Post B1iFT6iSfLlpFnjBWC by mycotropic@beige.party
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(DIR) Post #B1gn5ZSn8nwhaTQXkO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-27T23:32:55Z
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@RanaldClouston @bookstodon Since he was writing about 50s army guys I just assumed that's how they were... kind of ... you know... wooden.
(DIR) Post #B1gnUbvr6DMiU2xfWK by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-12-27T23:37:29Z
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@futurebird @RanaldClouston @bookstodon His writing of heterosexual men definitely fell into the “how do you do fellow straight manly men?” territory, like Holt on Brooklyn 99. But yes, when will we get a true Rendezvous With Rama movie? One that isn’t somehow turned into a action-packed romp?
(DIR) Post #B1iFT3hzqccFvUUGsS by mycotropic@beige.party
2025-12-28T00:16:21Z
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@RanaldClouston @rk @futurebird @bookstodon Please don't get me started on Heinlein......
(DIR) Post #B1iFT5acqzuNlD3PfM by WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online
2025-12-28T00:31:34Z
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@mycotropic @RanaldClouston @rk @futurebird @bookstodon Free* love, man.*Terms and orientations may apply.
(DIR) Post #B1iFT6iSfLlpFnjBWC by mycotropic@beige.party
2025-12-28T16:06:13Z
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@WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @futurebird @bookstodon I get that aspect, for me it's more about how all of the women characters he writes could be summed up as "guys with tits*" . I absolutely loved Heinlein when I was a 14 year old kid, LOVED his books. Then I reread one in my late twenties and couldn't understand why the love didn't return. It took me a great deal of contemplation to discover that he was apparently writing FOR 14 year old boys. I guess that once you have friends who are a different gender/sex/orientation that the appeal fades.*Huge ones that are always perky and never in the way.
(DIR) Post #B1iFT7Q43EeHR280Tw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T16:25:32Z
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@mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon You see this is why I like an Adrian Tchaikovsky book. He has a thing for mean old highly intelligent somewhat terrifying women. A Thing.
(DIR) Post #B1iMBGanuEk4LsaOnY by mycotropic@beige.party
2025-12-28T17:40:53Z
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@futurebird @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon I've never read that author, do you have a suggestion for where to start? I like series set in a universe with a purpose these days. I love the Sten series as an example, also The Night’s Dawn Trilogy by Peter Hamilton.
(DIR) Post #B1iMQAuFKXJp3kmyO0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T17:43:34Z
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@mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon I like most of the Adrian Tchaikovsky series, but I'm not certain what to recommended. Would you like more of a romp (he writes space pirates in a way) or something with a bit more meaning and depth?What do the other people who read #AdrianTchaikovsky think?
(DIR) Post #B1iMwCXYn3DbOVRtke by shauna@social.coop
2025-12-28T17:49:20Z
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@futurebird @mycotropicI've only read Children of Time but I loved it
(DIR) Post #B1iNHZMN8uYqFVPAlk by fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-12-28T17:53:14Z
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@futurebird @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon I’d be curious to know too! The only Tchaikovsky I’ve read is Doors of Eden, which was a very enjoyable yarn.As for space opera that can be enjoyed by others than 14-year old boys (I have that same relationship to Heinlein — loved him as a teenager, loathed him as an adult), I most recently read the first two books of Bethany Jacob’s Kindom Trilogy. Most excellent page turner! Also, the Teixcalaan books by Arcady Martine are very good.
(DIR) Post #B1iNR5yjEjoI1Jt8T2 by superflippy@mastodon.xyz
2025-12-28T17:54:56Z
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@futurebird @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon I like both Peter Hamilton & Adrian Tschaikovsky, and I think Children of Time is a good book of his to start with, but if you want something shorter & simpler, his book Alien Clay is a great standalone novel.
(DIR) Post #B1iNZ9IUmV7Qd7yT3Y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T17:56:26Z
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@superflippy @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon Alien Clay has the most substance of his books and I was very impressed. But don't assume he's always so serious. Many of his books are fun.
(DIR) Post #B1iNfM646cw6447TdI by Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange
2025-12-28T17:57:32Z
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@futurebird @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon Here is a handy list to pick from. The Children of Time series is excellent. The Final Architecture series is very good. The Tyrant Philosophers series is spectacular. I've read several of the standalone books which were good but not as engrossing as the series.
(DIR) Post #B1iNpZACNZMNUBvDSS by superflippy@mastodon.xyz
2025-12-28T17:59:22Z
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@futurebird @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon The Children of Time series definitely has a lot of fun in it. But it also has some mentally tough parts that challenged me.
(DIR) Post #B1iNqVNJwwJq1gVVxo by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-28T17:59:24Z
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I just read _Shroud_ and it had nail biting adventure and vivid characters and sharp social commentary and a *great* alien ecology. Fine as a standalone. @futurebird @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon
(DIR) Post #B1iR45PHb0IpP4anxo by mycotropic@beige.party
2025-12-28T18:35:35Z
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@futurebird @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon Start with pirates, that's a Chris Bunch thing and I'm in the second book of the Lost Legion series at the moment. I love me some Neil Stephenson as well but I always have a hard time actually finishing one of his tomes!Thanks!