So y’all were supposed to find me some other good SciFi books. There is a lot of SciFi out there but the vast majority of it reads like the narration of a first person shooter. Boring.
Martha Wells “All Systems Red” is amusing. Mark > On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The movie is shit, but apparently it wasn't even supposed to be a Starship > Troopers movie. The original title was "Bug Hunt on Outpost 9". Someone at > the Heinlein estate thought it had too much similarity to Starship Troopers > and there was a legal dispute. The studio agreed to pay licensing to use > Starship Troopers IP. The director had apparently never even heard of the > book and was annoyed at having to rework the movie into the "Starship > Troopers" framework. > > > > On 7/24/2020 5:59 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> Why are people talking about Starship Troopers lately? I’d never heard of >> it. I asked my son what it was about and he said bugs. Bad bugs? Yes. >> Good movie? Stupid movie. >> >> Was it satire? There’s a fine line between satire and stupid. >> >> >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On >> Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh >> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 4:15 PM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bored >> >> 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 >> <mailto: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> >> >> >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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