Not purely rational you have parahumans where most protagonists' acts have some logic behind it. Not a lot of evil people just because they're evil, and not a lot of pure heroes either.
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ if you want something to read for next month(s).
And in case anyone isn’t aware, the sequel started yesterday at https://www.parahumans.net !
Re:Burn the Programmer
by pavel_lishin on Friday November 10, 2017 @01:32PM
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Seconding Unsong. The end felt kind of cheap to me, but the journey was absolutely worth it.
Agree on both counts.
How else would you have it end?
Fair question. I could not have done better. But still.
Re:Burn the Programmer
by randomstudent on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:17PM
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Unsong is not exactly rational fiction. The author itself claims it isn't (some people claim it is despite this fact, though).
I can see both sides of that argument, and I'd be lying to say I didn't consider Unsong rationalist fiction at least partly as an attempt to redeem the genre in my own estimation.
Re:Burn the Programmer
by moron4hire on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:51PM
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Authors aren't reliable narrators of their work.
Is that bad? Like any didactic subtype of the genre, rationalist fiction often struggles to succeed in both of the goals set for it; the only example I've as yet found enjoyable - and extremely so! I strongly recommend it - is Unsong by Scott Alexander, also of Slate Star Codex.