Requesting recommendations for crime/detective/pulp thrillers that are left-wing or at least non-CHUD.

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    4 years ago

    I guess the first book of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - is non-CHUD, as it criticizes billionaires heavily and it definitely has a noir atmosphere mixed with its cyberpunk atmosphere. The noir part disappears from the two following books though.

    Also, the trilogy as a whole is definitely leftists as you end up...

    Slight spoiler

    ...following a group of anarchists bent on destroying a multiplanetary oligarchy

    Also, even the first book has Quellcrist Falconer and that's a bad-ass leftist character.