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Posted by Beavis 2021-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Some of us waved goodbye to the elitists years ago.

Posted by Airandee 2021-08-20 07:02|| 2021-08-20 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Welcome aboard the USS Caine.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-20 07:33|| 2021-08-20 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the true irony of the ascendance of a technologically driven world is that as we move into more unforgiving terrain, replicants and alien predators on Earth, trips to hostile planets as envisioned in Alien and Starship Troopers, human survival will dictate a certain harsh practicality that will leave no room for parlor guessing games about what might work. People like Brennand and Panetta will not be remotely up to the task. A very different type will emerge. With any luck those people will look more like Paul Artreides than Reinhard Heydrich.

But it could go either way...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 08:18|| 2021-08-20 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Harry Seldon, Muad'dib is an a$$hole.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-20 08:26|| 2021-08-20 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Warden Dios in The Gap Into books is my bet...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 08:59|| 2021-08-20 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I once tried to read Donaldson's book. Couldn't

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-20 09:04|| 2021-08-20 09:04|| Front Page Top

#7 He's not for everyone. I've never read any of the Thomas Covenant books. Not my type of story. In interviews, Donaldson is quite bitter about writing and feels he's gotten a bad shake doing it. The Man Who books I still think are quite good...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 09:33|| 2021-08-20 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 And I did organize an email campaign some years back to try to get J. Michael Straczynski to do the Gap Into books as a series of movies ala Babylon 5. Needless to sat I was not successful.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 09:36|| 2021-08-20 09:36|| Front Page Top

#9 In many respects, Donaldson's take on the industry mirrors Harlan Ellison's distaste for how Roddenberry mutilated his screen play for a Star Trek episode that aired as City on the Edge of Forever.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 09:41|| 2021-08-20 09:41|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Different strokes for different folks.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-20 09:47|| 2021-08-20 09:47|| Front Page Top

#11 I just can't get "swords and sorcery." I like hard sci-fi. The market for the former is enormous, almost nil for the latter.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 09:52|| 2021-08-20 09:52|| Front Page Top

#12 City on the Edge of Forever was in many respects a seminal Star Trek episode. Really. Jim Kirk and Joan Collins. Spock does miracles in a distant past. Actual history comes into play. Seldom did so much come together so well in a prime time TV show. Rod Serling was probably even impressed.

I don't even have a TV bundle these days. It's all crap...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 09:57|| 2021-08-20 09:57|| Front Page Top

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