To quote the wonderful Iain M Banks:
“Lafayette Ron Hubbard and Ayn Rand; two figures from the nineteen-fifties who still loom large today. One was a proficient if not particularly gifted Science Fiction writer who founded a bizarre cult which nowadays has many famous adherents and whose continuing influence, frankly, tests one’s faith in human nature, and the other invented Scientology.”
The problem no-one really wants to talk about is the lack of literary craftsmanship and storytelling ability and the overwhelming half-educated cleverness of it all. It’s all idea work and the further you get from the time the ideas were exciting, the more you’re left with 400-word nerd paragraphs about Future Space History or My Fetishes Are Justified By Sociology.
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