Tomorrow at 2pm Pacific Time, the crew here at Freethoughtblogs are going to talk about some of the books we’ve read, with a focus on what we can learn for our own societies from them.
(Note: I’ve been really terribly sick today, but I think it’s one of those 24 hour things, so I hope I’ll be in shape to participate. Should be.)
RESCHEDULED: We’ll host this podcast on Saturday, 13 September instead.
Have you been following Adam Lee’s review of “The Probability Broach”? The answer is obviously that all our problems would be solved by anarcho-capitalism!
Everything by Ursula K. Le Guin
Babylon 5’s ‘verse – ditto the Whoverse & Trekverse..
Artjhur C Clarke’s Rama series especilly the aliens in the latter books.
Oh & Greg Bear’s Anvil of Stars and Forge of God ifenough others have read those.. See :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_of_Stars
Plus Kim Stanley Robionson’s Mars books on the terraformed future of that planet : As well as Pamela Sargent’s Venus trilogy on the terraforming of that world and developmenst on our one too.
Not really books, dude.
As the kids say you didn’t read the assignment. ;-)
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Nurse not changed your nappy?
also most stuff by John Varley
and quite alot of Larry Niven
@ Silentbob : There’s been novelisations and books of all those too you know?
not the second saturday this time?
Eschaton series by Charles Stross. It could also be cold Space Feudalism sucks.
FWIW I read novels and saw in Primary School a comic about Star Trek : The Original Series long before I actually watched it on TV. Do recall seeing the very first Star Trek : The Next Generation episode tho’ – was briefly on Aussie TV at 7.30 pm~ish when I was a kid. Didn’t keep that timeslot for long sadly.. Nostalgia..
We have several bookcases filled with Star Trek and Star Wars novels, as well as many other science fiction books.
I agree that those novelizations count to include these universes in the discussion.
We just finished buying our tickets for the 60th Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas next summer!
The website touts it as being an important celebration of the DEI policies that Gene Roddenberry espoused in his universe.