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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

      if you write some kind of speculative fiction and want to portray a tyranny but kind of skimp on describing its economy apart from gesturing that some people have money and others dont i rather disrespect your worldbuilding hayekian infohazard sorry this might ruin a book or two

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

      "what is it like for my character to try to buy a big mac. how about a house. perhaps a pistol" work through such scenarios and you will accomplish alot in terms of thinking through how the society works

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

      i dont find it credible for an author to write thousands of pages about a group of characters over years of their lives without them engaging in mundane considerations related to buying and selling normal stuff and earning money

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

      eigenrobot Retweeted ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs

      one thing I enjoyed about morlocks 1st book is that in the early chapters he has a guy thinking through how to finance his business, and a tourist being mad about a fatality resulting from an equipment rental learned alot about lunar society from thishttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1430157091759603720?s=19 …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
      2/ and economics is nothing more than caloric flows with tokens and counters and side contracts this is why when I write SF novels they have big side threads on stock shares, bonds, REITs, etc. positing a lunar revolution without a plausible funding model is just embarrassing pic.twitter.com/Ywad74wc5H
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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      le guin is not someone I likely agreed much with about lots of things but her consideration of what it would mean to have an anarchosocialist society was genuinely inspired. she didnt pull punches even though you can tell she sort of wanted it to workhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1430159014147485700?s=19 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      Replying to @bschne
      the dispossessed was fantastic here one of my favorite books about speculative political economy
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        2. Reluctant Exister‏ @IriathZhul Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I enjoyed the book but did reach a point about 2/3 through where I was like "wait. this is just the Amish. she invented the Amish"

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24
          Replying to @IriathZhul

          the true ansocs

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        2. Emma P‏ @emmaconcepts Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Great love for an author who thinks through their world so clearly that they can only create an "ambiguous utopia" out of their own ideals!

          1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24
          Replying to @emmaconcepts

          yes exactly! that kind of intellectual honesty is a real struggle for anyone

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        1. flat earth enthusiast‏ @logic_denier Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          'Always Coming Home' is maybe her more utopian vision of primitivist anarchosocialism i think the depth of thought she puts in is really astounding

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        2. Miguel Montevista‏ @MiguelMontevist Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          It's interesting to watch communists like Orwell and Miéville invent worlds that try to emulate this, then still fall into autocracy of various stripes.

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        2. Vegito Main Lives Matter‏ @J_Weenus Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Le Guin and Gene Wolfe are the two I always go to if I want to experience something truly alien, fully realized I also go to Wolfe for pretty much everything else because he kicks ass, but the point stands

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        3. Ɖana‏ @BigHotSneeze Aug 25
          Replying to @J_Weenus @ReReadingWolfe @eigenrobot

          Tanith Lee and Darrell Schweitzer do some pretty awesome weird stuff as well.

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        2. Steven  🦉 ✝️‏ @SilenicSophist Aug 24
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I've heard very good things about LeGuin, even from those who are far from her political persuasion. Haven't read her myself yet.

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 24
          Replying to @SilenicSophist

          I think the dispossessed is her best her book thats implicitly about daoism also quite good, not to be confused with her translation of the tao te ching (also good)

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