2/ yesterday I was at B&N and picked up a collection of "year's best SF" (I forget which one). Flip to a random page, and I'm reading an alternate history (cool) where there's a trans pacific tunnel (cool!). >>>
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3/ but...nothing happens It's about a cross-racial relationship
between an Asian guy
and a divorced
white woman, who's son is a civil rights activist
teaching Southerners that they're bad
and the Asian guy says nationalism is bad
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4/ also
Keynesianism is praised
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5/ N.B. This was not me flipping through the book looking for something terrible. This was me picking a random page. Many such cases. Soy.
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Like those rainforest ants that get their nervous systems hijacked by mushrooms.
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obligatory IowaHawk tweet
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Not completely.
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Not everywhere. There's good stuff by Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher, some Alastair Reynolds on the harder-SF side. Murderbot by Martha Wells. An awesome take on alt-history Librarians in the "Invisible Library" series. 1/2
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Second that. The Invisible Library series was fantastic. There are some great newer authors, you just have to wade through more shit now to find them.
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