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Author: Ray Bradbury

Tags: scifi classic politics science_fiction

2005-10-31

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Author: Orson Scott Card

Tags: scifi war military science_fiction genetic_engineering

2005-10-30

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Authors: Robert A. Heinlein Robert Heinlein

Tags: future scifi classic military science_fiction social robotics

2005-10-30

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Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: technology science_fiction

Description: The Door Into Summer is basically an engineer's daydream. I'm a baby engineer at theThe Door Into Summer is basically an engineer's daydream. I'm a baby engineer at the moment -- first semester mech -- but I've been taking stuff apart since I was old enough to wield a screwdriver, so I can relate quite a bit. Of course, with that comes the "DAMN YOU, HEINLEIN!" moments as he quite matter-of-factly steals the ideas I thought were mine. Foresighted bastard.

Heinlein is one of those very strange author's who can piss me off and stimulate my imagination at the same time. Starship Troopers is in my top five military scifi picks, but when he switches from storytelling to lecturing about what should be (and it's oh so obvious most of the time), I just want to strangle the man. The situation is a little less severe in this book, but the fifties' era attitude towards women -- paternal condescension, mostly -- still leaks through and makes me want to go out and attack the nearest XY. I know, I know, he was a product of his era, but still......

2005-10-30