In my younger days I used to consume SF novels as fast as I could acquire them. I am old enough to have been around for the sunset years of the SF greats like Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, etc. The stories they wrote are now antiquated and their plot lines have been copied and done to death countless times. In the late 90s the SF genre was hijacked by Marxists, faggots, and every stripe of sexual degenerate imaginable, and I gave up on SF and started reading other genres…but in time the rot set in on them too. We have largely lost the ability to tell good stories, and what passes for fiction now is largely shitlib propaganda that extols the ‘virtues of neoliberal social justice’.
Hork. Spit.
Today I finished watching the first season of The Three Body Problem on Nutflix. It has all the makings of yet another cinemamatic turd produced by the usual leftist retards. The casting was done by the blue and green haired fatties in the HR department. The heroes are all strong independent girl bosses of ethnic descent. The guys are mostly pot head soys that do what the girls tell them to do. The villains and a few expendable heroes are white guys. In the story the heroes watch CNN for informed unbiased commentary. The black guy has a 200+ IQ. The UN is similarly run by competent diverse statesmen and intellects. Pajeets, mystery meats and chinks face a looming threat from an invasion by superior alien beings and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. If humans are to prevail in this yarn… it will be the vibrants that will be our saviours.
In any SF yarn you have to be able to suspend your sense of disbelief…and this one is no exception. It takes a force of will to accept the foundations of the plot and the theme of the thing. There are technical and scientific inconsistencies in this - the most glaring is the laughable combination of the theoretical solar sail and nuclear bomb modes of space propulsion.
If you can get past the standard nauseating virtue signalling going on…there are actually the beginnings of a story here. Compared to the corn spackled diarrhea that has been spewing from the Hollywood sphincter for over two decades now… this is a literary tour de force not seen in a long, long time. They will have to bring it back for at least one more season and I think I will watch. There is still plenty of opportunity for the usual suspects to chit the bed.
But I am a former SF geek that has been starving for a good story for decades. Is it worth your time? That’s a tough call. Compared to A Canticle For Leibowtz, The Forever War, The Fantastic Voyage… The Three Body Problem rates at a solid ‘C’…maybe a ‘C+’. If you compare it to the crap written by fags like Vox Day, John Scalzi, or Marko Koos… and considering that it was written by a chicken headed liberal oriental woman…this thing is an A+. Everything is relative I guess. 😉
I certainly hope you all are spending your Saturday more productively than I am - can’t see how ya couldn’t! HAR HAR HAR!
Have a great Saturday and thanks for dropping in.
Filthie
I sent my SF novella to 15 people including yours truly. Only 1 person read it and that comeback was "You wrote that?"
ReplyDeleteSF is like buffet, You take from it what you want.
I see that the blog now lts me comment! whoop whoop.
ReplyDeleteHrmmmmm. I did an outhouse critique on an excerpt for WL Emery once - he is probably one of the best unsung authors of our day. I found only the merest nit to pick about it but I don’t know if he ever published it.
DeleteI might have inadvertently deleted it if you sent it to me, Poli. Feel free to re-send it if you still have it. I can’t write myself, and delight in criticizing those who can…😉👍
Thank you for your kind words. I'll send you a copy of my last publication, a story I was happy with.
DeleteYou're quite right about Sci-Fi. Real, straight money Science Fiction is hard to write. Asimov could do it, but he was a scientist (biochemist, I think). I liked Bradbury's stuff, but it verged on Fantasy. I managed a couple space opera stories which Cirsova published, but they weren't true SF.
I too, am/was a sci fi geek, couldn't read it fast enough and then, it became horrid with the freaks, queers, Ranger tabbed 95 pound super wonder woman that can and could curb stomp a 220 pound, fit MMA fighter with one hand tied behind her back and all the damn grotesque oreo pairings and marriages and trying to make me, a superior, intellectual white male look like one of the retard doofuses. Fluck 'em!
ReplyDeleteYup. My rule of bum is, if it’s written by a woman, a vibrant or a fag… I won’t bother with it because it will invariably be a stinker.
DeleteWatched 'Booth at the End'. Not SF, but lets the viewer know, ultimately, everything is your choice! Make it an wise one.
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
That one looks interesting too…I will have to look into it…
DeleteOh, that's what that it is. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteI'll catch some of those 115lbs. wymyns beats up squad of thugs with weapons as fam watches turdflix in the background and LMFAO!
Almost as funny as that Lil' Orphan Annie staring down a bull statue in the steaming hole NYC.
At least Helen Reddy was kind of cute when she was young.
Oh gawd… I’m still laughing about that statue. Shitlibs are real big on symbolism…
DeleteRecommendations:
ReplyDeletePeter Grant (space combat, with a side helping of organized crime) (Peter was a 20 year veteran of the wars in and around South Africa before he became a priest. He has seen the elephant, and eaten it.)
Dorothy Grant (sci-fi military romance that gets nearly everything right) (Yes, she's Peter's wife, and a former Alaskan bush pilot.)
J. L. Curtis (his Rimworld series is great sci-fi, with a plot thread of sentient AIs helping their chosen people, because they like them)
A lot of the anthologies published by Raconteur Press (formerly the North Texas Troublemakers, a gun club with a writing problem)
David Drake, Tom Kratman, John Dingo, Jerry Pournelle and early S M Stirling before he started inserting his perversions into his books. Oh yeah almost forgot H Beam Pipers Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen and Space Viking. These are the only authors I kept when I downsized my personal physical library. These days I mostly read pulp and western on my Kindle.
ReplyDeletePournelle was good, Crichton, Nivens… good writers were a dime a dozen back in the good ol’ days…
DeleteI actually enjoyed Kloos "Frontlines" series greatly. Then he released a comic book series based on it that to-this-day, was the worst piece of carp I have ever read.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievably bad, full of "The Message", but I bought it on kindle and managed to get an immediate refund after reading about two chapters. Never going back to read Kloos again.
"I certainly hope you all are spending your Saturday more productively than I am - can’t see how ya couldn’t! HAR HAR HAR!"
ReplyDeleteHey Glen,
Speaking of productive use of free time, I have a self-interested suggestion for a series for your blog.
I am just getting started with handloading. Literally ready to begin for the first time. Can you recommend any vids or books on how to start safely? I am rather attached to my eyes and fingers, and want to learn to handload & reload SAFELY for my deer rifle.
I have all the gear, but no friggin' idea. I've been saving the spent cartridges from my rifle, and have a nice supply of bits & pieces I've been picking up here & there since the stupid times began a couple of years ago. I have a couple of manuals, plenty of projectiles, powder, primers, a digital scale, press, tumbler, both spent cases and virgin brass, eye pro, etc etc etc.
I'm ready to start, and basically have no friggin' idea. Any pointers or tips & tricks appreciated.