u/Thraxas89

Hello,

so a genuine question: You read a book about space travel, exploding robots and border beyond time and space, but always throught the pages you glimpse at the authors political believes and they just ... dont square with yours at all. Would you still read the book or would you put it away?

I recently finished Pandoras Star and Judas Unchained and both are terrific books. Especially the changing viewpoints are made excellent and the world building is solid.

But its pretty clear that the author is a raging Neoconservative and fan of Plutocracy. And i dont mean his characters but the author himself writes as if such a thing is inevitable and right and rich people should have all the power. Which is not what i believe in.

I recently asked a question here about it because of that and Im glad i finished the books. But it annoyed me quite a bit. After all I also read the Posleen War saga and the author there has even worse views, though he keeps it luckily way shorter.

So my question: Is that a thing for you? Do you get annoyed when authors glorify something you find appaling or do you stop reading? Perhaps its just a me thing

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So I started reading Pandoras star for the second time (I started once like 15 years ago) and now I remember why I stopped: Its total capitalist whitewashing.

Now this largely stems from the main characters being largely well of plutocrats and indeed social commentary is given (rarely).

So my question is: Will this continue and will the end of the book be something „and then the rich saved the day and all rules were lifted from them as they are the supreme masters of the human race“ or will this have at least some sembelance of idea of „perhaps its not good to gather all power in some corrupt people“ or „perhaps people shouldnt die so that rich people can gather more wealth than they could ever spend“?