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Since nothing in this community is about technology we might as well talk about science fiction. (lemmy.world)

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All the stories on the FP are about labor relations and corporate shenanigans. So anyway, do you like Star Trek or Star Wars better? Anybody still ike to read old school sci fi, for example I really love Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League stories - the swashbuckling adventures of intersteller trador Nicholas van Rijn and his Solar Spice and Liquors company, David Falkayne, et al. Good old basic space opera.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You say that like it's a bad thing.

iirc, it was in "War Of The Wing Men' where a princess has been traveling through the galaxy looking for a human male to sire her child. She ends up picking a fat, boorish space trader over the hero-type because the trader actually knows how to get things done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

It was "The Avatar" in a German translation. I read it twice or so at that time - and it's many years since, so I have only a dim recollection of all the details, but a lot of politics, and (if I don't mix it up now) questionable physics regarding light speed and mass, a lot of sex and some weird gaelic inspired poetry.

Maybe I'll find a copy one day again, to have a new look with my now old eyes and different woldview.

From what I've seen on goodreads or so I had a bit of misfortune as The Avatar isn't known as his best work. But beggars can't be choosers, at that time I got my sci fi fix by browsing the one bookstand with scifi in the central station's bookstore next to my bus stop home after school... they threw me out once or twice "This is for buying books, not for reading"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Here are some old school paperback writers you might not have heard of. I present them in no particular order, just off the top of my head. I found them all on wire racks in drug stores, lo these many years ago...

Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim. If you ever wondered why there were so many rappers with 'Ice' in their name, it's because Iceberg Slim was the author most widely read in the US prison system. I particularly liked 'Trick Baby' the story of a Black conman who could pass for White.

Donald Westlake aka Richard Stark. The other most widely read prion writer. Stark's 'The Hunter' has been filmed about a dozen times. His crooks are unemotional professionals.

Tanith Lee. The Goddess-empress of the hot read. 'Night's Master' has Satan as the hero. Every night he flies from his palace to seduce and/or terrorize mankind.

Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh wow, thanks for the tips! I'll check them out.