I have an aspiration to re-read Spock's World and Cyteen every year, because they act as a moral reset button to me, as well as being enjoyable.
Spock's World is about community, IDIC, and how overlooking the good of the one in search for the good of the many results in good for none.
Cyteen is about the problem of being one of the smartest people you know and how to protect yourself from becoming a worse monster than you strictly have to be.
(I recommend it to people who are now heartbroken over Ender's Game, with content notes including: atypical neurotype representation(ish), minimally angstful bisexuality, teenagers being teenagers, super reliable narrators, SFnal drug use (sanctioned and unsanctioned), alcohol use, institutionalized/medicalized slavery, medical and psychological mind control, trauma bonds, sexual predation from an older authority figure, murder, intellectarchy, a massive surveillance state, insular communities, and probably more that I can't recall off the top of my head.)
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on 2020-05-04 09:14 pm (UTC)Spock's World is about community, IDIC, and how overlooking the good of the one in search for the good of the many results in good for none.
Cyteen is about the problem of being one of the smartest people you know and how to protect yourself from becoming a worse monster than you strictly have to be.
(I recommend it to people who are now heartbroken over Ender's Game, with content notes including: atypical neurotype representation(ish), minimally angstful bisexuality, teenagers being teenagers, super reliable narrators, SFnal drug use (sanctioned and unsanctioned), alcohol use, institutionalized/medicalized slavery, medical and psychological mind control, trauma bonds, sexual predation from an older authority figure, murder, intellectarchy, a massive surveillance state, insular communities, and probably more that I can't recall off the top of my head.)