Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Is it just me or does KSR seem like an Ayn Rand of climate politics? Dull, didactic fiction plus weak philosophy? He’s better at both storytelling and philosophy than Rand though. Read a bunch of shorts stories and part of Red Mars before quitting. Ministry of the Future turned me off at blurb level.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Ksr reminds me more of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise He’s not polemical like rand There’s no word salad speech for instance He’s not a great storyteller though His books are more case studies from a speculative future rather than engaging novels
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