An old Reddit post recommended the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson so I’m giving that a shot and I figured I’d ask c/Books if you had any suggestions.

  • protochud [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    everyone talks about kim stanley robinson, but what's easy to miss is how much he was influenced by philip k dick. while PKD is not marxist per se, KSR does argue in episode 40 of the antifada that PKD is "without being intensely theoretical [...] he's [...] instinctively anti-capitalist."

    from wikipedia : "In 1982 Robinson earned a PhD in English from UC San Diego.[4] His initial PhD advisor was literary critic and Marxist scholar Fredric Jameson,[6] who told Robinson to read works by Philip K. Dick. Jameson described Dick to Robinson as "the greatest living American writer".[4] Robinson's doctoral thesis, The Novels of Philip K. Dick, was published in 1984 and a hardcover version was published by UMI Research Press."