I mostly read (hard) sci-fi written by straight white dudes, so the tweet on the screenshot made me feel a bit defensive. In the replies and qrts people are patting themselves on the back for reading marginalized fantasy writers exclusively and this "consumption as activism" seems rad-libby to me, but maybe I'm wrong.

    • Anemasta [any]
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      3 years ago

      But I don't want original. I want the same books Peter Watts and Greg Egan had written twenty years ago.

        • Anemasta [any]
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          3 years ago

          But I get glimpses occasionally. I'm sure I can get back. Peter Watts is probably writing Blindsight 3 right now...

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I think reading Peter Watts as your comfort books is about the most distressing idea I've heard expressed today.