Heh. This is funny, because I've occasionally heard Scalzi's military SF
described as "left wing."
("Morally depraved." Now that's a phrase you just don't hear anymore. Been
reading Gardiner?)
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM, cd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> PS: For those who've not read the novel, I should mention what I left
> out above: that the author clearly endorses this kind of behavior by
> humans. This is not Stephen Baxter, who portrays an evil human race
> and clearly thinks that it is evil. Scalzi never offers a single
> alternative ethical view except by asses, and he portrays all aliens
> as either religious maniacs or motivated by a desire to eat human
> flesh. Moral reflection for the characters is limited to discussing
> how much they miss pie; they never, literally never, express the
> slightest bit of empathy or sympathy for other kinds of living things.
>
> >
>
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