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Recently, every sci-fi series I've been reading on an ongoing basis, for several years, have all descended swiftly into tone-ignoring SJW political preaching. It's stunning.
I'm not saying I want to read stuff that panders to my political views, I just want stuff that isn't preaching bullshit at me. I'm happy if it's essentially politically neutral.
So, any recommendations for recent series that aren't full of preachy nonsense? Also I guess general author vs work/should authors fill their books with politics thread.
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>science fiction series
Sorry, this is a literature board.
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>>8253391
>reading genre fiction
You deserved it desu
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>>8253398
Oh. I always thought that reading fiction helped improve one's imagination, creativity, vocabulary, reading comprehension, visualization, and abstract thinking.
You've really opened my eyes, thank you.
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>>8253430
I haven't been on lit in months. But I'll go check out someone else's thread on this topic I guess.
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Despite what others will say, reading genre literature isn't the problem here. Reading serial literature, though, is. We haven't had actually literary serial works since Dickens (with the possible exception [though a rather lowbrow one] of Wolfe).
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this is really good noir sci-fi and has at least one sequel, although I've heard that's not as good. it's well written but without any pretensions to being Literature, with an interesting premise involving uploading minds from one body to another.
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>>8254276
>with the possible exception of Wolfe
If you're referring to the original new sun, that wasn't a serial
OP>it's true though, if you're explicitly seeking out "series" your taste must be shit.
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Honestly, ongoing series have structural drawbacks that prevent them from being as artful. Think of all the shitty TV shows you've watched where the plot just diarrhead everywhere once the writers exhausted their initial planning.
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>>8253391
Go to bed, Ted.
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>>8253391
Sadly a lot of my favorite military SF writers have done the exact same thing, except in the opposite direction. John Ringo basically writes novel-length Facebook rants against globalism these days.
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>>8254295
two sequels actually. and its not that they arent as good they are just toned down, less cyberpunk and closer to straight up si-fi
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>>8253391
Read anything other than the new stuff.
Izzy asimov, orwell, and PK dick
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>>8253391
The Wool books by Hugh Howey I guess, but those have such basic writing, it's like a children's novel with an adult storyline. He has some neat ideas for settings.
A few years ago I read this book called The Passage by Justin Cronin, that has some sequels. I don't remember any sjwness in it.
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your fault for reading genreshit, pleb
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