Retroactive Ruination

[bloodyrosemccoy]

You know the REALLY funny thing?

Last Saturday I finally found a book I've been wanting to read for years now: Spider Robinson's Callahan Chronicals. (3 books in one! WOO!)

It figures that this of all weeks would be the one where I start reading a 35-year-old book whose basic premise is that a bunch of guys sit around talking about their FEEEELINGS, don't it?

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[archmage.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that is SO not really what it is, though. The Callahan Chronicles are fucking mindblowing. That may be a more or less accurate description of the basic premise, but it has NOTHING to do with what the books are really like at all. They're just amazing -- not pussified dreck at all.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ah, but see, I didn't say the premise of sitting around talking about feelings was BAD. That's the point--this is awesome, classic sci-fi that's all ABOUT the stuff that supposedly came in just recently to "ruin" it.

Hell, no one can convince me that The Left Hand of Darkness is NOT a tremendously badass book, and it's got a grand total of one gendered character and the whole premise is people trying to understand each other.

... The more I think about it, the more narrow that ranting guy's idea of sci-fi is. I'm starting to feel sorry for him.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Did you see Scalzi's take on it?

I LOL'd.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

No! Do tell!

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Among the things he said was that people such as him should be put in Freeholds (they'll like that term much better than reservations ) where they can be free of girl cooties.

More here at his website, Whatever. He also has an LJ feed. I highly recommend it.

Slightly OT

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Check this out!
http://pharaoh-katt.livejournal.com/82759.html

Animated icons of people who've been ruining SF for years, including Mary Shelley.

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, make sure to read all the sequels and the books about Lady Sally's house, too. Some of my all-time favorites.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

Shared joy in increased. Shared pain is lessened. Thus do we refute entropy.

I met my husband because of the Callahan's books. :)

[xaandria.livejournal.com]

One of my favorites. Love Spider. Have quotes from CC painted on my bedroom wall at my parent's house.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I could say many many things about Spider Robinson, but chief among them are 1) damn him for being born 30 years too soon and 2) isn't it a pity that Jeanne met him before I did.... *cries*