Ive been reading the Honor Harrington series on and off for a few months now between my other books and I thoroughly enjoy the hard military bent of the stories as well as the whole Horatio Hornblower in space Britain thing. When I just look at the surface of the stories those concepts keep me going. Ive made it to Ashes of Victory and am about halfway through when all of a sudden this idea struck me.

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Now before I get into my observations I feel the need to preface this by saying that Im not complaining about politics in my stories, thats part of media, there is always politics in the media you consume and you dont always agree. I also feel the need to say that I carry a very hard left leaning political bias and wouldnt feel like this is a good faith discussion unless I shared that.

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Now onto the actual point. Am I crazy or is David Weber really hard on pushing the superiority of laissez-fair capitalism and classic conservatism and demonizing the crap out of anything even remotely socialist? The Manticoran Empires superiority is derived almost entirely from the economic benefits of the wormhole termini and their willingness to keep out of the cartels business, often to the point of allowing the cartels to circumvent the law. At the same time their biggest enemy is a bloated welfare state that preaches economic equality in theory but applies itself like a heavy-handed dictator and also has a number of important characters with eastern European names to really hammer the point in.

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Not trying to start a political discussion on the merits of different governments or economic systems i just wanted to make sure I wasnt insane and seeing bogeyman everywhere. Am I out of the loop and David Weber is widely considered a hard-line conservative capitalist?

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It's all about "willful suspension of disbelief".

Lookie here::

The cops always flash their badges (or equivalent) about 50 -- 100 feet away from the suspect that they are trailing. The suspect flees, and the cops still manage to catch-up and detain the suspect.

Heck, sometimes the cops are even sauntering down the street wearing jackets that have, say, "FBI" nicely embroidered on both the front and back. Like nobody will notice?

SF requires "willful suspension of disbelief", and that's to be expected. But jeez: are cops so stupid as to flash their badges far away, yet athletics enough to catch the criminal?

I vaguely remember the first scenes or episodes being about people on board a spaceship that has a countdown going all the time, and the ship has to continue to jump before it reaches zero to escape from some enemy following them.

As title really. Don't lynch me, but I've never played any of the games...

I'd like to watch the series, but am unsure if I need to have played the games to understand it fully.

Thanks in advance!

Maude’s Book Club is doing a live online interview with scifi author Andy Weir to talk about his books Project Hail Mary, The Martian and Artemis. It’s in 2 hours!

Didn’t see a reaction thread so I created one as I’m watching.

I’ve always heard great reviews of this book, and started reading it recently. I’m about a third of the way done, the story started off a bit cryptic but I’m gradually understanding the world building.

However, I just found that this is the 6th book of a series! Doh! So how much exactly do the first 5 books contribute to the understanding and enjoyment of the story? Can it be read as a standalone?

I do want to say that i read (and enjoyed) Left Hand of Darkness a couple of years ago, again without realizing that’s part of a series! So again, what did I miss.

No spoilers please! (It’s why I’m asking this here instead of searching online)

Would it be a grenade? To make more sense, the human body is significantly smaller than the planet Earth. A reactor bomb can cause significant damage to the planet. What is that equivalent, but on a smaller scale for a human?

The reason why I am asking is because I am trying to find a way to defeat something (or someone) that has the Strong Nuclear Force and/or Electromagnetism.

I have been looking for months for a weakness and only found this; "radioactive elements decay or in fission reactions (reactors or bombs)", which I am unsure to be true. I have seen a lot about the decay, but not much about the other stuff said or how it could happen, outside of what's quoted to be reactors or bombs. I have also seen some stuff about fusion and fission, but nothing about how it could help with a weakness.

I had an idea where the character was practically a star since he does absorb a lot of solar energy like Superman, but I feel like there's more to a star than just the Strong Nuclear Force, so I got rid of the idea and the made up aftermath of death, though still never found a weakness to get the character to there (death). I just came up with the aftermath and that's it. I also saw that iron can kill a star or is a sign a star is about to die, but there's iron in our blood, so I didn't think that would work.

Also, it's just one character (And later a couple more. One will be much worse than this character since she already has really high durability) so something like a nuke isn't ideal, which is why I was either looking for something on a smaller scale, an alternative, or if there's another way to "kill" the Strong Nuclear Force in a certain area or something.

I love sci fi shows and films and had heard a lot of praise for The Expanse, so I watched the first few (4) episodes 2 years ago but was really disappointed.

The sets and effects looked cheap compared to other shows and the characters were all really dislikeable, constantly arguing, backstabbing each other I couldn't empathise with any of them, so I stopped watching.

I did however like the world building, power conflicts between Mars, belters etc, the political aspect.

Should I go back to it? Do the characters develop more sympathetically? Do Amazon put more money into later seasons?

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It popped up in my smart TV feed, and I clicked into it. For some reason, the Amazon app dropped me into the eighth ep in the series, which I watched for about five minutes before figuring out something was seriously wrong with the narrative 🤦‍♂️

Flipping back to ep one, I managed most of it but am wondering if it's worth watching. From what I can see, the plot is a mix of Western and sci-fi, and I'm not usually fan of Westerns.

Is the Western aspect merely scaffolding for the sci-fi, or is it more Western than sci-fi?

Got this for a dollar at the bins today and it seems cool, wondering if anyone else has read it

I loved Dune as a youth but if memory serves, the sequel, and the followup were decidedly “meh.” I went back and reread the original book in preparation for watching the first film, and noticed significant problems with it that had completely passed me by. Now after seeing the second film, I am all kinds of confused about the whole project. Dune is a complicated book that I find I can no longer recommend without caveats, and while there are particular aspects of the storyworld that are innovative and fascinating, I’m not so sure about it overall. Anyhow, this first of the prequel trilogy is… huh… Let’s just say I am not enjoying it so far. I guess it’s probably pretty challenging to pick up a seminal sci-fi epic after the author has died and write meaningful new installments, but holy cow…

Normally, I don't watch scifi comedies, but I accidentally started watching Avenue 5 and I am having a blast !! Now I'm wondering if I should start The Orville after I finish this one.

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