Posted on 09/23/2016 4:39:22 AM PDT by Politically Correct
In case you missed the first thread. All three books in the trilogy are free this weekend starting today the 23rd of September.
If someone likes Christian sci-fi, though these aren’t free, I also recommend “Infinite Space, Infinite God” and “Infinite Space, Infinite God 2” the anthologies.
They do have a Catholic bent.
I recommend Heinlein’s Star Ship Troopers, [it is required reading by all Marines Cpl & below, even though just about all Marines have read it]
Bkmk
Think Al Gray put “ENDER’S GAME” on the reading list. Ender’s leadership though excellence and flexibility in the battle room was a perfect tie-in with the maneuver warfare push (William Lind)at the time and made it a great fit.
Cheers!
KYPD
Only free for the weekend?
ENDER’S GAME — great book. Gets the brain working.
AAAAAAnd need more coffee, saw “STARSHIP TROOPERS” and thought “ENDER’S GAME”
Apologies ...
KYPD
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Great books!
Science Fiction books to read would be ones with James T. Kirk in them as he is god like..... : )
Horrible movie. I assume the book was better.
That Hideous Strength is cited:
Description IN A LETTER CONCERNING C.S. LEWIS’S WORKS, his dear friend J.R.R. Tolkien makes an observation about the prevalence of dualism in Lewis’s fiction: “I noticed, for the first time consciously, how dualistic Lewis’ mind and imagination [were], though as a philosopher his reason entirely rejected this. So the pun Hierarchy/Lowerarchy. And of course the ‘Miserific Vision’ is rationally nonsense, not to say theologically blasphemous” (371). In this letter, however, Tolkien blurs the distinction between two different types of dualism: a philosophical dualism, the dualism that Tolkien says Lewis’s reason rejects, and narrative dualism (a term of my own coinage and defined in the following paragraphs), which serves as a literary device. Although Lewis rejects philosophical dualism, he employs narrative dualism in his fiction, namely in That Hideous Strength; there Lewis uses the device paradoxically to lead Mark and Jane, the novel’s two protagonists, to a unity of purpose and marital harmony by means of their separate experiences in the camps of Logres and the N.I.C.E. In Mere Christianity, Lewis defines philosophical dualism as “the belief that there are two equal and independent powers at the back if everything, one of them good and the other bad, and that this universe is the battlefield in which they fight out an endless war” (42). He goes on to say that “[t]he two powers, or spirits, or gods—the good one and the bad one—are supposed to be quite independent. [...] Neither of them made the other, neither of them has the right to call itself God” (42). With this philosophical dualism, as Tolkien states, Lewis did not agree; he believed that the opposing forces, good and evil, right and wrong, were neither matching in power nor did they equally deserve to exist. He believed, as he says in Mere Christianity, that “one of the two powers is actually wrong and the other actually right,” and “what we mean by calling them good and bad turns out to be that one of them is in a right relation to the real ultimate God and the other is a wrong relation to Him” (43). One should note, however, that although Lewis did not believe in dualism as a religion in itself or as part of his own Christianity, he maintains that dualism is almost a part of Christianity.
Zoroastrian dualism in the east: Ahura Mazda vs Ahriman.
In the west, Manicaeism.
The book was, in fact, orders of magnitude better.... The move did catch some of the high points...flexibility, winning future battles by decisive current victories, leadership through excellence. They did junk up the movie a bit, Ender was 6 when he graduated from earth to the battle school. There was no doubt as to the damage he inflicted, and the results of that damage, on his human antagonists (movie held back results until later...).
Book’s worth a read...the follow ups...
KYPD
The book and movie are completely different in ideology. Even the story line was changed.
Heinlein was in absolute genius mode when he wrote that book.
Transcient Singularity by Eric Tokajer. Time travel.
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
I reread these on a regular basis. That Hideous Strength is my favorite.
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