I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
I first saw them way back in the '70's - I think my father was reading them.
They are surprisingly not a terrible read.
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@gregeganSF @cstross did that escape containment, wasn’t there an “artificial intelligence” thing called Friend for sale?
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross I don't think they ever were published in Germany (although they would've fit quite in with our long-standing "train novel" pulp tradition).
So I mostly knew about them from the movie and D&D. Like any long-running thing you're not familiar, it's quite weird to the outsider…
(Still harmless compared to the few times when fanboys tried to explain "Perry Rhodan" to me)
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross This blows my mind. I loved that movie when i was a kid (saw it first around ’86 or ’87 when i was 8-9 years old, haven’t rewatched it since the early 90’s), and never realized it was just the tiny tip of a massive iceberg…
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross Never read one but the movie adaptation "Reno Williams the adventure begins" is a fun bit of nonsense that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross huh. had no idea it was a book sequence. the 80s movie was kind of fun. would we have had Big Trouble in Little China without it?
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross wow: you weren't fucking kidding
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross I read the first few when they were free in a dump box and they're bad.
Kinda like the worst junk food bad.
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I'd seen these books in dump boxes outside second hand shops over the decades and taken them for boringly routine mens adventure/thriller yarns, but reading the Wiki description of the Destroyer's adversaries is just totally LOLWUT?
@cstross Back when the movie came out there was a bookstore near me that specialized in this sort of stuff. Also romance novels. I picked up a few Destroyers just to see if there was any funny like in the movie. Nah.
The Reacher books are better.
Suddenly wondering if the industry shift away from mass-market paperback has doomed this genre.
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