#heinlein

[humanoidhistory]

Tim White cover art for Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 1978.

#illustration #science fiction #tim white #stranger in a strange land #robert a. heinlein #heinlein

[blocpulp]

Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers (USSR, 1990)

artist: A. Nazarenko

#scifiart #sci fi art #science fiction #sci fi #sff #heinlein #robert heinlein #book covers #ussr #90s #A. Nazarenko

[dzgrizzle]

Here’s my DragonCon 2023 Report. I was especially happy to be part of the annual Robert A. Heinlein Pay it Forward Blood Drive at the con, since this is the first year I’ve been eligible to be a blood donor.

And here is my Linktree with links to all my other sites: https://linktr.ee/dzgrizzle

#dragoncon #dragon con 2023 #dragon con #dragoncon 2023 #robert a heinlein #heinlein #pay it forward #blood drive #blood donor

[paulgadzikowski]

Rereading Stranger in a Strange Land for the first time in a few decades and had the revelation that, if I were now a screen actor as I dreamed fifty years ago and this were being made into a movie or tv series, the lead I'd be up for is Jubal

#stranger in a strange land #heinlein #me

[vintagerpg]

Man, every time I try to crack into a wargame, I wind up throwing up my hands in surrender. I am just incapable of enjoying rules sets like this. Which is a bummer, because Starship Troopers (1976) is legitimately interesting because it appears to be radically asymmetrical for the time.

We’re looking at a two player game that moves through seven scenarios, humans on one side, bugs on the other, with a rogue faction of fickle allegiance in the mix. These scenarios work to recreate the major points of conflict in the novel by Robert Heinlein. The human side is fairly conventional, though individual troopers can carry specialized ordinance and equipment (perhaps showing the influence of D&D’s concept of player characters). They’re tough and have a lot of firepower. The bugs, though, aren’t on the board. As with Battleship, their player creates a secret map of the underground hive, with their units only hitting the board if they burrow to the surface. Their big offensive capability is mines that are laid before play — they vary in strength, ranging from one hex to seven hexes. So it seems to set the stage for a tense game of cat and mouse, with the human player trying to flush out the location of the central hive brain and the bugs trying to bait the humans into clustering in the blast zone of a mine. I’d love to play it if I could get over my allergy to bookkeeping, of which there seems to be quite a lot!

That cover art is pretty rad though. The interior art is kind of weird. I dig the collage of in-universe documents in the last page of the rulebook — they really set the narrative stage.

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #Wargame #Heinlein #Starship Troopers #Avalon Hill

[sleepycatmama]

Best Novel finalist review: Karl K. Gallagher’s Swim Among the People dramatizes heroic planetary resistance to an insidious totalitarian interstellar empire – Prometheus Blog

https://www.lfs.org/blog/review-karl-k-gallaghers-swim-among-the-people-dramatizes-heroic-planetary-resistance-to-an-insidious-totalitarian-interstellar-empire/

#science fiction #books #good story #Heinlein

[mysteriouslypleasantcat]

Reading about how tolkien is a really good person just pisses me off more tbh. I’m not sure how to put this into words but just like. It’s one thing to have a horrible person be a bigoted piece of shit, that’s whatever. But it honestly hurts more coming from someone who like isn’t. Like why does tolkien hate Mongolian people so fucking much? Why is it that he believes mongolians are some sort of irredeemable evil? Like this shit just bothers the fuck out of me to be quite frank. Mongolian people get so much shit, not just from white people, but from other asian people too. They deserve better than this. It just pisses me off so much that this man who talks about the horrors of war and how sad it is when people go to war and die, decide that mongolian people are sub human and evil and deserves to be genocided, that it;s ok to kill them without any moral conundrum And honestly this is not just an issue specific to Tolkien. Orson scott card wrote a book about how genocide is badm and we shouldn’t hate people we don’t understand, with ender’s game but is still a fucking homophobic piece of shit. Robert A. Heinlein wrote a book about the future were everyone came together under one government and coexisted, and had a non white protag when barely anyone did that at the time with starship troopers, yet the book was also a metaphor for how chinese people are just fundamentally not the same as everyone else, that we’re just a hivemind that don’t care about individual deaths and have no individuality and that war with china is inevitable  so you shouldn’t feel bad to kill them. What is it about fucking white people that makes them think yes racism is bad, but then turn around and act like certain people deserves hate anyways?

#OSc #orson scott card #ender's game #lord of the rings #LOTR #tolkien #jrr tolkien #starship troopers #robert heinlein #heinlein #racism #discourse

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Damon Knight (editor) - A Shocking Thing - Pocket Library - 1974

#witches #masters #occult #vintage #tales #heinlein #sturgeon #bester #aldiss #pocket library #damon knight #17 #1974 #hair-raising

[paulsspaceshippictures]

The first flight ofvthe Avro Lancaster was 1941. The first flight of the Avro Vulcan was 1952. Eleven years' difference!

And here's Robert and Virginia Heinlein on the set of Destination Moon, 1950, and standing in NASA's mockup Apollo Command module in the mid 60s.

So anyway I'm not worried about the Singularity, things seem to be slowing down. :-)

#singularity #heinlein #vulcan #lancaster #avro #destination moon

[see-fee]

Chapter 16, my gift to the world. Merry Christmas, motherf---ers 💖

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35069428/chapters/110167276

And there's gonna be more.

Send me some love (snacks & tea) via Ko-fi 👉 https://ko-fi.com/seefee ✨

#daneelijah #c/fe #no unnecessary distinctions #my writing #my fic #my first fic #elijah baley #daneel olivaw #r. daneel olivaw #valentine michael smith #asimov #heinlein

[sistersorrow]

I want a Stranger in a Strange Land movie, butbit needs the Starship Troopers treatment so it makes Heinlein roll in his grave

Make every character openly queer, the only reason Smith wasn't giving a Fosterite fellow that top so slop he ascends to old one status was because Heinlein was a FUCKING COWARD

#robert a. heinlein #heinlein #stranger in a strange land #I want this to be the gayest possible shit

[barbarian15]

"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein

#robert a. heinlein #heinlein #authority #government

[blocpulp]

Robert Heinlein - Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (USSR, 1990)

artist: M. Turbovsky

#sci fi art #science fiction #sci fi #sff #ussr #90s #book covers #robert a. heinlein #heinlein #m. turbovsky

[dzgrizzle]

I saw in the Facebook groups that DragonCon had 2,997 donors this year in the 20th annual Robert A. Heinlein Pay It Forward Blood Drive. That puts the grand total at over 50,000 participants since the program began in 2003.

#dragoncon #dragon con #dragoncon 2023 #dragon con 2023 #robert a heinlein #heinlein #pay it forward

[paulgadzikowski]

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. Hawkeye of M*A*S*H is looking glumly into the mirror mounted on his dresser with his bottle of hair dye sitting on the dresser as Guinan of Star Trek: The Next Generation speaks to him. Guinan is saying, “This is where keeping in contact with other Howard Famlies would have helped. At your age most Howards have faked a death and adopted a new identity at least once.” Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Preview panel only. Click here for full cartoon. Or see the on-site navigation tutorial. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 10:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 22:00 daily are from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates.

Today is when the first panels of this comic strip I drew last May are set. Today is what I worked out to be Hawkeye Pierce's 100th birthday, based on that he was a grade school student during the Depression (Sometimes You Hear The Bullet) and on that Alan Alda's birthday is January 28. This makes Hawkeye only twelve years older than Alda, though M*A*S*H at air/production time was set twenty to thirty years in the past, which is only weird until you remember how much older Burghoff was than 18-year-old Radar when he quit which was one of the reasons he did. For the full story of Hawkeye Pierce being with Robert Heinlein's Howard Families, see the Three Faces archive page special theme columns under "Hawkeye is a Howard".

So happy 88th birthday to Alan Alda. Long may you wave.

Thanks for reading.

#m*a*s*h #heinlein #guinan #disco #dsc #star trek discovery #star trek #fan art #fancomics

[lauraliansol]

The Day After Tomorrow is a novel that's really a warning that every author has at least one dud.

#the day after tomorrow #heinlein #scifi #booklr #books #reading