Heinlein hasn’t aged as well as I would have expected. Some great ideas but the sex bits appealed a lot more to a teenage male than they do some 40 years later.
Asimov has held up very well - as good today as it was when it was written. For newer SciFi: I absolutely love Dan Simmons “Hyperion Cantos”. A bit slow to start but a fantastic work. Don’t start it if you have other things you need to do. The “Imperial Radch” series by Ann Leckie is also one of my very favorites. A bit hard to wrap your head around at first but once you figure it out it’s excellent. If you want something that’s just a plain fun easy read - “Old Man’s War” by John Scalzi is a concept straight out of Heinlein’s style, with a slightly different twist on the sexuality. Mark > On Jul 24, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I liked Heinlein's Starship Troopers. > > The idea that citizenship is not a birthright but something you earn through > service to society was interesting food for thought. It's not something we > could do realistically, but it was interesting to think about. On the other > hand, the idea that every soldier takes care of his own logistics is pretty > dumb though. Heinlein must have found it objectionable to have more people > in the rear echelon than you have actual fighters, but frankly modern wars > are won by logistics. Having more soldiers is irrelevant if they don't have > food, ammo, clothing, and fully working equipment; and expecting every Gomer > Pile to take part in every aspect of that would be dumb. > > Puppet Masters wasn't bad either. It spawned the whole body snatching > subgenre in sci fi. > > > > On 7/24/2020 4:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> I get Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair confused. Didn’t really like either >> of them. Been a while since I read any Bradbury or Heinlein. >> >> From: Ken Hohhof <> >> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:01 PM >> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored >> >> I talked to an old college friend the other day, he had just read and was >> recommending “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. >> >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On >> Behalf Of Adam Moffett >> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:54 PM >> To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored >> >> Books are better. >> >> I found the 1911 edition of the Boy Scouts Handbook enlightening. The views >> expressed by the author(s) are a glimpse into a different time. It also >> discusses survival and outdoor skills in broad terms. If you tried to build >> a bow or a log cabin from the instructions in that book you'd have to do a >> lot of your own figuring to fill in the blanks, but maybe that's the whole >> point, and maybe that's the piece we're missing from society today. Like >> maybe the journey of figuring out the precise techniques to carve the >> notches into the logs is a better experience than emulating a you-tuber who >> shows you every single step. >> >> My other recent recreational book was the National Audubon Society Field >> Guide to North American Trees. I lived 40 years on this earth only ever >> learning a handful of major tree types (Oak, Maple, etc). I'm embarrassed >> to say I was calling every needle leafed tree a "pine" for most of those >> years. I finally decided to educate myself on the topic. >> >> >> >> On 7/24/2020 3:29 PM, <>ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> I am not much of a sports fan... I thought. But with no sports on I am >> really missing them. I would at times catch part of a game to pass the >> time. That option is gone for the moment and there nothing but crap on to >> watch... Need a good book I guess. >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com>
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