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Unfortunately the political plot is “Hillary Clinton fails to engage with reality and it falls to genius billionaire Elon Musk and a self-insert modelled on Nei
by moomin 2y ago
Unfortunately the political plot is “Hillary Clinton fails to engage with reality and it falls to genius billionaire Elon Musk and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson and a self-insert to save the day.” which has, and I think this is an understatement, aged extremely badly.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoI liked the part where one of the tech CEOs ate a bit of radioactive nickel or whatever and diarrhead to death.
- blkhawk 2y agoIt might age like fine wine once the current political situation passes. The self insert part is also very uncharitable.
- moomin 2y agoUncharitable, yes, but bluntly, he’s got form. Look at Dodge in Reamde. And I dunno about age improving it. Niven and Pournelle’s politics just looks kind of ridiculous now, even if you don’t know exactly who they had a bee in their bonnet about.
- Vecr 2y ago> and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson I don't think that's horribly unrealistic, is it? He's pretty much a scientist the media picked to represent the topic, like Dr. Fauci in real life. They could have picked a coronavirologist, but they didn't.