who's playing this game?
laeshanin:
Quote from: witch on 2005 August 02, 06:03:50
I loved Heinlein when I was a little hippie in the '70's, especially Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love, but I've been going off him ever since. He got seriously weird about incest in his later books and it creeped me out so much I can only read his earlier stuff now. Feminism helped turn me off his theme of old balding hook-nosed blokes who got all the nookie, as well.
"Stranger..." was for me one of the seminal books I've read. A truly remarkable piece of fiction, and though I read some of his other books I noticed that he became somewhat formulaic. Something that Stephen King can be accused of too. Which goes to show you that you should never get too smart/clever/big for decent editing. :)
Many more S/F fans out there?
witch:
Yes, Stranger had a huge impact on me too, especially as it seemed to offer a brave new way of life that fitted in with the hippie ethos. I would agree Heinlein became formulaic, much more elegant way of putting it! ;)
My (younger than me) partner frequents the groklaw site, he was quite surprised I knew the word grok and the origin of it, mind you it might not be his age so much as the fact he reads technical manuals for fun.
One of the things I admired about Heinlein was his incredible brain, I believe he invented waterbeds and waldoes in his books.
I have been a science fiction fan since the age of nine, after the fairies and the myths and legends, there didn't seem any other logical place to go!
cwieberdink:
Quote from: witch on 2005 August 03, 09:25:24
Yes, Stranger had a huge impact on me too, especially as it seemed to offer a brave new way of life that fitted in with the hippie ethos. I would agree Heinlein became formulaic, much more elegant way of putting it! ;)
I loved Stranger, but my FAVORITE Heinlein book was Friday. I can still vividly see it in my mind like a movie. Wow. It was like opening the door into Willy Wonka's candy garden when I read that book..... I think I was about 13.
Chris
dawnkeeper:
I have not an artsy bone in my body. I am a web developer on the programming side. I will have my degree this fall. I love this game though... I guess I fall on the Computer Science side of it. I would fail miserably if left to my own devices on designing a website. I leave that to the artsy folk. Yep, my skills of an artist are sorely lacking.
Come to find out though that there seem to be more artsy web developers than programmers out there. So I am in a bit of demand around where I live. ;D All these designers need someone to do the coding. Works for me. :P
Renatus:
I'm perhaps the only person on Earth who likes Heinlein's Number of the Beast. I'd like it a whole lot better if he hadn't stuck that 4000 year old Gary Stu that is Lazarus Long in, however. I can only take so much of that character. I may also be the only person on Earth who liked I Will Fear No Evil - it wasn't his best and some of it was pretty silly, but I liked that he dealt with gender fluidity. I haven't read many books that do that.
I'm not sure what my favourite book of his is; it's been ages since I've read any of his work because all of the books of his I own are still on another continent. I'm really fond of Starship Troopers though, which baffles me a bit considering I'm a rabble-rousing little punk. ;D
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