Yes, the same people who couldn’t get past the DNC to get Bernie nominated are certainly going to ge able to redistribute all the wealth.

Don’t you know that we shouldn’t question the wisdom of dead white guys, ever?

You do realize that ‘the means of production’ are all in China right now?

May I suggest more stable and mature role models.

Morticia and Gomez.

[off topic]

The Thin Man movies. Classic Hollywood B+W with a pair of adults having a great time solving a murder mystery.

50 degrees in September? Fur hat, gloves, scarf, and the heavy boots.

50 degrees in March? Let’s go to the beach!

I’d put ‘The Expanse’ at the head of the line

Poul did a throwaway story that I’d love to see expanded into a series.

A group of time travelers from 4,000 AD travel back to Renaissance Italy. They run into an evil baron and his henchmen, including one very learned monk. A little torture and the Italians have their own time machine. They set up a base in 10,000 BC and raid across time. They know that the Time Patrol can only use things in the historical record, so as long as they keep a low profile they’ll never get caught.

I always try to go by publication.

Someone put it this way [they were talking specifically about the Conan stories]. If you meet someone and get to chatting you don’t tell your story in chronological order. Maybe the first story you tell is about what happened at work, or your most recent vacation. After you’ve known them a while you talk about grade school.

That’s my opinion.

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.

‘War Of The Wing-Men’ is a good one to start with.

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.

I think Dick was writing to be read in a particular time and place. Take Dashiell Hammett. ‘Red Harvest’ works a century later. there are some references that are dated [wearing a red tie] but overall you can give the novel to a modern person without a great deal of explanation needed. ‘The Thin Man’ requires a ton of annotation to be understood.

imho.

What boggles my mind is that there have been about fifty movies based on Philip K. Dick and zero based on Poul Anderson.

Anderson has galactic empires, roguish heroes, dozens of alien species, strong females, etc etc.

Old joke.

Russian history books only need to be five words long.

“…And then, it got worse.”

They are being sarcastic because that’s what they think it’s the proper way to behave.

Let’s do what she asks and leave her in peace.

They all have victim envy.

Nice.

I once wrote ‘snaked into’ when I meant ‘sneaked into.’

That was a typo, but I let it stand. I’ll try ‘ram into’ at some point.

Grammar question.

Did you mean ‘run into’?

Because ‘ram into’ also works.