tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post7666036570416366158..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: News vs. LawsTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-19314667189785149172018-03-04T19:57:52.673-05:002018-03-04T19:57:52.673-05:00What about "The Star Fox" or "Fire ...What about "The Star Fox" or "Fire Time?"Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-23168372607439050692018-03-04T19:37:56.466-05:002018-03-04T19:37:56.466-05:00I haven't read much Anderson (couple of the En...I haven't read much Anderson (couple of the Ensign Flandry stories, <i>The Night Face</i>), but I second the recommendation based on what I have read.Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-46763863286126030862018-03-04T18:49:22.814-05:002018-03-04T18:49:22.814-05:00Poul Anderson was one of the greatest SF writers o...Poul Anderson was one of the greatest SF writers of all time. I recommend his Time Patrol stories, esp. "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" and "Star of the Sea." other novels and stories that I liked were: <br /><br /><i>The Enemy Stars<br />The High Crusade<br />After Doomsday<br />The Dancer from Atlantis<br />The Boat of a Million Years</i><br /><br />"No Truce with Kings" (in <i>Time and Stars</i>)<br />"In Memoriam"<br />"Uncleftish Beholding" (both in <i>All One Universe</i>)<br />"In the House of Sorrows" (in <i>What Might Have Been, vol. 1</i>)TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-66959709384212316072018-03-04T10:48:09.514-05:002018-03-04T10:48:09.514-05:00*at*atWill Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-6048540261686249622018-03-04T10:47:47.293-05:002018-03-04T10:47:47.293-05:00Another thing. Would any of you recommend the book...Another thing. Would any of you recommend the books of Poul Anderson? I have Tau Zero, but I've been reading that he's athl his best in creating believeable alien species and cultures. What do any of you think?Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-22542794548347558282018-03-04T00:05:09.052-05:002018-03-04T00:05:09.052-05:00Eh, lot of pulp is pretty cringe-y in places. All ...Eh, lot of pulp is pretty cringe-y in places. All the women in the Conan stories, with I think only two exceptions (Valeria and Bêlit), are rape-victims (though not victims of rape by Conan), solely to artificially fulfill the taboo-trope that forbade heroes in adventure-fiction "spoiling" virgins. Because hooking up with the mentally-broken victims of human trafficking is <i>so</i> much better. The treatment of blacks in "Shadows in Zamboula" and "The Vale of Lost Women" is like something out of <i>Birth of a Nation</i>.<br /><br />Always remember, the late-19th to mid-20th century was so bad, people not actually clinically psychotic fell for late-20th to early-21st century lunacy. ("How bad was early industrialism? So bad people mistook Karl Marx for an economist and historian.")Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-29340367019880088072018-03-03T22:37:27.445-05:002018-03-03T22:37:27.445-05:00So say the mythologizers of the Late Modern Age. B...So say the mythologizers of the Late Modern Age. But then they weren't there, were they? TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-2483590140279787552018-03-03T21:31:34.907-05:002018-03-03T21:31:34.907-05:00In the era of pulp fiction, that is.In the era of pulp fiction, that is.Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-46092930933814208132018-03-03T21:30:16.318-05:002018-03-03T21:30:16.318-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-38037671913647208512018-03-03T21:25:55.380-05:002018-03-03T21:25:55.380-05:00After reading up on Farmer, it seems to me that he...After reading up on Farmer, it seems to me that he wrote a lot in a style similar to the pulp fiction stories, so perhaps that explains why his writing could be taken as racist and misogynistic, considering that women and minorities weren't supposedly treated in high regard.Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-34243437968871855052018-03-03T21:16:56.977-05:002018-03-03T21:16:56.977-05:00...Somehow I doubt Philip Jose Farmer is a more ra......Somehow I doubt Philip Jose Farmer is a more racist or more sexist writer than N. K. Jemisin, given she makes Hiroyuki "Springtime for Tojo—IN SPACE!" Morioka look like a sane person.<br /><br />I haven't read enough of either to compare "sloppiness", though. Maybe the reviewers just really dislike psychedelia?Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-73087379508094457232018-03-03T19:42:26.288-05:002018-03-03T19:42:26.288-05:00Ok, I was looking to buy it and some of the review...Ok, I was looking to buy it and some of the reviews I read was that it is the worst winner of the hugo award for best novel.Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-50974948057576830612018-03-03T18:17:59.578-05:002018-03-03T18:17:59.578-05:00I read it many years ago and enjoyed it, although ...I read it many years ago and enjoyed it, although its premise was distinctly fantasy. TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-28478543522220724312018-03-03T17:26:35.301-05:002018-03-03T17:26:35.301-05:00Mr. Flynn, you're a science fiction expert, ri...Mr. Flynn, you're a science fiction expert, right? Tell me, is "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer any good?Will Worrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11474218905669062219noreply@blogger.com