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I'm quite liking the one I am reading now. I will maybe have to save that for last if you think it's the best. I love pulp sci-fi, probably my favorite genre of fiction.
I haven't read it yet, so idk, but I would consider a lot of Philip K Dick's stories pulp and like half of them come across like he was trying to be the Kafka of sci-fi.
Yeah, I love that stuff too. As much as I like stuff like The Expanse, I grew up on the classics like Asimov and am currently really enjoying Pluribus. I saw there are some haters on here (regarding the latter) but I agree with the line that it is not necessarily anti-communist drivel but more conceptual thought experiment type sci-fi.
Oh I was referring to Pluribus. I am firmly in the "we are still allowed to enjoy things" camp. I still love the Ender's Game books for example, even though I have revisited the series with a Marxist lens.
Oh yeah it's real bad, but I also like Dune which is chock full of eugenics and it is pretty clear even in the shadow spinoff that all they did was create narcissistic monsters.
Also both Ender's siblings are pretty prescient in terms of the rise of social media influencer celebs now that I think of it.
I also maintain (and my memory is very foggy) the one story about the other kid that ends up spilling the beans and telling all the other kids that were subject to the same project they put Ender through was pretty good where he, at the last moment tells them what they are doing, was pretty good.
I haven't read the spinoff series in about 25 years.