Heinlein frequently had a Mormon character that was cast in a positive fashion. I really appreciated that.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 24, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: > > 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 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> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett >>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 2:54 PM >>> To: 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 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 >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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