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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Your assessment may in all likelihood be true, but as I'll never read the book, I'll probably never know.
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Mm-hum. Starship Troopers is something everyone should read. Like Ender's Game (although not it's sequels), it's far less important that it is sci-fi than it is an important story.
"I'd like to claify that Orwell was not pro socialist"
Neither are MacLeod's Star Fraction books. They discuss various forms of anarchy, communism and collective societies. And... your blunt dismissal of a lot of authors is saying a lot to me about your taste in reading.
This
isn't a slam - I personally don't have any problems reading pulp scifi and I have much the same reaction as you...but to Fantasy books (and indeed, most comics*). I find scifi, even pulp scifi, tends to far less addicted to generic and predictable story structures than even low fantasy, let alone high fantasy. What I think about Tolkien is unprintable (well it's not, it's just rude, but yea hype
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*I like
The Authority. This probably says a lot about me. I don't care
Scifi's "what if's" endlessly fascinate me.
*Goes back to reading
Hospital Station*