lOpvxj_FRN0?si=Aa5_mwVvkrTxWMDb

Also: The World of Tomorrow is top tier scifi.

https://youtu.be/lOpvxj_FRN0?si=Aa5_mwVvkrTxWMDb

Before you pull the trigger on this one, figure out whether your daughter is of an age to understand why the tax agent has butt plug trophies. Not just because it could lead to awkward conversation, but also because if your kid doesn’t have the maturity to grasp that visual pun they won’t get the rest of the movie either.

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