Scalzi books are good. I liked Lock In, still working through his others. I am really looking forward to “Ready Player Two”, later this year.
> On Jul 24, 2020, at 20:11, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: > > 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> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh >>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 4:15 PM >>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <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> 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 > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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