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.

@Fourth_Dogma @mekkaokereke I heartily second _A Memory Called Empire_. One of the best SF books I've read in the past 20 years. Easily the equal of NK Jemisin's _The Fifth Season_.

Bonus points because the hegemonic colonials in _A Memory Called Empire_ are *not* European-based (they're Mayan!).

@mdm @Fourth_Dogma @mekkaokereke

Arkady Martine based her Teixcalaanli on both the Byzantine Empire and the Aztecs.

(Since she has a PhD in Byzantine history.)