• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    L. Ron Hubbard’s “Mission Earth” series. I was young, and I’d read damn near all the sci fi that my local library had, I was acught up on the Wheel of Time that had been published to that point (I think it was still about five books before Jordan died), and gave it a try.

    It was fucking awful.

    Given that I was maybe 12 at the time, that’s saying something; it was just trash.

    Friends don’t let friends read Hubbard.

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        2 years ago

        I, too, enjoyed the gawdawful trash that was the Battlefield Earth movie. Yeah, it’s dumb, but if I only watched good sci-fi, that would be, like 50 movies total.

        Maybe.

        I’m pretty sure that one of my favorites, Event Horizon, would not make the list of good sci-fi.

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        2 years ago

        My sci-fi lit class used to vote on what book we would do next. We once voted on Battlefield Earth partially as a joke, but we were also curious about how bad it could be. We regretted it.

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      I tried to read the mission earth series but I just couldn’t connect with it. There was too much in the universe that it just expected you to relate to but gave no explanation of what it actually was. That being said, I was also young when I tried to read it.