Well, here's a change. We've written about Carl Hiaasen characters come to life in Washington, so how about a Kurt Vonnegut character in Idaho? Sadly, it is not Montana Wildhack or Kilgore Trout or even Eliot Rosewater. No, Idaho gets stuck with an accountant who wants us to think he's Howard W. Campbell, the protagonist of
I didn't make it past the first one. I read the whole thing, decided that I really didn't give a foetid dingo's kidney about any of the characters, and never bothered with #2. I've never even seen the film.
Heinlein was a mixed bag. He could write great stuff like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and authoritarian nonsense like, well, pretty much everything else.* But then again, I lost interest in most science fiction long ago because it so often amounts to banal libertarian fantasies where women swoon for strong science fiction author types.
*Okay, for the banal anal, If This Goes On (Revolt in 2100) is a tale of the U.S. overthrowing a religious dictatorship, and Stranger in a Strange Land is a counterculture fantasy (also a piece of crap). But most everything else, like Farnham's Freehold and Starship Troopers, is authoritarian.
I didn't make it past the first one. I read the whole thing, decided that I really didn't give a foetid dingo's kidney about any of the characters, and never bothered with #2. I've never even seen the film.
Spricht Herr Folke Deutsch? Or maybe Hitler spent his time in the afterlife learning English?
Heinlein was a mixed bag. He could write great stuff like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and authoritarian nonsense like, well, pretty much everything else.* But then again, I lost interest in most science fiction long ago because it so often amounts to banal libertarian fantasies where women swoon for strong science fiction author types.
*Okay, for the banal anal, If This Goes On (Revolt in 2100) is a tale of the U.S. overthrowing a religious dictatorship, and Stranger in a Strange Land is a counterculture fantasy (also a piece of crap). But most everything else, like Farnham's Freehold and Starship Troopers, is authoritarian.
What do you mean? It's just a simple tale of the evil, swarthy, devil-worshipping Calomerene persecuting a secret, fair-skinned prince!