Doesn't need to be explicitly political can just be vibes. I'm just getting very tired of every main character being either a gruff rugged individualist or a bazinga nerdy individualist. Thanks

  • BatsAreRats [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars Trilogy is pretty good but definitely not for everyone (dude has a loooooot of landscape descriptions also some weird sex scenes). From those books and some of his others he seems kinda libby but maybe okay, his stuff is good tho imo

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      he's a demsoc through and through like old school kind not just a succdem with a red coat of paint. his future sci-fi stuff is FALGSC as hell but his modern day works are very, very lib.

      • BatsAreRats [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        yeah thats a good description of his politics I think.

        Also I dont know if you have read it but, Green Earth (I think its a newish rework+compilation of some of his older stuff) was a absolute slog to get through, I fucking hate the main character smh

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          i have little love for any of his characters. like there's some memorable ones from the mars trilogy and i felt some connection to Sax as his brain rebooted and he after he was tortured and became a different kind of neuroatypical but that's it. i tried reading 2312 but didn't like any of the characters. it sucks because his world building is superb and kind of inspirational

          • BatsAreRats [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            yep I totally feel that, Love the worlds but hate the people in them lol