Thanks for the heads-up. I was not trying to infect your machines, though as Andy L points out, the connection was eerily appropriate.
I run Avast and Firefox 3.6.28 with ABP, but my kids have switched to Chrome and, just now, I confirm it gives the warning. Maybe it’s time I switched too. (FTR, as I understand the warning, it doesn’t detect malware per se, but recognizes a linked-to site as being rated as malware.)
Anyway, OP asked for “humanoid” aliens so maybe my recommendation was poor anyway. Unless H. sapiens and its technology is considered “humanoid.”
Most definitely. Creepy, and with a pretty cool futuristic James Bond/espionage gloss to it. The movie is quite different, a little cheesy, but fun in its own right, I thought.
It’s kind of opposite, in that it’s humans discovering an alien planet and going off to it for a look see, but I found it pretty interesting: The Sparrow. A team of researchers travels to the planet to study and learn about its inhabitants, and things go wrong from there.
Gerrold’s a reasonably healthy guy (as compared to, say, George Martin), so I still hold out hope. Besides, I donated a fair sum of money to charity for the privilege of having a gruesome death in the next book. In an odd way, Mr. Gerrold owes it to me to finish A Method for Madness.
I reread this recently, having loved it when I first read it in the 80’s. With today’s hindsight, it has aged really badly, with the cold war USSR people and plots and settings so ridiculously caricatured that it makes Rocky 4 look like a documentary in comparison.
I really loved Greg Bear’s ‘Forge of God’ and ‘Anvil of Stars’, the first book being the invasion, with the sequel being our eventual retaliation.
I recommend the novel “Battlefield Earth” by L. Ron Hubbard (yes, THAT L.Ron Hubbard). The movie was not so good; I found the book quite entertaining. I think people stay away from the book because of the movie, but there’s nothing wrong with the book.
At the risk of sounding like a total boor - I must disagree most vehemently with the previous poster’s opinion of Battlefield Earth. I read it when it first came out, and I finished it because I was then still too young to realize that even navel-gazing was better than finishing dreck and life is too short to give to authors who wrote dreck.
It’s a horrible, horrible book, that failed completely to make the bar of being able to approach suspension of disbelief. If you value your time, don’t read it.
No,I don’t think it does,but I now realize that that was an unreasonable restriction that I added.I should probably check that one out too.Thanks for the suggestion.
