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Good science fiction writers. Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, even Orson Scott Card I'd trust more than today's politicians.
by hallway_monitor 3y ago
Good science fiction writers. Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, even Orson Scott Card I'd trust more than today's politicians.
- rurp 3y agoI'm not sure we want Orson Scott Card deciding the future of humanity given his outspoken racist and homophobic beliefs, not to mention his warnings about Obama raising a secret army to become the next Hitler.
- jacquesm 3y agoAll four of those have some asterisks after their name that you may want to become familiar with.
- marcellus23 3y agoWho doesn't?
- dekhn 3y agoPlease say what you mean.
- jacquesm 3y agoIf you insist: - Heinlein https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/03/robert-a-heinlein-the-giant-of-sf-was-sexist-racist-and-certainly-no-stylist/ - Asimov https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/ - Clarke https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjxp5m/we-asked-people-what-childhood-moment-shaped-them-the-most (nebulous, but credible) - Orson Scott Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Homosexuality_2 Sorry if that toppled any of your heroes. I have book by all of them on my shelves but they're not necessarily saints.
- dekhn 3y agoNone of them were my heroes, except card before he wrote Speaker for the Dead. More importantly, if you don't like somebody, don't just hint at it- give us a link.
- louky 3y agoSorry that Heinlein one is paywalled I'll look further. I've read all his stuff, even the horrible mess of the last books and posthumous thing. He was completely into turning into a woman even early on much less the book where he had his brain put into a secretary who died in an accident and went into the ramifications. I say he as Lazarus Long and the rest were him.
- defrost 3y agoHeinlein article: https://archive.md/ojvdU https://archive.md/ojvdU archive.xxx is prblematic at best if you use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS, fine with other providers, Quad9, Google, etc.
- JieJie 3y agoFair enough. They were as ahead of their time as they were behind ours.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoDo you not read authors that don't have sparkly clean private lives? What authors are approved for reading? I want to make sure I fit into the perfect cookie cutter world views.
- jacquesm 3y agoWho said I don't read them?
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoGot it. Had to re-read thread, you were responding to someone else that put these authors on a pedestal, to be trusted more than corporate leaders. And you were just saying, as good as the books were, they aren't saints either.
- ak217 3y agoI have my doubts that those are good choices. But I would cautiously suggest Stephenson and Vinge.
- adolph 3y agoPhilip K Dick for all the boards