Re-reading/watching a number of things this week.
Reading Friday at work. One of my favorite later Heinlein novels. Improbable coincidences, politics on its sleeve, polemical setting, and incredibly sexy, independent, and intelligent/competent women-folk. What’s not to love?
Reading the Sten novels at home. One of the earliest of the modern “military SF” series, and damn fine. Coincidentally, the first book is a blend of Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers, but with a hearty dollop of cynicism (and with a metaplot that’s only really revealed in the afterword of the last volume). I’ve read this series probably a dozen times, and I enjoy it anew each time.
And Katherine’s watching Madagascar on the DVD, which is a much more enjoyable and even profound a film than I had any sense of in its early commercials. And the Penguins “Christmas Caper” bonus track is just cream cheese frosting on the cake.
I read a fair amount of new stuff, but I do like to re-enjoy the old stuff, too.
