It’s impossible to know. One thing I love about sci-fi is that it let’s you tell a story that interrogates people’s beliefs without them realizing it until later. They don’t talk about racism, they talk about aliens, for example. If you tell people that you’re saying their beliefs are wrong, they’re not going to listen to you. If you tell them it isn’t political, they may engage with it an accidentally absorb the message.
i mean artemis explicitly has a black female muslim protagonist, which he got a lot of flak for since identity is political for some people. project hail mary is about the whole world banding together to fight catastrophic climate change. for him to have written those things, and then tell a right-winger in an interview that his books are nonpolitical while nutrek is too political, to me can only be ignorance.
that would require him to realize that he was indeed speaking to “the other side”. i don’t think he did.
It’s impossible to know. One thing I love about sci-fi is that it let’s you tell a story that interrogates people’s beliefs without them realizing it until later. They don’t talk about racism, they talk about aliens, for example. If you tell people that you’re saying their beliefs are wrong, they’re not going to listen to you. If you tell them it isn’t political, they may engage with it an accidentally absorb the message.
i mean artemis explicitly has a black female muslim protagonist, which he got a lot of flak for since identity is political for some people. project hail mary is about the whole world banding together to fight catastrophic climate change. for him to have written those things, and then tell a right-winger in an interview that his books are nonpolitical while nutrek is too political, to me can only be ignorance.