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Mixed Bag Catch-Up (Books I listened to while painting the house)

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

All you Zombies by Robert A Heinlein

The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith

Scary Stories Collection by Alvin Schwarz

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

Somebody's Darling by Larry McMurty

May 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Terminal Boredom – 4/5 Stars A small collection of stories from the science fiction writer Izumi Suzuki. It’s important to note that these stories are selected from a decades long career. This seems to be a first foray into a larger translation project of more of Suzuki’s writing, especially her novels. The stories are mostly subtle, intimate explorations of stories that are running through various science fiction tropes and ideas. These are ideas that are usually fully established in the story before we begin, and […]

Were they truly intelligent?

The Puppet Masters by Robert A Heinlein

October 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

What if I told you that even though the famous film and book version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which is either about Communism or Fascism depending on who you’re asking, was predated by this Robert Heinlein book? I mean it’s obvious common knowledge, but especially for those of us who really really wanted to watch the obviously terrible 90s version of the film with Donald Sutherand and who weren’t allowed to. But also, the novel is….weird as hell, as happens. For one, it’s […]

Sure, we had trouble building Space Station One—but the trouble was people.

Green Hills of Earth by Robert A Heinlein

September 25, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Green I think this completes my Bingo board. Or rather, this completes my Bingo Board. A story collection by Robert A Heinlein published in the 1940s. It’s not simply a collection of stories, but hangs together more so like Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot or Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles as linked stories (thematically at least) about early space exploration, but especially as early space colonization. The stories still mostly hold up and clearly are setting the tone and the scene for a lot of […]

“Mary Sperling, you’re a fool not to marry him!”

Methuseleh's Children by Robert A Heinlein

August 2, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this is a very early Robert A Heinlein novel, but one that I also really liked. So apparently it was first serialized in 1941, but this full edition probably went through a lot of editing and rewrites for its publication in 1958. It takes places a few hundred years in the future, and we find ourselves situated within a commune of humans that through selective breeding have extended human life expectancy to one and a half to two and half times the natural lifespan. […]

I always get the shakes before a drop.

Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein

March 16, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I read this years ago, I think in high school or college and thought it was great. I don’t think it’s nearly as great, but it’s still very good. This is a book about endless war, asymmetrical war, and the dehumanizing process of war on both soldiers and enemy combatants — as well as the cynical ways in which participation in war is seen as a legitimizing, if not the only legitimizing, active part of citizenship, despite how empty warfare is (especially post-WWII). Johnny decides […]

Point Counterpoint, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Show

September 22, 2016 by ingres77 5 Comments

Like the two disconnected eyes of some monstrous oracle, these books look out of their respective time periods, casting forward to try and envision a future that could arise from contemporaneous events. One sings of nationalistic pride in service to the state, while the other firmly declares that war is a pointless and exploitative endeavor whose only benefit is the fostering of an unwieldy bureaucracy feeding on the health of its people. These books are diametrically opposed to one another, but each also serves as […]

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