On Jul 24, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
My wife was into science fiction. She always bought these every year:
https://us.macmillan.com/series/yearsbestsciencefiction/
After she died, I took boxes of them to the AAUW book sale.
She also tried to convince me Dune was great literature. I have
nothing against SF, but that’s not my idea of a good time. When I
was a kid I liked reading Jules Verne. And watching Flash Gordon in TV.
There are some underrated old sci fi movies, like Forbidden Planet,
Enemy Mine, The Day The Earth Stood Still. Many movies were based on
novels. You could track down the books. I remember reading On The
Beach.
I used to watch stuff like Twilight Zone, I must be too lazy to
read. Maybe I need a cognitive test. Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/hwqglc/person_woman_man_camera_tv_hotdog/
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Mark Radabaugh
*Sent:* Friday, July 24, 2020 9:11 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bored
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
<mailto: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.
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