Got back into reading fiction again and I love it. Just finished The Martian, and while it was enjoyable there's some lib shit in there that annoyed the fuck out of me. I mainly enjoyed it because I'm a physicist, so I could understand all of the (mostly correct) science and how decisions were being made, and why some of them were so cool. If anyone has any recommendations for more hard Sci-fi (or from any other genres) I might enjoy, either without or with absolutely minimal lib shit, I'd be v v v grateful.
Thanks chapos! :ancom-heart:
I was super into that one until the perspective shifted from people melting in India to the climate change policy people in Switzerland. The book just got super boring for me at that point when KSR's social democratic politics began to guide the plot. I just couldn't believe that UN bureaucrats would actually be able to change anything.
Eventually, it switches again to people doing black-ops ecoterrorism by assassinating billionaires and blowing up private jets. The UN lady is kind of the narrative throughline, but she's the least interesting part of the book. There are chapters about people establishing worker owned co-op farms in India, anarchosyndicalist collectives in Spain, and a bunch of other things. The whole point of the book, I think, is that the technocratic bullshit the UN wants to do gets laughed out of the room until people start engaging in direct action. At one point, a group kidnaps Davos. All of it. It owns.
That sounds cool. I'll take another look.
If you've got the opportunity to listen to it as an audiobook, I recommend it. It's a full cast, and much of the book is composed of little one chapter "vignettes" from people around the world grappling with climate change at a local level. They're all ready by people who are actually from the region in question, and it adds a lot to the experience in my opinion.