75/ Foundation by Isaac Asimov Asimov's reputation diminishes as time passes, for 2 reasons, 1 good, 1 bad. The valid reason is that his stories were so so and his characters were cardboard. The invalid reason is the "trope creator" problem - seems old hat bc he CREATED stuff
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76/ ha, ha, yes, I was going to get to this ! Very strange - humans on a completely alien planet ( are they even in our universe? geometry is weird and the stars seem impossible ) must drag their mobile city across the landscape.https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1331604112857833473 …
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77/ oh, crap, yes Tweet #72 in this sequence conflated two things. Ship of Fools is EXCELLENT, but I gave the DESCRIPTION of this novel instead (which is also recommended)https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1331604365031989248 …
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78/ The Girl Who Owned a City, O. T. Nelson A YA apocalyptic novel where a plague kills all of the adults and a 12 year old girl must organize a defense of the children she protects from rival gangs who try to steal their food. Libertarianism smuggled in. Formative for me.
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79/ Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson. Huge crystal monuments start appearing, sent from the future, and documenting the battles fought by a near future warlord as he takes over the planet. The chronoliths inspire the battles and wars they document. But...
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80/ Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes (no relation to Daniel Keyes Moran in #61 in this thread). A heart breaking story about intelligence. Relevant to Freddie deBoer's recent non-fiction writings on intelligence, poverty, etc.
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btw, side note: I talk a ton about how science fiction has been hollowed out and ruined by SJWs ...but in this thread I am mentioning a ton of great stories by left wing authors. >>>
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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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