🤦🏿♂️Actually, nevermind.
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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.@mekkaokereke Underground Airlines by Ben H Winters?
Modern era but the US civil war never happened and a (genuine) proposed settlement still in force, US internationally isolated as South Africa was in the 1980s. Protagonist is an escaped save captured and forced to assist the US Marshalls in their (genuine pre civil war era) task of capturing slaves who has escaped to the "free states" -
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.
@mekkaokereke The entire Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. It started addressing many of the issues we're seeing in the 80s.
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@mekkaokereke @s_wilson In that case, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (their other books are mostly fantasy) and anything by Octavia E. Butler.
@JonnyT @mekkaokereke the dispossessed...
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@mekkaokereke Ok not sci-fi. But if you like historical stuff, around Bletchly Park...I really loved Rose Code by Kate Quinn.
@mekkaokereke I find it difficult to understand why so many white-cis-het-men find it so difficult to understand that there are so many amazing people who are not white-cis-het-men
And that this diversity is a wonderful thing!
I can't imagine such a lonely existence.
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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?
@mekkaokereke thanks for the heads-up, I had an unread book of his in my ebook library I've now moved to the 'meh' (ie no longer interested in reading) shelf.
Nameless by @Impossible_PhD and The Mune by Sue Dawes are a couple of excellent inclusive sci-fi books. And Becky Chambers' books and Murderbot, but I think most people know that
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@mekkaokereke if you haven’t read them yet, Malka Olders Centenal Cycle is pretty good @older
@mekkaokereke @older
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@mekkaokereke @s_wilson In that case, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (their other books are mostly fantasy) and anything by Octavia E. Butler.
@mekkaokereke @s_wilson (Edited my post in a nod to Le Guin's biggest regret about LH of D, and because I made an assumption I shouldn't have made).
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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?
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io sci-fi career speedrun [NEW WR] (heinlein%)
i'm kidding ofc I don't think this will affect his career at all. For some reason, right wing/anti-woke grifting on podcasts specifically just seems to fly under a lot of radars. The amount of people who have no idea that Steven Bartlett is a race-science-indulging incel is staggering considering his podcast is his primary income and that's where he showcases that -
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!
@mekkaokereke Oh no. Andy Weir is a dbag? I was going to watch that movie but no longer. Thank you for the thread.
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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.
@mekkaokereke I can recommend the half build garden by @r_emrys
It's near future science fiction where we're trying to cleanup the earth, but then aliens arrive.
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@mekkaokereke Ok not sci-fi. But if you like historical stuff, around Bletchly Park...I really loved Rose Code by Kate Quinn.
@mekkaokereke ok I also really love @scalzi. His "when the moon hits your eye" is an experiment is story telling. Brave follow through on an unconventional format.
I love all his books, so I gave this one a chance, even though I was confused for a bit.
But it's little stories, of regular people, over a month of time with weird stuff going on with the moon. Yeah, it turns into cheese.
Fun, and poignant, and satisfying.
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