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Written by Alex Keane on 2025-01-20 at 03:42

Reading through books from the "More Reading" list on the #Traveller wiki.

Current book is The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper. I'm just short of halfway through it. I'm really enjoying it, except for where the fact that it's from the early 1960s comes screaming to the foreground with things "but we can't expect the women folk to use logic." Otherwise loving the plot about trying to use an almost religious devotion to a falsity to motivate a community to improve

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Written by Captain Button on 2025-01-20 at 04:05

@squishymage42 But they can be mechanics.

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Written by Alex Keane on 2025-01-20 at 13:10

@cptbutton Right? I just got to the mechanic with his mechanic daughter and I guess she's just 'different from other girls'.

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Written by Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 on 2025-01-20 at 14:29

@squishymage42

Yes, those misogynistic bits are vile. But the rest of the novel is interesting.

The sort-of sequel is H. Beam Piper's Space Vikings (inspired the The Sword Worlds subsector). The sort-of prequel is Four Day Planet.

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Written by su_liam on 2025-01-20 at 20:10

@nyrath @squishymage42 It’s a little like watching original Star Trek sometimes. I love those things, but they can be cringy in places.

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