71/ The January Dancer, Up Jim River, etc. by Michael Flynn Small scale interstellar spy adventure, set in a background that explicates Flynn's great ideas about cultural evolution, facts becoming narrative becoming myth, and the fragility of the scientific method
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I am not against lefties writing SF; they write some of the BEST SF, and the field would be a pale imitation of what it is, if not for their contributions, and the interplay of left, right, and center voices. I am against one particular thing: the fact that a subset of lefties >
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more or less took over the field ~20 years ago and acted as gatekeepers to silence voices that were not in lockstep with their own the result is that Tor and others publish almost exclusively women, trans, and gay men who toe a very narrow party line on pretty much everything
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if I could wave a wand, I would not say "turnabout is fair play" and throw the commies out of the field ; the result of that would be terrible. Nothing but endless red-tribe prepper fiction and third rate Heinlein pastiche. The field needs the constant interplay of opinions.
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It needs Heinlein writing the quasi fascist Starship Troopers, and Haldemann - who, unlike Heinlein, had actually seen combat - rebutting it with The Forever War. It needs Ecotopia, and it needs Fallen Angels to mock ecotopians. Feedback loops create health.
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One party states create gray Brezhnevite lassitude, illness, and - finally - death.
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not sure if this is a subtweet addition to my thread or just coincidence, but it fits into my point perfectlyhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1331615475827159040 …
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