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So, I've started reading The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which Jay gave to me. It's epic fantasy, which is not exactly what my brain is in the mood for right now but it's pretty damn readable. Will say more as it goes on, I am sure.
This means I have finished with Stirling, and wow am I ever finished with Stirling forever. The last of the stories in A Good Old-Fashioned Future was both genuinely interesting and stunningly wallbanging. It's called Taklamakhan and has robots and mechanical evolution and hundred-year-starships and the problem of using outer space to divide the already fractured human race. It also has more creepy unnamed Asians trying to conquer everything via economics, epic cissexism, and all with the weird feeling that it might all be hipster racism ie. Stirling knows how shitty it is but is doing it anyway, but it might not - there were these moments of self-awareness that I just wanted to grab and yank out of the text into daylight but couldn't.
However. A few days ago I decided that Stirling's shitness would make a perfect non-sequitur response to all internet conversations about the LHM. I tried it out on an fs subthread and determined that it was good. I guess this is why 99% of all internet conversations about the LHM make me want to /ignore forever - however terrible it is, almost everything else is worse, including things that are greatly lauded such as stupid Stirling.
This means I have finished with Stirling, and wow am I ever finished with Stirling forever. The last of the stories in A Good Old-Fashioned Future was both genuinely interesting and stunningly wallbanging. It's called Taklamakhan and has robots and mechanical evolution and hundred-year-starships and the problem of using outer space to divide the already fractured human race. It also has more creepy unnamed Asians trying to conquer everything via economics, epic cissexism, and all with the weird feeling that it might all be hipster racism ie. Stirling knows how shitty it is but is doing it anyway, but it might not - there were these moments of self-awareness that I just wanted to grab and yank out of the text into daylight but couldn't.
However. A few days ago I decided that Stirling's shitness would make a perfect non-sequitur response to all internet conversations about the LHM. I tried it out on an fs subthread and determined that it was good. I guess this is why 99% of all internet conversations about the LHM make me want to /ignore forever - however terrible it is, almost everything else is worse, including things that are greatly lauded such as stupid Stirling.