fitzroy95

I think I've read all of John Ringo's scifi over the years, and its always had an underlying threme that all the problems of the universe can be solved by more Americans with more big guns.

Which makes for some fun action stories and has usually been fairly enjoyable.

But I've just finished reading his "Beyond the Ranges" (published 2024), and decided that I can't be bothered any more. He spends significant chunks playing on the US culture wars, using his caricatures of "conservatives" (who can do no wrong) vs "liberals" (who can do no right), as well as his worship of the whole US gun culture thing (which the rest of the world considers to be delusional at best).

So, basically, while he

Just thinking about how well Larry Niven's "Dream Park" novel (series) would work as a SyFy TV series, run in a similar manner to the "24" series, and set approx 20-30 years in the future where hologram displays are more achievable and some technologies are slightly more "magical".

Where each season is a new 2-3 day game, each episode comprises 1-3 hours, and the viewpoint alternates from the players adventuring perspectives across to the Game Masters running the game. Playing on Hollywood sets with live-action holograms, a chance to show all that Hollywood behind the scenes magic being created (using slightly advanced technology)

And the game is always bigger than the game being played, i