There's a Blood Knife article https://bloodknife.com/inadequacy-of-inspirational-scifi/ https://bloodknife.com/inadequacy-of-inspirational-scifi/ critiquing Ste

There's a Blood Knife article https://bloodknife.com/inadequacy-of-inspirational-scifi/ https://bloodknife.com/inadequacy-of-inspirational-scifi/ critiquing Stephenson that makes an interesting companion read to this. I have enjoyed Stephenson's novels tremendously, but when OP says they're not "preachy," that is rather a whopper — particularly thinking of _Cryptonomicon,_ but _Termination Shock_ also digresses into it.