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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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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the true ansocs
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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!
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yes exactly! that kind of intellectual honesty is a real struggle for anyone
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'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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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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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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Tanith Lee and Darrell Schweitzer do some pretty awesome weird stuff as well.
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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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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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