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11/24/2014 at 13:12 • Filed to: None
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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , ttyymmnn wanted Sci-Fi recommendations. My thought is to compare notes, now that I've taken my own advice and read Silverberg's Hawksbill Station, and started on Doc Smith.
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In short, I'd read a bit of Silverberg's Majpoor series, but Hawksbill Station was kind of a different approach to SciFi in general - a prison camp set in the ancient past for political dissidents. A very interesting take - apart from the specifics of the "You Can't Go Back" scenario and some musing about what having no effect on history whatsoever means, it has more in common with a Papillon story than typical genre fiction. Recommended, but only lightly - it doesn't have a lot of panache.
On the other side of the room, I have E. E. "Doc" Smith's Triplanetary. Haven't quite finished it yet, but it's great. Fall of Atlantis? Fall of Rome? WWI? All somewhat resulting from a war between humanoid psychics and unknowable shoggoth-like beings for domination of the universe over tens of thousands of years. It starts with a series of historical-ish vignettes: a secret mission to stave off apocalyptic war in Atlantis, a plot against Nero, a pilot becoming a hero in trench warfare, and a munitions factory - all of which tie together with similar themes from the overarching plan. Similar names, a girl with red hair, etc.
It finally enters its third section In Space with a series of action bits involving a secret agent (who may be the Chosen One the good guys tried to ensure throughout time) and space pirates. Highly recommended: drop in, have fun.
ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/24/2014 at 13:15 |
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Wow. You remembered. I'm on the road right now, but I'll make a note to look back at this when I get the hotel.
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> ttyymmnn
11/24/2014 at 13:20 |
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I should remark that the "war" I mention in Triplanetary is a proxy war. For the evil beings to realize that the "good guys" exist will mean disaster. The theme is that they must raise humanity to be the vector able to oppose the mutable enemy without exposing themselves directly. Atlantis had to be allowed to fall, and so on. Great fun.