Favorite Film and TV Characters

[heydaralon]

Alastair Reynolds is where hard sci fi and space opera meet, space opera within the laws of physics.

Revelation Space ftw.

I also enjoy Bill Gibson still, Cyperpunk 2.0 ftw

I read one Alastair Reynolds book, I forget which one but I enjoyed it

I think thats' where I"m going to go on my next sci-fi kick

I honestly envy you, I wish I could read them all again for the first time, Reynolds has a new Revelation Space Trilogy, but, I read them them faster than he can write them, so I'm jonesin again already.

Alastair Reynolds; Demarchists, Conjoiners, Ultras, and their Lighthugger's ftw.

I highly recommend the audiobooks by the way, many are on youtube, all narrated by John Lee, who is one of the best.

You ever read any John M Harrison?

[Smitty-48]

I read one Alastair Reynolds book, I forget which one but I enjoyed it

I think thats' where I"m going to go on my next sci-fi kick

I honestly envy you, I wish I could read them all again for the first time, Reynolds has a new Revelation Space Trilogy, but, I read them them faster than he can write them, so I'm jonesin again already.

Alastair Reynolds; Demarchists, Conjoiners, Ultras, and their Lighthugger's ftw.

I highly recommend the audiobooks by the way, many are on youtube, all narrated by John Lee, who is one of the best.

You ever read any John M Harrison?

No. I very rarely add anyone new to the rotation, because I find most SF to be unreadable crap actually.

My main SF guys are Banks, Reynolds, and Richard Morgan.

[brewster]

No. I very rarely add anyone new to the rotation, because I find most SF to be unreadable crap actually.
My main SF guys are Banks, Reynolds, and Richard Morgan.

Old argument, but you really need to read Pournelle's CoDominium series: human to human infantry action on the ground on distant colony planets in brigade strength with weapons no different from our own. You'd love it. Only really SF portion is FTL. Because it's 'low budget' actions there's not even much air and armor involved.

[Smitty-48]

Meh, I only like the original Starship Troopers.

[Speaker to Animals]

Pournell's books are every bit as good. Heinlein himself fucking loved them. They were good friends.

[brewster]

You'd also love the fact that he thinks hereditary aristocracy is the best form of government. The whole arc of the series is the Terran armed forces decide to abandon Earth as irrecoverably corrupt and establish a space empire based elsewhere.

My favorite detail in the books is the notion that free food is part of the "minimum income" welfare state, but it's all dosed with contraceptives. If you wanna breed, you need to be able to buy your own food.

[GloryofGreece]

You'd also love the fact that he thinks hereditary aristocracy is the best form of government. The whole arc of the series is the Terran armed forces decide to abandon Earth as irrecoverably corrupt and establish a space empire based elsewhere.

My favorite detail in the books is the notion that free food is part of the "minimum income" welfare state, but it's all dosed with contraceptives. If you wanna breed, you need to be able to buy your own food.

Haha. Reminds me of offering the proles a new car if they willingly get fixed.

[brewster]

Haha. Reminds me of offering the proles a new car if they willingly get fixed.

Bet plenty would do it cheaper than that. I mean, you can get someone hit for the cost of a car. Be fun to set up a reverse auction and see how low they'd go.

[Fife]

Non-zero-sum game

[C-Mag]

You'd also love the fact that he thinks hereditary aristocracy is the best form of government. The whole arc of the series is the Terran armed forces decide to abandon Earth as irrecoverably corrupt and establish a space empire based elsewhere.

My favorite detail in the books is the notion that free food is part of the "minimum income" welfare state, but it's all dosed with contraceptives. If you wanna breed, you need to be able to buy your own food.

Haha. Reminds me of offering the proles a new car if they willingly get fixed.

Or the NSA offering free phone charging stations.