Mastodawn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116305793811427182

I'd been thinking about making some time to read _Project Hail Mary_ so I could go see the movie and join the convo about it. And then I read this 👇🏻.

Nice to not have to crowbar that into my schedule, but overall? I'd rather Andy Weir had just not been a shitwaffle. Seriously, I am _so sick and tired_ of white-guy SF authors turning out to be right-wing assholes.

(Also, the thing about "there's no symbolism or themes in my work"... dafuq? Why would any writer say something like that? 🤯🤡)

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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

@kagan @mekkaokereke

Unfortunately White Male SF authors especially Hard Science SF Writers get drawn to Right Wing Culture.
Historically it was Heinlein, Anderson and Pournelle browbeating fans and up and coming writers…now it’s nearly automatic.

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Tito Swineflu 1d ago

@MedeaVanamonde @kagan @mekkaokereke Of course, the exception to the right wing culture trend is THE culture, although right wingers with poor reading comprehension seem to think those books speak to them as well.

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Kagan MacTane (he/him)1d ago

@tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke You mean the Iain Banks series? I've been meaning to try those out sometime.

Also shout-out to James S.A. Corey's _The Expanse_ for being non-right-wing.

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Steve Gisselbrecht 1d ago

@kagan @tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke

The Culture novels are so, so, SO good. Seeing someone say "Oh yeah I've been meaning to read those" makes me wanna scream RUN TO THE BOOKSTORE they are amazing and wonderful.

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Steve Gisselbrecht

@kagan @tito_swineflu @MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke

NB that Banks, in some interview or something, said that his friends basically staged an intervention at some point and said, Okay, Iain, you are allowed ONE (1) socialist rant per novel, and once you know that while reading his books you can always see it. Oh, yeah, here's the Designated Socialist Rant.