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Western "mecha" writers 2016-11-14 04:58:23 Post No. 14932772
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Are there any good writers whose style or works are similar to mecha? I dont mean just straight up piloted giant robots, but more like science fiction with an emphasis on characters and human will. I'm sick of hard sci-fi that becomes bogged down in metal compositions of circuitboards and long political plots; I enjoy that stuff in moderation, but I would like to read something like a Gundam or Gunbuster.
Pic related, great anthology series I've been enjoying.
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>>14932772
Most hard sci-fi really only gets into the tech end of things; the writers of such fiction struggle to come up with even mediocre politics.
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>>14932772
There are a lot of good sci-writers but only a handful of western ones include /m/ stuff in their books. Mecha is more popular with Japanese and Asian writers, which makes more sense because it's mostly anime-inspired.
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This. There's nothing wrong with hard Sci-Fi in and of itself but the writers are typically really boring
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>>14932772
As cringy as this might sound, I'm working on becoming a published author who writes stories that (I hope) /m/ would find interesting. Still working on the whole "published" part though...My uber-dream is to have one of my stories made into a 12-ep anime, but lord knows that'll never happen.
That said, might want to check out the Western /m/ classics such as Starship Trooper and Forever War
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>>14932772
>Western "mecha"
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