Philosophical interestingness ranking of sci-fi universes (in terms of meaningfulness, complexity, intelligibility...): 12. Star Wars 11. MCU 10. Doctor Who 9. Dune 8. Star Trek 7. Foundation 6. Deepness in the Sky 5. Hainish 4. Schismatrix 3. Rick & Morty 2. HHG 1. Culture
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People hating on R&M bring so high, I get it. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty.
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Unpopular opinion but Dune is below Star Trek because it is pseudo-deep and too impressed with itself. Premium mediocre intellectualism. Star Trek is middlebrow and knows it. Self awareness gains big points on my scale.https://twitter.com/ykgoon/status/1318059482048385024?s=21 …
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I think I like 2nd order worlds that subvert first-order ones. Like Dune is too primal-archetypal to be interesting. But the interesting ones need them to have something to subvert. Dune parody references are more interesting than Dune itself.
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Haha, the rest do explain the shrike
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Total ripoff
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Simmons also can't write women worth a damn, but does enjoy objectifying his female characters early and often.
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First book was just the first half of the planned story Shrike is an eternal(atemporal) character, it gets more complex as the series progresses 2nd novel was just as good, lovely, worthwhile - more literary than philosophical
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dang. Missing out. Where does 3 Body fit in?
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The Shrike plot is never "resolved" so much as almost admitted to be a deus ex machina. But it's a good deus ex machina. Like the appearance of cybertron in the Ninja Robots series.
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