Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in September 2023

[Lynn McGuire]

Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in September 2023:

1. “Mutineer’s Moon” by David Weber
2. “Citizen Of The Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein
3. “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein
4. “The Star Beast” by Robert Heinlein
5. “Shards Of Honor” by Lois McMaster Bujold
6. “Jumper” by Steven Gould
7. “Dies The Fire” by S. M. Stirling
8. “Emergence” by David Palmer
9. “The Tar-Aiym Krang” by Alan Dean Foster
10. “Under A Graveyard Sky” by John Ringo
11. “Live Free Or Die” by John Ringo
12. “Footfall” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
13. “Lucifer’s Hammer” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
14. “The Zero Stone” by Andre Norton
15. “Going Home” by A. American
16. “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
17. “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
18. “The Martian” by Andy Weir
19. “The Postman” by David Brin
20. “We Are Legion” by Dennis E. Taylor
21. “Bitten” by Kelley Armstrong
22. “Moon Called” by Patrica Briggs
23. “Red Thunder” by John Varley
24. "Lightning" by Dean Koontz
25. "The Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells
26. "Friday" by Robert Heinlein
27. "Agent Of Change" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Lynn

[WolfFan]

On Sep 26, 2023, Lynn McGuire wrote
(in article <uetmtk$2bjvr$1...@dont-email.me>):

> Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in September 2023:
>
> 1. “Mutineer’s Moon” by David Weber

Giant plot holes with respect to biology, physics, logic...

>
> 2. “Citizen Of The Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein
> 3. “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein
> 4. “The Star Beast” by Robert Heinlein
> 5. “Shards Of Honor” by Lois McMaster Bujold
> 6. “Jumper” by Steven Gould
> 7. “Dies The Fire” by S. M. Stirling

major plot hole due to physics

>
> 8. “Emergence” by David Palmer
> 9. “The Tar-Aiym Krang” by Alan Dean Foster
> 10. “Under A Graveyard Sky” by John Ringo

too many guns

>
> 11. “Live Free Or Die” by John Ringo

he really loves things that go boom

[Lynn McGuire]

I have a very high suspension of disbelief.

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

I am adding 28. "Monster Hunter International" by Larry Carreia

Lynn

[a425couple]

On 9/25/23 21:32, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in September 2023:
>
> 1. “Mutineer’s Moon” by David Weber
> 2. “Citizen Of The Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein

You have 27, or 28 in your "top ten" list. OK.

I think a list like this should include:
"Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein.
"Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Songs of Distant Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke
"2001 a Space Odyssey" (and 2010 and 2061) by Arthur C. Clarke
"Childhoods End" by Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Silverberg deserves inclusion from his number of books,
longevity, and variety of ideas, I'll suggest "Nightwings",
"Hawksbill Station" and "Tower of Glass".
"Seed of Light" by Edmund Cooper

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <%5_QM.213899$GHI6....@fx17.iad>,

a425couple <a425c...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 9/25/23 21:32, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in September 2023:
>>
>> 1. “Mutineer’s Moon” by David Weber
>> 2. “Citizen Of The Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein
>
>You have 27, or 28 in your "top ten" list. OK.
>

--Increasingly inaccurately named-- is an SF tradition..

--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

[Lynn McGuire]

On 9/27/2023 1:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <%5_QM.213899$GHI6....@fx17.iad>,
> a425couple <a425c...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/25/23 21:32, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> Lynn’s six star list (or top ten list) in September 2023:
>>>
>>> 1. “Mutineer’s Moon” by David Weber
>>> 2. “Citizen Of The Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein
>>
>> You have 27, or 28 in your "top ten" list. OK.
>>
>
> --Increasingly inaccurately named-- is an SF tradition..

My increasingly inaccurately named or the group as a whole ?

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

Yup, those are all five star books. Just not six stars for me. Six
stars means that I have read it three times or more. And of course the
xkcd rating rule applies.
https://xkcd.com/1098/

Lynn

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <uf2onh$3gkpp$1...@dont-email.me>,

Items that overflow their numerology. Such as trilogies.

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <uf2onh$3gkpp$1...@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Hal Heydt]
it's approxiamately the top e*10 list at this point.

[Lynn McGuire]

Heh !

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

On 9/26/2023 7:56 AM, WolfFan wrote:

Didn't Arthur C. Clarke say something about technology ? Oh yeah, "In
1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of
the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his
famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most
widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic”."

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

Somebody somewhere told me this is a list of young men's adventure
stories. They were not wrong.

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

On 9/26/2023 7:56 AM, WolfFan wrote:

You can never have too many guns. Just ask General Custer who left his
Gatling guns behind for his last march.

Lynn

[Scott Lurndal]

Most americans (68%) don't have guns. Don't need guns. And don't want guns.

[Lynn McGuire]

You are wrong again. "Most American households have gun owners, poll
shows: ‘Stunning number’"

https://nypost.com/2023/11/22/news/most-american-households-have-gun-owners-poll-shows/

"A majority of American households include at least one gun owner,
according to a new survey that also shows a sharp increase in the number
of firearm owners over the past decade."

"The NBC News national poll found that 52% of Americans say they or
someone in their household owns a firearm, the highest share since the
outlet first surveyed the question in 1999."

Lynn

[Dimensional Traveler]

On 11/27/2023 11:24 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
> You can never have too many guns.  Just ask General Custer who left his
> Gatling guns behind for his last march.
>

They wouldn't have made a difference at Little Big Horn.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

[Scott Lurndal]

https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx

"Thirty-two percent of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun"

"while a larger percentage, 44%, report living in a gun household"

Pay attention. 68% of americans do not own a gun. And of the 44%,
most of them are too young to legally purchase a gun.

[Bob Casanova]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:42:41 -0600, the following appeared
in alt.books.david-weber, posted by Lynn McGuire
<lynnmc...@gmail.com>:

I suspect a game of semantics; his "68%" probably includes
ALL Americans, from birth on up. And the objections to some
of the books posted by a previous respondent indicate a lack
of comprehension - "major plot hole due to physics" about
what is essentially a fantasy?; "too may guns" about a
zombie apocalypse? Sheesh...

BTW, your data are correct, and may even be significantly
low; very few would claim to have a gun when they don't,
while the converse, especially in today's leftist and
litigious (BIRM) climate, is probably not true.
>
--

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov

[Lynn McGuire]

On 11/27/2023 3:54 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 11/27/2023 11:24 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>> You can never have too many guns.  Just ask General Custer who left
>> his Gatling guns behind for his last march.
>>
> They wouldn't have made a difference at Little Big Horn.

Why not ?

Lynn

[Dimensional Traveler]

Custer's command was split into multiple sub-units, allowing them to be
defeated in detail. (Except one which had the good sense to bug-out
ASAP after their first contact.) Also much of the battle was a running
battle, the "fixed position" bit didn't occur until the very end by
which point the US Army units were surrounded and massively
out-numbered. Gatling guns can't fire on the move and even when set up
(which takes time) they didn't have a rate of fire comparable to current
automatic weapons and didn't have enough munitions to have tipped the
balance.

About the only way I can see Gatling Guns saving Custer and his command
was by slowing them down enough that the Native Americans had simply
left by the time the 7th Cavalry reached Little Big Horn. That was why
Custer left them behind in the first place.

[Lynn McGuire]

Wikipedia says that the Indians had at least 20 Henry lever action
rifles spread among their best shooters. Custer's army had old breech
loaders and single action revolvers. Not good. Outmanned and outgunned.

Lynn