What the hell are you reading?

They removed the only coded way to make $$$ by selling spice in the rinth. That was a very sad day.

See, what happened was, was I showed this ONE GUY how to do it effectively - I won't name him here - and he caused the staff to completely remove all that shit. Couldn't they have just, uhh, reduced the amount of potential profit instead of, you know, removing the whole fucking system? Kinda dumb. Anyway, good on them for implementing the spice searching stuff in Red Storm. They get points for that. But I mean, it falls short, and it demonstrates just how little importance on drugs within the context of the game, when, in fact, drugs - not magick, not sorcerers - are one of the leading causes of murder, corruption, and betrayal in the world at large. Not that I know anything about that...

Hmmmm. If I spread around info on the best trading routes then those would likely be nerfed, as well.

Osprey's Early Crusades Books. I am planning to begin a Seljuk Army of 11th century with 10mm minitures, trying to figure out what to buy, how to paint.

PS. Recently finished Ancillary Justice. It was awesome. I am waiting Ancillary Sword to arrive.

Some of my gaming budies (from miniature&rp games club) began painting Crusader, Arab and Byzantine armies, I thought it would be nice to have a Seljuk army around (Probably one of the most important factions around 1-4. crusades). Thing I enjoy most about historical war gaming is, it motivates me to learn history. I read not only battles but ordinary lives, goverments, daily motivations ideas, in general culture of a certain era. I began this hobby a few years ago. So far, I have WWII Americans, Habsburg Austrians of Napoleonic Era, Spanish of Age of Sails Period and now hopefully Seljuk Turks. I read/watched a lot of about those periods. I am eager to have Carthagians of Ancient times, and Prussians of Frederick the Great in a couple of years.

PS. By the way, not especially gives me thrill but I am an Anatolian Turk by ethnicity. Some of my ancestors must be Seljuk..

Bean was a product of illegal Eugenics work and the ethical ramifications of that were repeatedly explored. Ender didn't support genocide whilst the Earth government did, the other books deal with these topics at length. As for fascism, once again this theme was in the book but was not explicitly supported by the narrative it was merely a story component.

Based on your one line response I can only assume that any book that tackles these issues is Nazi apologist? Where in the book(s) does the author explicitly use the story to make a case supporting these topics from which you are concluding that it apologizes or justifies the nazi regime?

EDIT - I googled that shit specific search parameters: Ender's+game+nazi+apologia

forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-299361.html
blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/06/enders_game_horrible_lessons.php

^ It appears that the primary point is that Ender is a charismatic leader who utterly destroys his enemies in his own self-defense (as perceived by himself). This is then extrapolated to mirror Hitler's own life and philosophies. I'll acknowledge that you can academically argue this but only as some kind of classroom discussion or debate league topic. The book gives the reader omnipotent perspective which quickly provides the crucial supporting details that dismisses the Ender = Hitler presumption. Ironically enough the character Ender would probably agree with you that he is future space Hitler due to his own actions, but I'm afraid that I personally don't see the logic to support it.

EDIT #2 - Providing a better link with sublinks in this page for those that want to dig deeper too

www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

If you read the Little Prince because you're sophisticated and like reading deeply depressing children's books. I suggest listening to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRPyoPGO2vo

If you're not into children's books I suggest A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

I picked up the first dresden book for an upcoming plane ride. Just got done reading the first four of gene wolf's book of the new sun. Not sure my thoughts on it. On the one hand, it's neat to piece together little clues like a tower being an ancient spaceship. But then there's little mysteries that just seem so far fetched. The setting is tens of thousands of years into the future, and at one point a guy is talking to a little girl who had was a prisoner -- her family had been imprisoned for generations and she was born in there -- who talks about a handed down story of a navigators funeral procession and everyone wearing black. According to a book of essays on the books, that's supposed to be a reference to Jfk's funeral. Because the author was catholic, Jfk was catholic, and a couple of superficial similarities between the descriptions. Pretty lame mystery imo and takes away from the magnum opus vibes sci-fi fans give when talking about the book.