They are aimed at like 10-12 year olds. But they also take 10-12 year olds seriously and assume they want to read good stories with interesting characters. They’re in a similar subgenre with Treasure Planet. I would absolutely devour an animated or CGI adaptation. Spacebread is fun and beautiful, but Born of Flame is amazingly good. The world building for the books is unique and deep.
Well, yeah, when white dudes do it, it’s just healthy sexual domination, helping the poor, traumatized white women heal from the experience of being assaulted by orcs / killer whales (happened!) / brown people. Also, wanting to have sex with 14 year old girls is just, you know, a dude being a dude right? It’s just natural! (Also discussed in the same book with the killer whales)
Yeah, they decisively defeated the Mohdri in book three. Then he wrote like 4 more books.
The Mohdri is a good guy now. It turns out he was just lonely and misunderstood. Not kidding, kindly ignore and forget about all the mass murder and enslavement. All along, he just needed people to like him and give him a chance and teach him how to be decent and compassionate and how to act more like a Trill and less like a Goa’uld.
The new bad guys are Nazi horse furries. He literally describes them neighing and whinnying as they monologue about galactic domination. I just picture a My Little Pony with a Hitler mustache and a swastika cutie mark. Don’t even mention their species name, it’s like a popsicle stick level horse pun.
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Ooo, I loved those when I was 12, probably read them 6 times. I should read them again.
Spacebread and Born of Flame also stood the test of time.
I was reading some Heinlein a little while ago
Oh yes, the guy who gave us the line " A father and his daughter got onto a starship, a husband and his wife got off." I
Zahn has no defense as a modern author.
I mean, he has been writing sci-fi since the '80s. But if you go back and read some of his earlier stuff, he really hasn’t grown much as a writer. In fact, I think he kind of peaked in the '90s with the original Thrawn cycle (and the Icarus Hunt and the Conquerors trilogy). Most of what he’s written since then has been formulaic rehashes of his glory days (sequels to the Cobra books, sequels to the Icarus Hunt, prequels to the Thrawn books).
If an author constantly talked positively about the rape in the book
**Cough JohnRingo cough cough
That’s exactly how I’m feeling right now.
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Yay, a time travel episode.
Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.
Every fricken’ time. Someone posts that they want something specific and everybody dog piles into the conversation to recommend a bunch of the stuff that ALWAYS gets recommended, but that doesn’t really have anything in common with what the poster asked for, and are even stuff they straight up said they already read.
There’s not much out there like Murder Bot, though IMO it owes something to the Stainless Steel Rat. If you liked the humor, you might like Expeditionary Force (the Skippies from Bobiverse are named after an absurd AI character from ExForce). Craig Alanson’s, let’s call them “old fashioned” feelings about gender are on FULL display (which I find off putting, but I can look past it), but the books are hella funny.
I also just the Jinn Bot of Shantiport, which is a fun take on the Aladdin story (if Aladdin was a hot girl and the genie was an old bot from an era with better tech, so its’ basic hacking skills make it a god). The writing style is very different, but it’s also fun, funny and has goofy AIs.
I’ll watch it, but I’m already skeptical because it’s set in the 32nd century. That’s like setting Star Wars stuff in the Sequels Era (don’t do it).
There’s a learning curve, but if you’re familiar with WAF’s it’s not hard.
If you want to DIY something, I have a bash script that builds OpenResty with NAXSI from source. Most of the web apps I write anymore are actually in Lua, for OpenResty, maybe with an API written in something else. But I also help other members of my team deploy their Node and Python apps and stuff, and I always just park those behind OpenResty with NAXSI, just doing a standard nginx reverse proxy.
Many of my self hosted solutions are just DIY cludges. I was talking to a friend of a friend on Saturday about media streaming and he told me all about his Jellyfin setup and then asked about mine and I was just like “I just store MP4s on an SSHFS drive and play them in VLC on my TV (which runs Linux Mint).” When the survey asked about the various types of software I was like “No… I don’t use anything like that… wait… yes I do! I just don’t use a prebuilt solution!”