Science Fiction

A FOR ANYTHING
Damon Knight
© 1959 Zenith Books, Inc
© 1965 Damon Knight

One of my kids is excited for the release of Dune: Part Three. We were talking about Dune, how the movies broke up the enormous book, and got on the topic of “sandtrout”.

Robert A. Heinlein invented the Armored Suit for his 1959 military adventure, Starship Troopers.

Modern readers will see the Mobile Infantry’s armored suits through the lens of their own experience with microelectronics, and 60 years of experience and advances in guidance and control software.

I just read Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star. I had read it in Junior High or High school, sometime in the mid-1970s, and I don’t think I’ve read it since.

There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
Random House, 2025
ISBN 9780593983751

If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, William R. Forstchen
Skyhorse, 2012, ISBN 978-1616085469

Stanislaw Lem wrote Imaginary Magnitude, a highly imaginative book.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is just a great book, one of a kind.

I’ve read Men, Martians and Machines, and another Ace Double with Six Worlds Yonder and The Space Willies. many times since I was a child. The unifying theme here is: written by English sci fi humorist Eric Frank Russell.

I watched the 1953 movie version of War of the Worlds because I read the book.