I'm making it sound more flat than it is, but it's definitely there

Earth is portrayed not so great with UBI

Mars doesn't have UBI

Mars is like a libertarianish society

terraforming mars

There's a lot there, it's just it really occured to me about how belters are just the evils of colonialism narrative put in space

Like "hey, we wanted to keep these traditions" so some rebel and ask for everything to be returned to normal
But then most people are pretty okay with having proper agriculture and not sacrificing children to appease spirits and shit, and the officials just want everyone to shut up and assimilate to the degree that it creates stability and profitability

Ah

After books 4 is when I started going meh

On earth there's like illegal people because they force abortions

and without a real identity you cant get UBI on earth

Ah

so there's a whole underclass of criminals

there's interesting stuff in the Expanse still, the first 2 books are good, I think it really falls off at 4

A lot of the SF people are extreme shitlibs, and it shows in a lot of newer books IMO

Really I'm fine dropping a series short as long as the narrative threads have some sort of cut in the middle

Like a timelapse or they solve the interesting problems

Expanse has like 10-30 year jumps in the later books

the first 2 wrap up the main story, but there's a thread you can complete with book 4 if you want

I haven't read any VanderMeer but I wat thinking about giving it a try

event hough he seems just like the nutty feminazi that wrote the Anscillary justice book about the Ship AIs and cultures with no concept of "gender"

Annihilation seems very Roadside Picnic inspired

But few are as based as Russian sci fi writers tbh

I've just sort of accepted you can't avoid some pozz and them trying to slide their politics in with any SF unless you find virtual unknown indie authors online.

I didn't notice it in the Expanse as much until the other day when I found another clip of Abraham pronoucning that Trump is indeed Hitler

You got names for some of these based Russians?

are books in English?

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-pepe-the-frog-sad-pepe-crying-tears-gif-7939264

Too bad I can't read russian

Roadside Picnic would be one. I need to read the other Strugatsky works. One just got translated a couple years back

Theres also the dystopian precursor, We, by Zamyatin

I sort of enjoyed Metro but I need to give it another read-through

Metro 2033 and Roadside Picnic are the ones I've read. They are fantastic books, but fuck are they depressing, Roadside Picnic especially.

The Doomed City is the one that got released more recently
The Zamyatin book is very short. I honestly find aspects of it to be the most horrifying of the dystopian fiction I've read

We is old

I read that long ago

god, twitter is just ass cancer... https://twitter.com/mhetrick14/status/1206313316974510086

@Beemann Annihilation is worth a watch. It has a mopey ending but its not a BAD ending. It just kind of ends.

Overall a really good movie though.

One again Israel does the world’s dirty work. https://btnews.online/denmark-israels-mossad-gave-the-intel-to-prevent-jihadi-massacres-on-danish-soil/

@Old Man Hound I saw the film first. I honestly thought the ending was pretty awful but the rest of it was good