[P] "Iain M. Banks ia for kids, read Larry Niven instead."

Fuck. Yeah. I could see that. This is why I want to crawl under a rock until humanity is over, sometimes. But I really want the next Wings of Fire book so, eh.

Not much more to say, really.

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[P] Frankly, even Tui's and Pratchett's worst have more nuance, maturity, and complexity to them than GRRM's best. I just wish that more authors would stray from this poisonous notion that a "grown-up" book has to be full of bioessentialism, possessing all the subtlety & nuance of a breeze block. Frankly, I wouldn"t be surprised if those who think like this classify Iain M. Banks and Ursula K. Le Guin as for kids too.

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[P] There are unfortunate persons who'd look at me and try and insinuate that A Song of Something or Other is better written than Pratchett's Discworld. How? It has a grasp of nuance so bleakly basic it'd make a toddler blush. I'm starting to think that "grown-up" and "better written" are just synonymous with "lack of nuance" and "tribal bioessentialism." Which makes me more inclined to avoid "grown-up" books.

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[P] I mean, I look at all the hard racism, misogyny, typecaating of A Song of Fire and Ice with all of its white saviour & noble savage tropes... This is more well written than Wings of Fire, is it? Oh? It's more grown-up? Look, I don't know which metrics you're judging "grown-up" and "better" by, but NUANCE clearly isn"t it. If you'd said Discworld you would've had a better chsnce. But that's meant for kids too, isn't it?

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[P] So many books meant supposedly for adults, written supposedly by adults, rely on simple-minded, dim-witted bigotry that this series of books for children never stoops to. For all of the vaunted valour of a "grown-up" fantasy, the presence of bioessentialism makes those books, games, and films feel like they're meant for the simplest, most bigoted minds. It's deeply frustrating. Yes, WoF IS better written than most.

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[P] It makes me want to grab other writers and rub their noses in it. "This! Why not this??? Why do you have to rely on bioessentialism? Why are you typecasting groups based on how they look?? Why are you making deterministic assumptions about everyone in an entire species??? Read these books meant for children and DO BETTER." Tui has given me a taste of how much better things could be, I can't go back from that.

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