[Perdogg]

ping

[cripplecreek]

I’m rereading the Edgar Rice Burroughs Venus series now.

I didn’t recognize it when I read it as a teenager but its an anti communist story.

[Cicero]

Thanks for the tip. I haven’t read any John C. Wright, but I’ve just ordered his Chaos trilogy from Amazon, in used paperbacks. Looks promising.

[HMS Surprise]

Heinlein would be required reading if I were a high school English teacher. My English teacher had us read The Puppet Masters and I think read it 5 more times over the summer.

[SatinDoll]

Back in the mid-1980s while I was in the U.S.Navy, I bought a sci-fi anthology that featured all female authors. I also bought a couple more sci-fi novels written by men. Who had written what didn’t matter to me until I got into the anthology and found some of the short stories were about lesbians.

I’m not interested in the stories of lesbians or other homosexuals. This would include others, such as straights, involved in S&M - not interested.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Mel Brooks on Blazing New Comedic Trails in ‘Blazing Saddles’
https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-news/mel-brooks-on-blazing-new-comedic-trails-in—blazing-saddles-215405381.html

“They can’t make that movie today because everybody’s so politically correct. You know, the NAACP would stop a great movie that would do such a great service to black people because of the N-word,” says Brooks. “You’ve got to really examine these things and see what’s right and what’s wrong. Politically correct is absolutely wrong. Because it inhibits the freedom of thought. I’m so lucky that they weren’t so strong then and that the people that let things happen on the screen weren’t so powerful then. I was very lucky.”

[AZLiberty]

Neither William F. Buckley nor even Winston Churchill could win a college debate by the rules used today.

College Wins US Debate Championship By Repeating the N-Word Over and Over, Speaking Incomprehensibly

[Usagi_yo]

Starship troopers is a bit dated today. It’s Jingoism at it’s finest. Today’s U.S you can’t even be an otherwise law abiding citizen and not offend somebody.

I read a lot of his books. Entertaining, easily understood if a bit over the top but his style and my tastes evolved over time.

I mean who doesn’t like: “An armed society is a polite society”?

[spankalib]

bkmk

[Excellence]

icrbfl

[PapaBear3625]

One of the subjects of the Hugo controversy, Larry Correia, has an article on the subject

[MarkL]

I salute you for having better things to do with your time than read stories about space princesses being rescued from bug-eyed monsters by stalwart and clean-limbed fighting men of Virginia

I learned to read thanks to Edgar Rice Bourhoughs, John Carter, and Tarzan!

Mark