For me, most of the stories in Asimov magazine are pretty shitty and lazy and now they have woke themes threaded into them. The rare stories that are good are really good, but that is maybe like one story per magazine and sometimes a good story doesn’t happen for months. I’ve noticed they(the editor) seems to pick things that are “trendy” or the “it” themes because some stories are so empty, trope and lazy in terms of writing and the thing that stands out about those stories is the nature or character of the “author” and their background.

Good video, hope you get some walls soon. ✌️

I agree with your opinion 100%. I was into dystopian legion and was getting into dystopian wars. Than they put out the 2nd edition for dystopian legion and just never did anything else with it. I am now getting into Planetfall. Did you get into the new dystopian wars by warcradle? They will be releasing lost world exodus which is there version of dystopian legion in ways. They have dystopian age and have tied Wild West exodus, dystopian wars and soon lost world exodus together. They will be releasing firestorm and Planetfall as while. Firestorm rules are in beta testing right now.

No mention of the Foundation series. But, maybe you didn't like it. Dune is probably my favorite SF book. I've read it a few times and see something new every time I read it. Another favorite of mine is Rendezvous with Rama. Also, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Read A Stranger in a Strange Land some time in the late 1960s, so, that's a long time ago. Need to read it again with so many people putting it on their Best SF Book lists. Not sure I'd include it. But, will some day read it again.

Great 'iconic' list.

Stanislaw Lem, J G Ballard

PK Dick and Vonnegut are in my top 5 favourite authors for sure. Read everything by both.i

Man.....look sideways.......you get ur books by the top 20 list??

I read The Hobbit in elementary school. I just got the annotated version in Japanese with a new translation, so I was happy to see this video. Thanks for making it.

My congratulations to you Mr!....You TALK SF!!

Heinlein.....dude ...checkd about ten places like yours and you are the 1st one that brings forward REAL SF!

Can you please do a video on how to play this?

You seem cool nice video!

Pizdabol (( crazy

one of my favorite books STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

will forever be, Ready Player One :)

Childhoods End is also a long movie. Ran on pbs a while back. Dune has a whole series of political intrigue on Dune. the second Dune movie was six hours long and stayed close to the book unlike the first movie with John Travolta. the Sirens was a paperback on the shelf in the late sixties. I have been through it twice. great graphics for the cover. it is good to see you have a wide range of interest in the SF genre. Try Julian May with his pre-history novels with a psi slant. It's amazing how I thought is was reading "current event writing" in the mid sixties and now that I am older you tell me these stories were written about when I was born. They were still engrossing twenty years after their first publishing date. I am reviewing a lot of my earlier years of reading with audio books now as my eyes get tired easily now. Man have I forgotten most of the plotlines... there's a thousand books to keep up with. thank god for back-up systems. Have you done Ron Hubbards, Battlefield Earth. the book is so much better in detail. the fore-word to the book was written by Hubbard who explained that he paid for the publishing himself so that the editors wouldn't cut his story down to 100k words. Needless to say the story at 200k words remained fleshed out and not the Hollywood pablum that was presented on the movie screen.

I am a long time subscriber and definitely recommend it. Great way to find new authors and ideas. The articles are great as well. There is usually a good book review section and some discussion on science fiction. I currently subscribe tobthe kindle version. $2.99/month from Amazon and it's always there for you. Again - definitely recommend.

Any PK Dick EXCEPT Valis.

Thank you very much for making this video! I am thinking of getting into this and I wanted to know more of the nitty gritty about the character possibilities before diving in head first.

I think someone on the reddit put up all the pdfs on a Dropbox. Does suck that I really got into dystopian after Spartan went under as my dad brought into the kickstarter and I said I'd get into it for 2.5. I know we planned on running games for conventions. I had fond memories for uncharted seas as I played it from day one. Best time was when a frigite chained 6s until it blew up a capital ship.

Thank you for the overview. I really like the point buying system and the every 5th level advance in abilities. Cheers, T.

I've been following along with the Starfinder hype. It seems interesting and at the same time I know I wouldn't play it. My regular group is more tech and science savvy than me so I would be called out a lot. I enjoy the comforting chaos that is magic in the olden times. :D Although maybe you can prove me wrong with your vids. Bolt action! goood choice. Actually, for germans without camo you can just skip the camo painting part and exchange it for a very light drybrush of the base color. Works well. And you were on rehab and broke and crawled back to the soft clutch of the gw plastic goodness. Enjoy it mate. Cheers, T. PS. you didn't butcher the name. You nailed it.

Maybe the old games didn't create new customers? That is the thing with a lot of miniature games. Also the points you mentioned are most probably true as well. Anywho, great to see a another vid from you and hope to see more. Cheers, Tristan.

Good to see you again, though its sad that its under these circumstances. I was shocked as well but fully agree the Spartan had spread them selves far too thin an seemed to lack focus. Also it didn't help that Spartan Neil had very serious health issues that took him out of the picture for quite a while. DW and FSA are great IPs that probably will get picked up by another company.

I never got why people disliked the covers either

Do you read Kim stanly Robinson . If so you should do a video on his books

All of these titles are great. The iconic Dune would be my favourite, especially with the religious development and the gradual getting rid of computers for human Mentaps etc. It's a sort of Dark Age Universe with feudalism on a Galatic scale. I loved that story. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is also another great choice.

i ordered dune after watching this

"Also known as a Lich Lord" idk about that, you dont look like a lich lord...

how can rands survival be cool? it completele invalidates him and his. harem's whining over his supposed ultimate sacrifice in 13 books. it makes them all moot

Most of your choices are good. Dune is my favorite out of these. But god i hated Childhood ends. Especially the end. It was interesting in the beginning but the end totally spoiled it to me. Childhood ends is not Hard scifi. He even ACK even warns in the beginning that yeah i was super christian at the time and boy it shows.

I was looking for good sci fi books and when I searched all I got is young adult romance disguised in sci fi but your list is very promising. I think I'm going to check all of the books you mentioned nothing better than books that entertain me and makes me think at the same time. Hope you do more of books reviews or recommendations.

Mate .... Have you ever checked out Eden from Taban minis ? .... If not, give it a look. I've been playing for a while now .... very cool.

The CoA has been refferd to as a Game of Drones fleet. Its not pleasant to be on the receiving end of that fleet type. Good unboxing vid Merc.

Nice minis. How do you feel about the fact that they don't sell their minis in single blisters anymore, only in battlegroups like these? Cheers, T.

Good to see you again merc, Good update. I wonder if there would be way to play DW on line with the players directing the moves. Giving commands based on headings and distances with a 3rd person moving the ships and rolling the dice. I like the idea of the how to play DW series.

3.5's skill system was needlessly complex and slow.

Kay-door

Great recommendations, a little less knows works there as well. Definitely going to pick some of them up. If you haven't read the The Martian I recommend that one, one of the best recent sci-fi books if you ask me. Very easy to ready and funny.

Could you please do a collection-video where you show off some of your games? I know its alot of work but it would be awesome! :)

i love firefly :) oh and fox are some idiots aswell

i miss lich lord so much :(

Talk about the content

Good luck with that dreadball league. :) Cheers, T:

Great reviews!

I like that game. I got the starter set for my brother and it is a nice game to play along with some beer. :) Cheers, Tristan.

very nice game. easy to learn too.

Happy new years to you too. Hope the job hunt will go with flying colors :) Cheers, T.

Good to see you back Merc. Glad DW is still on your gaming last. I'm currently painting up yet another fleet, but this is an FSA fleet for a friend. I'm also getting into X Wing as I need a lighter game with no painting.