Legend of the galactic heroesYoshiki Tanaka
Legend of the galactic heroes
by Yoshiki Tanaka · first published 2016
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v. 1. "The Golden Brat" Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the Empire's enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute--yet benevolent--dictator. His rival, the humble Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance, wishes to preserve democracy even if he must sacrifice his political ideals to defeat the Empire. Their political and military battles play out over a galactic chessboard in an epic saga fifteen centuries in the making!"--
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Some of my favorites this year: Fiction: - Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy. The way Hardy 'smuggles' Jude's viewpoint into the narrative is so ridiculously well crafted, a pleasure to read. - Legend Of The Galactic Heroes - a big anime from the 80s which was based on Japanese soft SF novels, which are now finally being translated. Worth a read if you're into space operas and large scale politics, I'm happy that the age…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗If you can stand anime, find an old series called "Legend of the Galactic Heroes". It's long, it's decently hard sci-fi in places, and it's got wonderful reflections on war and politics. It very much feels like old Pournelle/Heinlen stuff, with a healthy amount of cynicism about…
on “The Author of Our Best SF Military Novel Explains the Future of War” ↗If you want a space opera with more realistic setups/politics/internal logic, Legend of the Galactic Heroes is top tier stuff
on “The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]” ↗Words of warning though - if you watch Legend Of The Galactic Heroes (or read the novels), read Webers Honorverse books as well some of the space battle material on Orions arm 99% of warship depictions in SF will look to you unrealistically small-scale and mundane in…
on “The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)” ↗I ran into that issue when trying to read Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The translation for the first two books in the series was ok but not amazing, but for the third book they changed the translator and it became a complete and utter mess. I remember one part where a character…
on “Liu Cixin's Technologies of the Future” ↗…post-apocalyptical dystopia where teenagers are being oppressed by old people and the teenagers have to overturn the old ruling class. There have been two Gundam series and two Gundam movies in the past year alone. Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Yamato and Macross have all had movies come out within the past two years. Just because they disappear within the flood of content doesn't mean that they don't exist. > the post-apocalyptical dystopia…
on “Anime Confronts a New Apocalypse” ↗"Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was produced in a similar fashion as a sprawling 110 episode animated series adapted from a series of novels. People in Japan paid money as a subscription, then got a videocassette in the mail. For…
on “Firefly fans: 'Help Nathan Fillion Buy Firefly'” ↗…like because all of the characters are really nasty, but some people really, really like it for that reason. I asked my wife (who is Japanese) for a suggestion and she mentioned Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (Legend of the Galactic Heroes). I haven't read it but Wikipedia indicates it was originally a series of novels. It seems Viz publishes both the novels and manga in English. Ghost in the Shell is a very good sci-fi manga, but I…
on “Rational fiction” ↗