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Fire Lance is very topical right now. I'd love to see a movie version of it, but preferably fictional.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i feel like that working mat is the perfect background for those books (i've never read them, i'm just going by the covers) Very 80s future, evoking a feeling of wireframe graphics and such, yes.
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Mar 1, 2022 11:43
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Do the Destroyermen novels count as Nautical Sci-Fi?
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Mar 7, 2022 23:34
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Fivemarks posted:Do the Destroyermen novels count as Nautical Sci-Fi? I say yes. Pretty good too. The weird alien setting is an alternate Earth, the ships go on water and not in space, the advanced technology is WW2 level.... apart from that it's a better milSF space opera than most. Exploration, diplomacy, base building, upteching, pitched battles... Also the series is actually concluded now. And I don't think the author is any kind of fash either. He pointedly rejects the whole "hard men making hard choices" thing.
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Mar 9, 2022 20:39
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Groke posted:I say yes. Pretty good too. The weird alien setting is an alternate Earth, the ships go on water and not in space, the advanced technology is WW2 level.... apart from that it's a better milSF space opera than most. Exploration, diplomacy, base building, upteching, pitched battles... I mean, there's Silva. And Silva doesn't let himself make the choices because he doesn't trust himself to- he trusts people he knows are better people than him to make the choices.
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Mar 9, 2022 22:47
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Once you spot that 'hard men making hard choices' fash theming you really do see it way too often.
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Mar 10, 2022 06:56
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Once you spot that 'hard men making hard choices' fash theming you really do see it way too often. Absolutely. In these books, though, there is for example the subplot with the deathkudzu thing that could wipe out enemy populations completely, and this one guy who wants to use it is denied; and in the end it turns out that even the most implacable enemy can stop being an enemy and learn other ways to interact than "kill everything".
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Mar 10, 2022 09:40
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https://twitter.com/domykc/status/1341192522849112070
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Jun 7, 2022 20:31
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when it isnt 2:30 am im going to write an effortpost on why everyone should read the boats of the glen-carrig
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I'd be down for Homeworld: Underwater Edition
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