Andre Norton and E E Doc Smith two of favorites....my dad bought us some books from an estate sale in the 60s... Original Ted Scott and Nancy Drew mysteries.
Star Rangers...so many of the themes and devices in this 1953 book were and are used in movies... *Star Rangers*, first published in 1953 as *The Last Planet*, is one of Andre Norton’s earliest science fiction novels, but in terms of the chronology of her various universes, it’s one of the last. It’s a novel of the end of empire, a theme that she came back to again and again through the Fifties, and revisited in different ways through the rest of her career. It’s also a novel about human diaspora and lost Earth, and perhaps most timely of all for 2019, it’s a novel about refugees and racism. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 9:12 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I saw the 80's Dune movie first. Later I read the book and was surprised > that I couldn't find any reference to the "Weirding module". It seemed to > be a big deal in the movie, but the book didn't seem to mention it at all > and instead put a lot of emphasis on hand to hand combat. --because > apparently their force fields are proof against normal bullets and > artillery, and if you shoot lasers at them both the gun and the shield > explode and nobody wins. So knife fighting was the only thing left. > On 7/24/2020 11:07 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > First three Dune books are pretty good. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> > <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> <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> <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> 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> <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> <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> <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 > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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