I've just finished Nemesis Games from The Expanse series and holy shit, how overtly Fred Johnson turned to civility fetishism as he grew "older" and "weary" absolutely reeks of James S. A. Corey trying to write in an analogue for "more centrist and therefore wiser" without actually having to say it. Also I know he was always pretty lib, but given his reasons for defecting to the OPA it'd be nice to still hear him actually fucking analyse the power dynamics he panders to