Which novels have the best wookie-suiter utopias? My standard proselytizing books have always been The Probability Broach, Alongside Night, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and Voyage From Yesteryear.Haven't read it in a couple of years, so it's way past time. Ladies and gentlemen, for any who aren't already familiar with it I present And Then There Were None, by Eric Frank Russell.
Any others I should keep in stock?
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Ummm.....what's a wookie-suiter?
I know....I'm such a plebeian.
She's the only person I've encountered who uses that expression, and I can only guess what she means by it. A "wookie suit" is a ghillie suit, most commonly worn - or at least looked on favorably as a concept - by freedom-loving freaks like our humble selves.
Therefore, I surmise, a "wookie-suiter" is a freedom-loving freak.
Of course, I could be way off.
Ah! Mystery solved, she actually defines it here:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/08/word-of-day-how-to-speak-tamarese.html
"Wookie-suiter: (whuh'-kē soo'-tər) n.
A libertarian. Esp. one who owns multiple Mosin-Nagants and a longbox full of comic books, reads science fiction, and refers to their minivan as the "Millennium Falcon"."
I actually can't defend what any of those things have to do with ghillie suits, so now I'm guessing that I was way off. Maybe she means an actual wookie costume? Like Chewbacca? But that's weird.
Did you not see the picture in that post?
Actually, Shootin' Buddy coined the term, attempting to be derisive, and I immediately decided it needed to be reclaimed, without even having a chance to turn into a proper pejorative first.
It comes from the picture of the guy in NH during primary season, standing on the side of the road with a Ron Paul sign, waving a Gadsden flag, and wearing an actual by-god wookie suit.
O...kay.
Actually I did see the picture. I just ... couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Ah, well.
I'm perfectly comfortable being a wookie-suiter.
Just don't ask me to actually wear a wookie suit. ;)
My own suggestions:
TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE by Robert Heinlein, for "The Tale Of The Adopted Daughter" and "Boondock" sequences.
TALES FROM THE FLYING MOUNTAINS by Poul Anderson
LITTLE FUZZY by H. Beam Piper (and it's sequels, but the first foremost.)
JUNKYARD PLANET (aka THE COSMIC COMPUTER) by H. Beam Piper
Collected short stories by H. Beam Piper.
TUNNEL IN THE SKY by Robert Heinlein.
Hmm. Lot more, really. I'll just do a blog post, with links. :)
I remember reading this in The Hugo Winners. I vastly prefer it to Ayn Rand. Man says in a dozen pages what she took 1900 or so to say. Broad musta thought she were Tom Clancy!
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