@lizmeyer
The newest one I have is the last of @cstross ' #Laundry novels, The Regicide Report.
I don't know if you are ready up in that series, I think this is good so far but probably not an ideal entry point.
#ArtificialNoodle is slightly but amusing.
#Scalzi's #OldMansWar series has another one out, a reasonable continuation. The first one was another good effort at a response to #StarshipTroopers the #Heinlein book not film, and to #Haldeman 's #TheForeverWar
#TheStoneWeta newish...
Osią fabuły jest, ma się rozumieć, wojna. Taka, w której ludzkość staje naprzeciwko innej inteligentnej rasy – Taurańczyków. (...) Kłopot z ową wojną polega na tym, że siedziby obu biorących w niej udział gatunków znajdują się w ogromnych odległościach od siebie. Zanim więc adwersarze rzucą się sobie do gardeł, muszą do siebie dotrzeć.
@ksiazki #sciencefiction #haldeman #recenzja #fantastyka #informator #readlist2025pl #wiecznawojna #militarysf #sf
#USHistoryRevisited
#KentStateShooting by #OhioNationalGuard
(2/n)
...back then--in contrast to June, 2026--it even was a legal deployment if the #Ohio #NationalGuard 💂, requested by #Kent #MayorSatrom.
Even so, it seems to have proven to be the first stone in the avalanche that was to shatter the #Nixon Administration:
"H. R. #Haldeman, a top aide to President #RichardNixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In...
Das hier ist schon echt frappierend und kaum zu glauben:
Elon Musks fragwürdige Vordenker: Sein Opa Dr. #Haldeman und #Technocracy Inc.
I am not normally a fan of #1970s #scifi but #TheForeverWar by #Haldeman is exceptional. Tis like a scifi equivalent to The Red Badge of Courage. Ok, granted, some bits haven't aged well but it's still an insightful piece of work. (I'd say more but avoiding spoilers.)
(Edit- there's a reference to a stargate on page 106 of my copy of The Crow Road by Iain Banks. I am guessing that this book is the influence.)
> [I]n 1950, #Haldeman’s “quirky” politics led him to (…) leave #Canada for #SouthAfrica.(…) [He] had come “to believe that the Canadian government was usurping too much control over the lives of individuals and that the country had gone soft.” One of Haldeman’s sons [wrote it may've] been “his adventurous spirit and the desire for a more pleasant climate in which to raise his family.” But another factor was at play: his strong support for the brand-new #apartheid regime.
