OT-Sci-Fi Book Review

[Targan]

Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK

Has anyone read the sequel to 'Forever War', 'Forever Peace'.

I knew it existed but I've never read it. I'd hate to be disappointed by it.

Make no mistake I did enjoy the book Starship Troopers. I enjoyed the film too I guess, but it was nowhere near as good as the book and the differences (and the amount by which the differences damaged the film) reminded me of the differences between the book and film versions of The Postman.

Thanks for making this a separate thread Kato!

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Targan

Hey Kato, as we've taken this a bit OT maybe you could please split this Sci Fi book review portion off to its own thread for us?

Done, I was enjoying the thread so Much I did not notice
Thanks for the heads up.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Targan

I knew it existed but I've never read it. I'd hate to be disappointed by it.

Make no mistake I did enjoy the book Starship Troopers. I enjoyed the film too I guess, but it was nowhere near as good as the book and the differences (and the amount by which the differences damaged the film) reminded me of the differences between the book and film versions of The Postman.

Thanks for making this a separate thread Kato!

I can't force myself to call that film Starship Troopers. I can't believe that Robert Heinlein's estate gave the OK for that film. Bunch of moneygrubbers.

[O'Borg]

I've read the book and seen the film, and can't see anything much beyond surface similarities.

But the film is good, clean, switch-off-your-brain bugsplattin' fun. MEDIC!

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I can't force myself to call that film Starship Troopers. I can't believe that Robert Heinlein's estate gave the OK for that film. Bunch of moneygrubbers.

Well, they sold the rights before the film was made.... The Director (being generous) said he hated the book and called it a fascist wet dream that he deliberately quit reading.

[ArmySGT.]

I am working my way through the "Destroyermen" series.

A WW2 U.S. Destroyer that is hopelessly obsolete at the beginning of WW2 sails through a dimensional rift during a fight with IJN forces in a typhoon...

The combatants find themselves on an alternate earth.... a very alternate earth.

It's very entertaining.

[unkated]

There is the Texas-Israeli War: 1999, full of T2K flavor, written in 1974 by Jake Saunders and Howard Waldrop.

in a world depopulated by bio an chem weapons, but where nukes were effectively limited, an Israeli mercenary tank squadron assists the US military in a drive into Texas to put down a rebellion, in exchange for land. (Yes, Texas, the US government WILL come and take away your guns if you revolt).

And, of course, H Beam Piper's Space Viking, with mostly stellar combat, but some groundside encounters. In the far future (2000 years hence), planets originally at the frontier are keeping civilization alive after a general collapse of the Terran Confederation. Those with technology sometimes find it easier to take from those without it...

Poul Anderson's Flandry of Terra. Dominic Flandry is a Bond-esque agent of the Terran Empire, engaged in a cold war against the expansionistic rival empire of the alien Merseians. Very Cold War in Space (written in the 1960s, tough to avoid), includes several novels and novellas.


Uncle Ted

[unkated]

Jerry Pournelle's Falkenberg series (part of the Co-Dominium setting)

• West of Honor
• Mercenary
• Prince of Mercenaries
• Go Tell the Spartans and Prince of Sparta

All fairly realistic decent tales of near-future military exploits. The first three are about a mercenary unit - interestingly written before the 1990s rise of private security firms.

Set in the same universe:

• King David's Spaceship - An adventuring party goes to another planet to recover knowledge of how to build their own space ship.
• The Mote in God's Eye - An excellent tale of first encounter with another species.

Uncle Ted

[Cdnwolf]

Anyone starts mentioning sparkly vampires and the Ban Hammer comes down...

Just finished re-reading "The Forever War" and got me thinking of another series of books that used "real time problems" in space...

Jack Campbell The Lost Fleet

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Targan

I knew it existed but I've never read it. I'd hate to be disappointed by it.

Make no mistake I did enjoy the book Starship Troopers. I enjoyed the film too I guess, but it was nowhere near as good as the book and the differences (and the amount by which the differences damaged the film) reminded me of the differences between the book and film versions of The Postman.

Thanks for making this a separate thread Kato!

Umm I am going to declare myself apostate...... I thought the Movie "The Postman" was better than the book "The Postman" by David Brin.

Something else I would like to see as a Sci Fi mini series.. David Brin's Uplift novels.