Sharon and Crunchy are a lot of fun, and Sharon provides a sane-ish counterpoint to Rawles. I've been following along with Sharon's Apocalypse Book Club thing; skipped Moon is a Harsh Mistress because my tolerance for Heinlein has diminished over the years, but Lucifer's Hammer? What fun; I wish that somebody would do a movie version of it in all its full-on seventies period glory... I mean, this thing was written when pocket calculators and digital watches were still high-tech. It'd be hilarious.
She's right, of course, that it's rather sexist and racist and not exactly well-written, but wow; Niven going all big-picture and sciency makes for fun reads, and you can see how it influenced the rightwing survivalist loons (or maybe vice versa). Or maybe it's just both Niven/Pournelle and the loons following the same line of reasoning to the same logical conclusions.
Crunchy? Well, I'm not quite sure that she gets it yet. We shall see.
So there's more to MacGyver than just a new Swiss Army knife-based stunt of the week? Wow. Who'da thunk :)?
You should probably do a post on that middle path notion of yours...
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Date: 2008-07-23 11:19 am (UTC)She's right, of course, that it's rather sexist and racist and not exactly well-written, but wow; Niven going all big-picture and sciency makes for fun reads, and you can see how it influenced the rightwing survivalist loons (or maybe vice versa). Or maybe it's just both Niven/Pournelle and the loons following the same line of reasoning to the same logical conclusions.
Crunchy? Well, I'm not quite sure that she gets it yet. We shall see.
So there's more to MacGyver than just a new Swiss Army knife-based stunt of the week? Wow. Who'da thunk :)?
You should probably do a post on that middle path notion of yours...