The guy was prolific, so I can't claim to have read everything he ever wrote, nor will I pretend that there's nothing to critique in what I did. But overwhelmingly, what I remember about his books is a profound sense of empathy for people, and respect for the harm caused by war.
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His female characters had agency and sexual autonomy. There were married women who bantered happily (and sometimes unhappily) with each other about their husbands' failings. There were sex workers who weren't demonised or othered, but empathised with in the text.
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There were stories about how war scars the landscape forever, and a recurring theme of war and violence taking more from the world - magically, spiritually and culturally - than good people could hope to replenish with the same ease.
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There were multiple books about imperialism; about characters from contextually marginalised cultures struggling to preserve their identities and traditions in the face of oppression, who went inside the institutions of their enemies despite this to learn how to beat them.
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