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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

Helinlein stayed in the navy long enough to pick up all their authoritarian traditions and buy into them full throatedly, but not long enough to go into combat and see them all falling apart and gain some wisdom about it.

He is fine and he wrote some gems but his political viewpoint is a bunch of poo poo.

Edit: Also, WTF, I am listening and who has a problem with Andy Weir?

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I know some people consider Weir to be an Ernest Cline-esque hack. I can’t comment as I haven’t read any Weir stuff myself.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I loved The Martian and had high hopes for his followup novel. Artemis was so bad it put me off his writing. I'm told the book after Artemis was better, but I have lots of other authors to spend time with before I risk it again.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I’ve heard the same about Artemis.

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