RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116290338892571761
🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind.
Why is everything like this?
The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why?
Why was that necessary?
I'm not saying don't watch the movie or read the book. Do whatever makes you happy.
I'm also not interested in debating how much inclusion is in his stories, whether he realizes it or not.
And I'm not interested in comparing even bigger, "super woke" sci-fi franchises like Star Trek or Star Wars.
I'm just saying that I personally watched the last one (The Martian), and I watched this one (Project Hail Mary), but you can guess if I'm watching the next one.
So many choices in entertainment.
The actions that attract the MAGA customer base will probably alienate me, and vice versa. That's OK!
Whether or not I watch his next movie doesn't really matter that much to him. He's not going to go broke and that's okay. Good actually!
But it's so hard to be an author, let alone a woman author, in sci-fi, who tells stories with good representation? Those authors don't need to be punched down on.
🤔Now I need to buy two IMAX tickets worth of sci-fi books written by authors that aren't anti-woke, just to put my part of the universe back in balance.
🤔Actually to properly balance things out, I have to keep reading new sci-fi books until I find one that I can recommend to thousands of people.
You're right! They don't have to be new!
@hypostase @JonnyT @mekkaokereke @s_wilson Le Guin was a fucking genius.
Also recommending "The Dispossessed". Blew my mind.
For something more recent, Ann Leckie is a solid choice, and Becky Chambers if you want something really wholesome.
@forse @hypostase @JonnyT @mekkaokereke @s_wilson
The whole Hainish cycle is wonderful, yes, but The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are the best.
Iain M. Banks (""Money implies poverty") was also woke before the conservatives discovered the word and oriented their culture wars around it, in the Culture people change their gender by meditating on it and the social norm is to father one child and mother one child, if one is into procreation, of course. :-)
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