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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by johnchristopher on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:31AM (#25926076)
I love Ted Chiang's works. With Baxter and Robert Chales Wilson he's in my top 5 (SF or not I think) author.

But Ken Liu ? I can't stand. It feels like grandiloquent teen SF to me.

I haven't read enough from Ted Chiang yet (or he hasn't published enough) but Baxter and Wilson seem stuck in their themes of predilection now.

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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by ahelwer on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:54AM (#25928920)
I'm assuming you've read The Man Who Ended History by Ken Liu? If not I found it really good, if disturbing. (pdf: https://kenliu.name/binary/liu_the_man_who_ended_history.pdf)
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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by johnchristopher on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:32AM (#25930240)
No, I got my hands on a short stories book.

I'll give it another try, thanks.

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