I’m definitely a nerd.
I can nerd out, in many ways.
Not just sci-fi, but I’m a music nerd, a canoe nerd.
I also have always enjoyed strategy games, and when you are playing RISK at a table with people in their 30’s-40’s, I think that qualifies. Although we were playing for money, and drinking.
It’s probably an interesting thing to watch.
I’ve always been a WWII junkie, and I read or watch everything about it. We play another board game called Axis and Alies, and the game begins right before Pearl Harbor, so if you’re Japan, you know your history, so you know that you almost have to attack Pearl Harbor, to weaken America for the beginning of the war.
One time, I was Russia, and they go first. Instead of beefing up Moscow, I abandoned it and took the entire army as far east as possible. This was how Russia defeated Napoleon, by letting him outrun his supply lines, so I tried the tactic against 1940’s Germany that starts with a great deal of tanks.
It didn’t work, and I ended up being closer to Japan, so all was lost.
My friends and I, can remember most of the moves, from games we played years ago.
I’ve been nerding out on Madden (football game,) and I am about ⅔s through “The Ghost of Tsushima.” A game set during a Mongolian attack on ancient Japan.
As far as actual science fiction, I don’t have enough time toost all the books I’ve read. But I was reading adult sci-fi, when I was 12 years old.
I actually just bought a big hardback book, that has all of Jules Verne’s novels in one huge book.
I have a similar HG Wells book, that has all his work.
Books are cheap AF, right now.
I buy them for less than $3, all the time from a thrift book website.
I bought a used copy of “Puppet Masters,” even though I’ve read it many times. There were unused plane tickets, in the book. I guess, as a bookmark?..
I remember thinking how cool it would be, for these older authors, to see the world they helped imagine.
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