Couple of Things
* Network Effect is on the GoodReads Best Science Fiction novels of the year list: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2020 So many good books on this list
* An article by K. Eason: https://www.tor.com/2020/10/26/the-monstrous-machines-of-corporate-capitalism/ The Monstrous Machines of Corporate Capitalism
has a neat analysis of Murderbot:
And what about that humanity? Wells’ future gives us a lot more variety: queer, trans, straight, and genders found only in particular colonies; single or married monogamously or, more commonly, married with multiple partners; friends, parents, second-mothers, siblings, daughters, uncles. Murderbot treats this human diversity as unremarkable, bordering on unimportant (it never remarks on its own physical features, and because it thinks sex is gross, never comments on anyone else’s attractiveness). What does surprise it are how socioeconomic alternatives to capitalism affect the humans who live in them.
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* An article by K. Eason: https://www.tor.com/2020/10/26/the-monstrous-machines-of-corporate-capitalism/ The Monstrous Machines of Corporate Capitalism
has a neat analysis of Murderbot:
And what about that humanity? Wells’ future gives us a lot more variety: queer, trans, straight, and genders found only in particular colonies; single or married monogamously or, more commonly, married with multiple partners; friends, parents, second-mothers, siblings, daughters, uncles. Murderbot treats this human diversity as unremarkable, bordering on unimportant (it never remarks on its own physical features, and because it thinks sex is gross, never comments on anyone else’s attractiveness). What does surprise it are how socioeconomic alternatives to capitalism affect the humans who live in them.
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