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06 Jul 2012, 7:15 pm

Armageddon-2419 A.D./Airlords of Han by P. F. Nowlan

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In the year 1927 WWI vet, Anthony Rogers is exposed to a mysterious radioactive gas and buried alive while working as a mine surveyor. Preserved in a state of suspended animation, he awakes 492 years later to discover a devastated America ruled over by the Han (Chinese) Empire.
The Han are content to live in luxury scattered across the continent in and Mega-cities--leaving the overgrown, wild countryside to the barbaric Americans…


Meanwhile, after centuries of brutal Han suppression and constant infighting, the Americans are beginning to rebuild. Organized into small loosely allied paramilitary socialist collectives known as “gans,” Americans are preparing for a second war of independence in their camouflaged, forest villages and subterranean weapon factories.


After saving ace air-scout Wilma Deering from a renegade gan, the Bad Bloods, Rogers is adopted into the Wyoming Valley gan. All is well until a Han Airship appears above the valley, using its disintegrator rays to lay waste to the hidden American base below! All seems lost until Rogers uses some good OLD American know-how to knock the Han’s Dragon out of the sky…

The second revolution has begun!


So, this is the pulp novella that introduced Anthony "Buck" Rogers to the world... It's actually a very good SF story with some good action.

BUT, the thing I find most interesting here is that these future American freedom fighters are SOCIALISTS.

...and it's not just glossed over either. Nowlan goes out of his way to emphasize the fact that the Americans do not own anything but (very) personal stuff. Everything else-all resources-are held in communal trust and used for the common good!

By contrast, the Han are described as greedy, weak, pleasure/wealth seeking tyrants.... Hmm...


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07 Jul 2012, 1:52 am

The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callincos and What is the real Marxist Tradition by John Molyneux and the article in Marxist Left Review #2 on Confronting The Stalinist Legacy. all for a reading group i have tomorrow. my comrade said i can come even if i dont finish the lot.



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07 Jul 2012, 3:08 pm

I am reading the darkest powers series by Kelley Armstrong again.



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07 Jul 2012, 4:22 pm

The Brothers Karamazov, have abit over 100 pages left. Been reading it forever. Crime and Punishment will be next.



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07 Jul 2012, 11:54 pm

NeueZiel wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov, have abit over 100 pages left. Been reading it forever. Crime and Punishment will be next.


I love Dostoyevsky! I'm re-reading Notes From Underground before I go to The Brothers Karamazov! Crime and Punishment is an excellent book as well!


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09 Jul 2012, 12:47 am

marxism and the party by j. molyneux. i disagree with his idea of lenin as some elitist prick and with it saying we should be too.



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09 Jul 2012, 11:48 am

Last Temptation Of Christ-Nikos Kazantzakis



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09 Jul 2012, 10:24 pm

Sex at Dawn. Looked interesting from hiperlexian's description of it.


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12 Jul 2012, 10:27 pm

Finished The Brothers Karamazov today, really good ending..funeral was very sad but uplifting :cry:. I think I'll read American Gods next before jumping to Crime and Punishment.



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13 Jul 2012, 12:49 am

Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground.



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14 Jul 2012, 2:32 am

Just finished " The Reader".

I found it very thought -provoking, and could relate to both the central characters. It shows that there is always another side to the story.



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14 Jul 2012, 8:49 am

I'm reading Leave No Doubt by Mike Babcock (Team Canada/Detroit Red Wings coach). It's a mix between an autobiography and a self-help book (even for non-hockey lovers) for chasing your dreams. I like it, to be honest... I'm not as upbeat and positive as him, though.

I'm also reading both a book of romantic poems and a book of poems by Percy Shelley. Both are good.


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15 Jul 2012, 9:08 pm

I'm not finished with mine yet. It sure is being eye-opening, I'll have to thank hyperlexian for it if it manages to change my basic model of human relationships. There are some things it hasn't fully explained yet so... must keep reading!


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16 Jul 2012, 10:51 pm

Temple of the Winds, 4th book in the sword of truth series by my favorite author, Terri Goodkind. "Cause he really writes the 'good kind'"



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16 Jul 2012, 11:33 pm

"Ever After"-Karen Kingsbury

In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily's reunited birth parents, Lauren Gibbs and Shane Galanter.Lauren and Shane still struggle to move past their opposing beliefs about war, politics, and faith. Shane believes it's possible; Lauren doesn't. So she says a painful good-bye to her long-ago love and returns to her job as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Both Lauren and Shane are shattered, believing that this time their relationship has truly ended forever.Then tragedy sends shock waves through all their lives. Can Lauren and Shane set aside their opposing views so that love---God's love---might win, no matter how great the odds?



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17 Jul 2012, 8:41 am

I read a lot of fiction.. but I do like conspiracy theories.. and will read anything to do with those.. at the moment I am reading a book called The Bloodline of The Holy Grail by Laurence Gardner mainly because it gives me lots of avenues to explore . I cant read a lot of non fiction. I forget what its about by the third page and have to keep flicking back to remind myself. I guess I'm just not interested.. though I did read books by Miss Read all about life in a village. They were so well written and descriptive and it helped that there were a lot of references to snow, something I am always fascinated by.