Posted on 08/25/2016 10:51:38 AM PDT by pabianice
There is no connection. The title was lifted from Nourse’s book just because it sounded cool.
The degree to which leftist authoritarians adhere to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as dogma is terrifyingly dystopian, but it isn’t fiction.
That's what I figured. I was always hoping they would make a movie based on the Nourse book. It's a good plot.
I’m still hoping for DeChancie’s “Starrigger” series. It’s a closed trilogy, good plot, and nothing that can’t be filmed (all action takes place on planets; virtually no spacetravel in the books).
Anyway, I just wanted to plug a favorite book I read last century.
The Werewolf Principle
https://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Principle-Clifford-D-Simak/dp/0980167140
I suspect it’s all dreck nowadays. If you care to look back a bit and sample some gems from the past ...
Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle
James Schmitz
Jack Vance
Roger Zelazny
Sharon Lee/Steve Miller
Keith Laumer
David Brin
And of course, Heinlein, Asimov, etc...
...
And others I can’t remember at the moment.
There’s more than enough good reading out there.
Those are all on my shelves, along with not that much in recent years (except from Baen Books, who put out stuff I like to read).
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