Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

I'm hoping Three-Body Problem will be better than The Wandering Earth.

TWE was ok as an action packed popcorn flick, but I want more from TTBP. It is deeper and has a lot more thought provoking material.

There are some great action set pieces as well

Terry Pratchett didn't make that up. He borrowed the world turtle and the elephants from mythology.

It is a Hindu myth and also features in other countries mythology around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_T...

John (Taloni) wrote: "As for Locke, every time I see his name I wonder if Hobbes might be in the Society, or if there might be a Leviathan nearby..."

I picture Locke as bald and chasing smoke monsters 😉

The other movie Tom was trying to remember that was similar to Armageddon was Deep Impact

Dune! Dune looks so good! Yay Dune! Save us! Help us escape! Actually, we’re pretty good on that front as Ten Thousand Doors of January is helping us all escape. And we’re also pretty bulllish on the team putting together a TV adaptation of Three-Body problem for Netflix. EVERYTHING IS GREAT!

https://soundcloud.com/swordandlaser/...

Gravity is great. A fair bit of artistic licence.

Is it sci-fi though? It uses current tech in a realistic setting.

AndrewP wrote: "Just heard the sad news that Dame Diana Rigg has passed away at age 82 :("

She will always be Emma Peel from The Avengers for me.

I'd say let him have it, but he can't start it until "A Dream of Spring" is on the shelves of book sellers.

That should be about 2035 🤔

Nice list. I'm unfamiliar with Upgrade, but the rest are solid.

I'd have 2018 as Black Panther (ru: Avengers: Infinity War)

Veronica wrote: "Ian wrote: "I'm really enjoying the Blue Chests playing Fallout 76 ;-)"

Wait what??"

You lose one of your gamer cred points there Veronica 😉
and you played Fallout 🤔

😉

(view spoiler)[The blue treasure chest that January finds presents left by her dad. That he put in another distant chest.

They're exactly like how the storage chests work in Fallout, Resident Evil and many other RPG games. Store in one chest and access from other chests (hide spoiler)]

John (Taloni) wrote: "a straight up demon who is, well, impervious to fire."

Did you recognise the Demon? "There can be only one"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooN9x...

0% interested in older sci-fi, but you want Jekyll and Hyde picked 🤔

Trike wrote: "The first episode of HBO’s sci-fi series Raised By Wolves from Ridley Scott is free on YouTube. That is some bonkers stuff."

It continues to be bonkers in Ep. 2 & 3

After 3 episodes I'm still trying to work out who are the good guys. The Atheists or the Christians? :-?

At least they didn't have the Kardashians like Star Trek 🤔

The Kardashians are a quasi-reptilian humanoid species.

Star Trek's Cardassians are also bit reptilian looking 😜

Trike wrote: "John (Taloni) wrote: "I'm liking the repo man one and could go for the comet colonization. I say Tom deputizes Trike to pick this month's book."

Oh no you don’t."

With great power comes great responsibility. Not to mention the fun we'd have at your expense if it's no good 😜

Autonomous is an excellent book. I enjoyed it immensely.

I'd like to do a book from one of the early masters of sci-fi. H.G.Wells or Jules Verne.

If we are talking about filling a gap. There is a huge gap between Frankenstein (1818) and Slan (1940) for our Laser picks.

How does the audiobook handle the footnotes?

"the right of the people to keep and arm bears, shall not be infringed"

I wonder if Red Mars is a hint at October's book pick ;-)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...