Seems to me like the staff member should be handed a pink slip.
Germany is run by a scientist and she's been proposed on NPR as being the best politician in the world.
I think that planet that the story takes place on does not orbit it's sun and/or rotate at the same rate the earth does...the decades long winters and summers would be a clue to that...and thus, when a character in the book is, say, 15, that wouldn't be 15 earth years, they would be 15 years old based upon a different time scale.
It's not really Spanish gold, it's Central and South American gold.
Battlefield Earth is by L. Ron Hubbard and was made into a terrible movie starring John Travolta. Time Enough for Love and The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls are both by R. Heinlein. Dhalgren is a famously difficult book to categorize and read; written by S. R. Daleny.
Only if we give it four arms and night vision.
I don't like to lie, but I do like to stretch the truth...saying you've read something when you've read part of something isn't really lying...
I used to say that I had read Brave New World. Then I went back and finished it. Now there's Dhalgren, Time Enough for Love, and Battlefield Earth. I could say the same for The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls, but I don't even bother...no one ever asks.
I agree with you.
I love B5. I liked Jeffrey Sinclair's intro so much better than John Sheridan's even though I laughed at him all through season one. That said, hearing Sheridan during the intro for the following seasons actually made me feel bad for Sinclair; he built the crew, formed the alliances, etc., etc., then he misses out on all of the fun. I don't know...he seemed a bit like a 50's era father who was doing his best to parent in a 2K kind of way...and the show's producers axed him because of it! Ja, ja, he came back, but still...
The main reason people kill each other is not because they are competing for resources. If that was close to being the truth, than even closer to the truth would be that people learn that resources are worth killing over, and closer still would be: the main reason people kill each other is that there is a flaw in their Education.
...get over it, human beings have evolved.
@GregEganist
Is this the story: [www.baenebooks.com]
Sh! ...it's all in your head.
Thanks, but the question is still open.
I'm with you...but that kind of scifi is so pre 80's...correlates with a general focus on doomsday scenarios (both nonfiction and fiction) from which there are only survivors (not even optimistic enough for adapters) who can barely feed themselves.
From what I've seen:
The Good: Another Earth, Battle LA, Contagion, Limitless, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Source Code
The Bad: Atlas Shrugged, Melancholia, Super 8
The Ugly: Captain America, Paul, Hobo with a Shotgun
Two men enter, one man leaves! ;^) Do you remember: Tomorrowmorrowland!
Sorry, but I don't really understand the point trying to be made. Is it that colonialism is a major trope of scifi and that's a problem? Is it that colonialism is the underlying philosophy that informs an author's work and that's a problem? Is is that there are too many white, male and western voices in the scifi world?
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