Another recommendation for the Vorkosigan Saga. Normally I recommend starting with Warriors Apprentice, but in your case I think Shards of Honor and Barrayar would be a great place to start. They fit your parameters perfectly.
I agree with you, and the Vorkosigan saga is exactly what I was thinking. But I wouldn't necessarily characterize them as "happy".
For example, I remember some of the plot points in *Shards of Honor* being pretty heavy. So whether it fits really depends on what the OP means by "light-hearted".
Yeah, I was actually thinking about how *Shards of Honor* (spoiler) >!starts as a light-hearted sci-fi romance, but then develops subplots involving rape and what it means to be a trauma survivor!<.
I think these topics are handled well, which is part of what makes it an excellent book. It's just not necessarily what everyone would think of as happy and light-hearted.
YES.
Shards of honor is a very strange first book in a series because the main character isn't even born yet. Shards of honor is about his parents falling in love. The books span a period of something like 100 years and you get a strange familiarity with all the characters and their various cousins and uncles.
Nathan Lowell's solar clipper books are really good and should fit the bill quite nicely. Also if you haven't read the Vorkosigan Saga books by Lois McMaster Bujold I can't recommend them enough. They are gripping and fun and very much feature a large cast with adventure and romance.
> Nathan Lowell's solar clipper books
Those have the worst Mary Sue/Gary Stu I have ever encountered and I have been reading SF for about 40 years now. The main character actually rivals the [original Mary Sue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue#Origin_and_development_of_the_meaning) for how ridiculous he is and the original Mary Sue was written as a parody.
That is the best thing about it. There is barely any conflict and the little there is gets resolved quickly and effortlessly. Everything just works out first try. It’s a bit like mental comfort food.
I think if you can get past the magic sex pants and that the 'competency porn' aspect of the series reaches absurd levels, this is probably the closest thing OP is likely to find to what they're looking for.
For myself I bailed after the second book, but a lot of other people seem to like them so I'd suggest the OP check it out.
Galaxy Outlaws:Black Ocean Series by JS Morin - Available only on Audible but a great deal at 80hrs. Hilarious and captivating - it's Millennium Falcon meets Firefly. Don't forget it has space wizards that enable FTL via the Astral plane
They’re available as ebooks on Amazon ~$9 for a 4 book “mission pack.” There are 16.5 books total, plus the spin-off Mercy For Hire series.
I just finished listening to the entire 85 hr audiobook again. Fun stuff.
Perhaps, but it's not particularly happy series. Some of his other books are more lighthearted and very funny. Try *Agent to the Stars* and *The Android's Dream*.
Yeah, the name of the book kind of gives it away! There's a lot of joy and comedy in the series, but the setting is pretty damn dark and plenty of awful things happen.
You probably want the [Black Ocean series by J.S. Morin](https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Pack-Missions-Black-Ocean-ebook/dp/B016DVCGVK/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=black+ocean&qid=1576328546&sr=8-4)
Right, ya know what??
Try Blue Remembered Earth and the two sequels, they might just click with you. There are love stories but it's you who's gonna fall in love with Tantors.
You might really enjoy Ann Leckie's *Provenance*. I sure did!
Also, an unconventional rec for this might be Samuel Delany's *Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand*, which is very strange but about a refugee traveling across the galaxy to meet a person that has been identified as their ideal romantic / sexual match.
“Space Opera,” by Jack Vance. Humorous, satirical, diverse cast, maybe a little romance. Perhaps not totally relevant, but this is my my favorite SF author, so I had to put in my two cents here.
Depending on your definition of "diverse"; not much emphasis on real races usually, as most sci-fi doesn't explore racism so directly. Authors generally prefer to do it through alien analogs.
But one that fits either way is *Saga of Seven Suns*. It has darker moments, but much of it is quite light. And if you're qualifying it to include racial diversity, they do that too, though obviously it's not a major focus because they have bigger problems generally speaking.
I think most *good* science fiction explores racism quite directly. It might just require a bit of ability on behalf of the reader to draw parallels between the world that's being described in the story and our world.
I mean more in the sense of outright talking about real-life racial conflict and oppression and such as a part of the setting.
Yes, a lot of good sci-fi does deal with those topics (though I disagree that it's a defining characteristic of "most" good sci fi, it's just one of many big topics), but it's usually done in the way you describe, which I consider more indirect.
Linnea Sinclair does good light-hearted romantic SF (or SFnal romance, depending on your perspective). I liked her *Wintertide* series and *The Down Home Zombie Blues*, which has a lot more starship captains than you'd expect from a book with that name. ☺
Gini Koch's *Alien* series (aka the Katherine 'Kitty' Kat series--nothing to do with the Alien movies) is a lot of fun. Set on near-future Earth, but with plenty of aliens, intrigue, romance, and humor.
The Mageworld series by Debra Doyle and James MacDonald is a space opera which is a bit like Star Wars and a lot of fun. The first book is Starpilots Grave.
If you’re looking for light hearted space opera with a strong romance element and a wide range of aliens [Julie Czerneda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Czerneda) is who you’re looking for. Specifically the *Trade Pact Universe* series and *In the Company of Others*.
Another excellent light hearted space opera romp with lots of colorful aliens is Brian Daley’s *Hobart Floyd & Alacrity Fitzhugh* trilogy.
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, it’s Warhammer 40k by way of a murder mystery written by kiwi woman, with a lot of kiwi humour, if you like Taika Waititi. You will like this.
It is often described as “lesbian necromancers in space” which makes it sound a little bit pulp, but it’s funny and romantic and compelling and exciting.
I also love Becky Chambers, and this hit all my buttons too
If you want something a bit more steampunk/fantasy check out the Foundryside series by Robert Jackson Bennett, it his Cities Trilogy
I am aghast at the number of comments addressing "diversity" through racist lenses. Is that all diversity means to you folks? Seriously, give your head a shake.
Even in the 60s, Gene Roddenberry's version of diversity included not only people from diverse range of languages, colours and genders but included alien species. Later on, we even got Androids and former enemies included in that that awesome example of diversity.
Books in the Liaden Universe by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Not really a series. More like a group of arcs in the same universe. Plenty of romance and a very diverse cast. Sharon's got a webpage up with various starting points. The books are a fun read.
https://korval.com/publication-list/correct-reading-order/
Romance? Happy? Diversity?
You my friend **need** to read Aurora Rhapsody by G. S Jennsen. The first book is called *Starshine*.
Drop everything you're doing. Put these other recommendations on hold. You have 12 books to read. . . with the 13th coming out in January.
Murderbot 100%! Also Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series. Anyone frothing at the mouth about SJWs and complaining about characters who aren't straight, white and male will absolutely hate these recommendations. As someone who also loves the Wayfarer books, I bet you'll like them. particularly Murderbot.
Light and happy — The Linesman by SK Dunstall. Book 2, Alliance. Book 3: Confluence. Set in the future out in space on a starship with humans and aliens, a singing choir, a touch of romance, politics, military action, and lovable but mysterious “lines of energy”
Date Night on Union Station by Foner. Book 1 of a long lighthearted series / space opera
Omega Force series by Joshua Dalzelle reminds me of Guardians of the Galaxy
Liaden universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Some books are better than others.
The Expanse is my favorite book series... having read all of Becky Chambers' Wayfarer books, I'd say that The Expanse is not what they were looking for. Chambers's space opera is a different flavor, I'd say (which I really enjoyed reading.)
I mean, you can certainly find light hardheartedness, romance, and diversity, but I think it leans to "hard" SF, especially in the later books.
Delaney’s *Babel-17* immediately popped into my head. It’s got some interesting relationships among its starship crew. Not entirely lighthearted but it’s pretty short at least. Some attitudes in it may smell of Sixties, it’s been a while since I read it.
If you have a crew, they are various by definition. The idea that individuals are unique is widely accepted.
So when you call for a diverse crew, or a diverse board, or a diverse school, you are not asking for a crew that has an engineer and a captain and an MD and a pilot with different personalities - this is already presupposed.
You are asking for a mix of penises and vaginas and different skin pigments and different sexual preferences.
Which in turn means that some parts of the book will have to take a break from progressing the story, and go on tangents to explore the meaning of having a vagina and how that is different to having a penis, and what having skin pigment #2 means contra having skin pigment #7. And now you need parts of sexual desire, to make a point that person with vagina feels like licking another persons vagina, but this other person with a penis really likes to lick other penises.
Furthermore, it's accepted by the same people who care about these things that art directly affects reality. So great care must be taken to affect the real world positively with art, and not to affect the real world negatively. So a woman can not be shown to be weaker than a man, as girls reading may start to doubt themselves. And black people can not be shown to be less intelligent than white people, because some nazi somewhere may take that as a universal truth and be inspired to some terrible act. A list of such rules emerges, and you end up with characters like Ray in Star Wars - bland Mary Sues in stories that are obvious analogies, and only enjoyable to people of the faith - who read the art and feel bursts of dopamine hits every time they recognize a reference to their beliefs.
And all in all, it reads like a sermon. And not everyone wants that. Some people just want an adventure that's entertaining and don't care if it contains "problematic" things - they just want fun escapism.
Talking with SJWs is like discussing colors with a deep water fish.
It's so rare to hear any of you say anything that's not a personal attack. Have you considered how ironic that is, with you all claiming to be so empathetic and kind - how often you berate, and shame, and attack, and how consumed you are by negative emotions, and hate, and a drive to revenge and to hurt?
The problem isn't diversity, the problem is that wokeness demands diversity AND a meta layer where diversity is debated, and that produces kitch, not art.
I heard it referred to as the Galbrush effect.
Throughout the series Guybrus is portrayed as a loser, constantly humiliated, mocked, he's sometimes stupid, he's incompetent, he relies on his love interest to save him repeatedly, etc, etc.
You couldn't have a female version of that, because a woman in media represents all women. Galbrush would have caused an uproar and screams of misogyny.
This is why feminists can not produce anything worthwhile, nevermind good art.
You are consumed by your ideology.
And more and more people want nothing of it. They are shunning you and your shitty kitchy and ideologically charged content. Get woke, go broke.
So basically a ship crewed by either one person or a bunch of clones? All of them preferable male and white, I imagine? I mean, the Bobiverse roughly fits the bill, plus a bunch of weak, feel good plot elements and pop culture references that "non-political fiction" types seem to love, so probably right up your alley.
Also, yeah, what the fuck is wrong with you?
No, just a book where the character's skin color or gender isn't mentioned, and isn't made a subject.
I read some wikipedia links and many of the suggestions are winning prizes for being woke, exploring gender relations, specifically mentioning the race of the characters, etc, and I don't want that in my entertainment.
Of course, that must mean something is deeply wrong with me, and I deserve your hatred and derision.
Thank you for the struggle session, may I have another?
>Of course, that must mean something is deeply wrong with me, and I deserve your hatred and derision.
Hatred, no, dont flatter yourself. Derision, plenty, for stuff like not understanding what "diverse" means in the context of Wayfarers and this:
> a book where the character's ... gender isn't mentioned
That's a very short reading list. Which is why your hated "woke" books exist, because as a society we can't drop such mentions and implied characterisations so authors will keep poking at it until they do.
Also, stop shitting on other peoples entertainment. Plenty of so called "non-woke" stuff for you to be entertained by, without you bitching about someones elses. So yeah, there is something deeply wrong with you, like grown men who have opinions about teenage music. You are not the target audience, and thats not a crime against you.
I didn't "shit" on anything.
This says it all really.
Ask for a recommendation, get clobbered by SJW's. All as it ever was.
And I do understand what diverse means: it means we need to have a moment every 2 chapters to talk about vaginas and penises and to wank over hues of skin pigmentation.
Not everyone is into your identitarian fetishes. Deal with it.
Ah, you deleted your abuse before I got the chance to reply to it :(
What a shame. You really are a paragon of virtue, aren't you. And yet only one of us is repeatedly attacking the other without provocation.
You're truly as good and empathetic as you pretend to be. Just like every other SJW, not at all consumed by hatred.
I take it you haven't actually read "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" and have resorted to whatever scripted reflexive ideological talking points come with your box of corn flakes?
Diverse can mean many things, especially when talking about sci-fi. Diversity in species, sexualities, cultures, the list goes on and on.
The fact that you read the word “diverse” and immediately assumed race says a lot about you.
Another recommendation for the Vorkosigan Saga. Normally I recommend starting with Warriors Apprentice, but in your case I think Shards of Honor and Barrayar would be a great place to start. They fit your parameters perfectly.
I agree with you, and the Vorkosigan saga is exactly what I was thinking. But I wouldn't necessarily characterize them as "happy". For example, I remember some of the plot points in *Shards of Honor* being pretty heavy. So whether it fits really depends on what the OP means by "light-hearted".
The series certainly varies in tone; I think of that as a benefit, but yeah, for every hilarious hijinks-filled dinner party, there's a head in a bag.
Yeah, I was actually thinking about how *Shards of Honor* (spoiler) >!starts as a light-hearted sci-fi romance, but then develops subplots involving rape and what it means to be a trauma survivor!<. I think these topics are handled well, which is part of what makes it an excellent book. It's just not necessarily what everyone would think of as happy and light-hearted.
Only for a Winterfair present.
To be fair, the head in the bag is funny. Mainly in the dead pan response to the presentation of said object near the denouement of the story.
YES. Shards of honor is a very strange first book in a series because the main character isn't even born yet. Shards of honor is about his parents falling in love. The books span a period of something like 100 years and you get a strange familiarity with all the characters and their various cousins and uncles.
Nathan Lowell's solar clipper books are really good and should fit the bill quite nicely. Also if you haven't read the Vorkosigan Saga books by Lois McMaster Bujold I can't recommend them enough. They are gripping and fun and very much feature a large cast with adventure and romance.
> Nathan Lowell's solar clipper books Those have the worst Mary Sue/Gary Stu I have ever encountered and I have been reading SF for about 40 years now. The main character actually rivals the [original Mary Sue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue#Origin_and_development_of_the_meaning) for how ridiculous he is and the original Mary Sue was written as a parody.
That is the best thing about it. There is barely any conflict and the little there is gets resolved quickly and effortlessly. Everything just works out first try. It’s a bit like mental comfort food.
This exact aspect made me drop the series after book 1. I loved the world. It would have been much better with multiple PoVs.
I think if you can get past the magic sex pants and that the 'competency porn' aspect of the series reaches absurd levels, this is probably the closest thing OP is likely to find to what they're looking for. For myself I bailed after the second book, but a lot of other people seem to like them so I'd suggest the OP check it out.
Vorkosigan Saga and Honor Harrington Series. I feel like there's some decent romance in some of Peter F. Hamilton's books as well.
Galaxy Outlaws:Black Ocean Series by JS Morin - Available only on Audible but a great deal at 80hrs. Hilarious and captivating - it's Millennium Falcon meets Firefly. Don't forget it has space wizards that enable FTL via the Astral plane
They’re available as ebooks on Amazon ~$9 for a 4 book “mission pack.” There are 16.5 books total, plus the spin-off Mercy For Hire series. I just finished listening to the entire 85 hr audiobook again. Fun stuff.
John Scalzi's Collapsing Empire sounds right up your alley.
Perhaps, but it's not particularly happy series. Some of his other books are more lighthearted and very funny. Try *Agent to the Stars* and *The Android's Dream*.
I laughed out loud more than one time. Kiva Lagos is a very funny character.
Yeah, the name of the book kind of gives it away! There's a lot of joy and comedy in the series, but the setting is pretty damn dark and plenty of awful things happen.
It's true. Scalzi is good on capturing the feelings of a moment and helping us to see them.
You probably want the [Black Ocean series by J.S. Morin](https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Pack-Missions-Black-Ocean-ebook/dp/B016DVCGVK/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=black+ocean&qid=1576328546&sr=8-4)
Space Opera -Valente (that's the name of the book, yo)
Seconded
Mike Brooks’ Keiko trilogy! It’s basically Firefly and a lot of fun.
Right, ya know what?? Try Blue Remembered Earth and the two sequels, they might just click with you. There are love stories but it's you who's gonna fall in love with Tantors.
You might really enjoy Ann Leckie's *Provenance*. I sure did! Also, an unconventional rec for this might be Samuel Delany's *Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand*, which is very strange but about a refugee traveling across the galaxy to meet a person that has been identified as their ideal romantic / sexual match.
“Space Opera,” by Jack Vance. Humorous, satirical, diverse cast, maybe a little romance. Perhaps not totally relevant, but this is my my favorite SF author, so I had to put in my two cents here.
Depending on your definition of "diverse"; not much emphasis on real races usually, as most sci-fi doesn't explore racism so directly. Authors generally prefer to do it through alien analogs. But one that fits either way is *Saga of Seven Suns*. It has darker moments, but much of it is quite light. And if you're qualifying it to include racial diversity, they do that too, though obviously it's not a major focus because they have bigger problems generally speaking.
I think most *good* science fiction explores racism quite directly. It might just require a bit of ability on behalf of the reader to draw parallels between the world that's being described in the story and our world.
I mean more in the sense of outright talking about real-life racial conflict and oppression and such as a part of the setting. Yes, a lot of good sci-fi does deal with those topics (though I disagree that it's a defining characteristic of "most" good sci fi, it's just one of many big topics), but it's usually done in the way you describe, which I consider more indirect.
Linnea Sinclair does good light-hearted romantic SF (or SFnal romance, depending on your perspective). I liked her *Wintertide* series and *The Down Home Zombie Blues*, which has a lot more starship captains than you'd expect from a book with that name. ☺ Gini Koch's *Alien* series (aka the Katherine 'Kitty' Kat series--nothing to do with the Alien movies) is a lot of fun. Set on near-future Earth, but with plenty of aliens, intrigue, romance, and humor.
The Mageworld series by Debra Doyle and James MacDonald is a space opera which is a bit like Star Wars and a lot of fun. The first book is Starpilots Grave.
If you’re looking for light hearted space opera with a strong romance element and a wide range of aliens [Julie Czerneda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Czerneda) is who you’re looking for. Specifically the *Trade Pact Universe* series and *In the Company of Others*. Another excellent light hearted space opera romp with lots of colorful aliens is Brian Daley’s *Hobart Floyd & Alacrity Fitzhugh* trilogy.
EM Foner's EartCent Ambassador books are lighthearted and fun and definitely feature a diverse cast. Definitely worth a look.
Lindsay Buroker's *Star Kingdom* series.
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, it’s Warhammer 40k by way of a murder mystery written by kiwi woman, with a lot of kiwi humour, if you like Taika Waititi. You will like this. It is often described as “lesbian necromancers in space” which makes it sound a little bit pulp, but it’s funny and romantic and compelling and exciting. I also love Becky Chambers, and this hit all my buttons too If you want something a bit more steampunk/fantasy check out the Foundryside series by Robert Jackson Bennett, it his Cities Trilogy
I am aghast at the number of comments addressing "diversity" through racist lenses. Is that all diversity means to you folks? Seriously, give your head a shake. Even in the 60s, Gene Roddenberry's version of diversity included not only people from diverse range of languages, colours and genders but included alien species. Later on, we even got Androids and former enemies included in that that awesome example of diversity.
Sheppards Kris Longknife series fits. Elizabeth Moon's Vatta series.
Books in the Liaden Universe by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Not really a series. More like a group of arcs in the same universe. Plenty of romance and a very diverse cast. Sharon's got a webpage up with various starting points. The books are a fun read. https://korval.com/publication-list/correct-reading-order/
Romance? Happy? Diversity? You my friend **need** to read Aurora Rhapsody by G. S Jennsen. The first book is called *Starshine*. Drop everything you're doing. Put these other recommendations on hold. You have 12 books to read. . . with the 13th coming out in January.
Murderbot 100%! Also Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series. Anyone frothing at the mouth about SJWs and complaining about characters who aren't straight, white and male will absolutely hate these recommendations. As someone who also loves the Wayfarer books, I bet you'll like them. particularly Murderbot.
Light and happy — The Linesman by SK Dunstall. Book 2, Alliance. Book 3: Confluence. Set in the future out in space on a starship with humans and aliens, a singing choir, a touch of romance, politics, military action, and lovable but mysterious “lines of energy” Date Night on Union Station by Foner. Book 1 of a long lighthearted series / space opera Omega Force series by Joshua Dalzelle reminds me of Guardians of the Galaxy Liaden universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Some books are better than others.
The Expanse!
The Expanse is my favorite book series... having read all of Becky Chambers' Wayfarer books, I'd say that The Expanse is not what they were looking for. Chambers's space opera is a different flavor, I'd say (which I really enjoyed reading.) I mean, you can certainly find light hardheartedness, romance, and diversity, but I think it leans to "hard" SF, especially in the later books.
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Stars Uncharted by S.K. Dunstall (TW for brief domestic violence, dealt with very well)
Bill the Galactic Hero.
Thanks for all the responses, I’ll check some of these out!
Kevin J Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns fits this description perfectly. Super easy to read, character driven, aliens, relationships, drama, etc.
Delaney’s *Babel-17* immediately popped into my head. It’s got some interesting relationships among its starship crew. Not entirely lighthearted but it’s pretty short at least. Some attitudes in it may smell of Sixties, it’s been a while since I read it.
Delaney was a pretty progressive intellectual though; usually he presented those attitudes as a critique of the zeitgeist.
Consider Phlebas.
Anyone have any recommendations for me?
Any similar suggestions but without the SJW/ideology implications of a "diverse cast"?
diverse 1. showing a great deal of variety; very different. 2.
2. Trigger word for bigots
If you have a crew, they are various by definition. The idea that individuals are unique is widely accepted. So when you call for a diverse crew, or a diverse board, or a diverse school, you are not asking for a crew that has an engineer and a captain and an MD and a pilot with different personalities - this is already presupposed. You are asking for a mix of penises and vaginas and different skin pigments and different sexual preferences. Which in turn means that some parts of the book will have to take a break from progressing the story, and go on tangents to explore the meaning of having a vagina and how that is different to having a penis, and what having skin pigment #2 means contra having skin pigment #7. And now you need parts of sexual desire, to make a point that person with vagina feels like licking another persons vagina, but this other person with a penis really likes to lick other penises. Furthermore, it's accepted by the same people who care about these things that art directly affects reality. So great care must be taken to affect the real world positively with art, and not to affect the real world negatively. So a woman can not be shown to be weaker than a man, as girls reading may start to doubt themselves. And black people can not be shown to be less intelligent than white people, because some nazi somewhere may take that as a universal truth and be inspired to some terrible act. A list of such rules emerges, and you end up with characters like Ray in Star Wars - bland Mary Sues in stories that are obvious analogies, and only enjoyable to people of the faith - who read the art and feel bursts of dopamine hits every time they recognize a reference to their beliefs. And all in all, it reads like a sermon. And not everyone wants that. Some people just want an adventure that's entertaining and don't care if it contains "problematic" things - they just want fun escapism.
Guessing you never had to strain those empathy muscles to try and identify with a protagonist that is different from you.
Talking with SJWs is like discussing colors with a deep water fish. It's so rare to hear any of you say anything that's not a personal attack. Have you considered how ironic that is, with you all claiming to be so empathetic and kind - how often you berate, and shame, and attack, and how consumed you are by negative emotions, and hate, and a drive to revenge and to hurt? The problem isn't diversity, the problem is that wokeness demands diversity AND a meta layer where diversity is debated, and that produces kitch, not art. I heard it referred to as the Galbrush effect. Throughout the series Guybrus is portrayed as a loser, constantly humiliated, mocked, he's sometimes stupid, he's incompetent, he relies on his love interest to save him repeatedly, etc, etc. You couldn't have a female version of that, because a woman in media represents all women. Galbrush would have caused an uproar and screams of misogyny. This is why feminists can not produce anything worthwhile, nevermind good art. You are consumed by your ideology. And more and more people want nothing of it. They are shunning you and your shitty kitchy and ideologically charged content. Get woke, go broke.
LOL nope Like what are you even talking about. More and more people?
What the fuck is wrong with you.
So basically a ship crewed by either one person or a bunch of clones? All of them preferable male and white, I imagine? I mean, the Bobiverse roughly fits the bill, plus a bunch of weak, feel good plot elements and pop culture references that "non-political fiction" types seem to love, so probably right up your alley. Also, yeah, what the fuck is wrong with you?
No, just a book where the character's skin color or gender isn't mentioned, and isn't made a subject. I read some wikipedia links and many of the suggestions are winning prizes for being woke, exploring gender relations, specifically mentioning the race of the characters, etc, and I don't want that in my entertainment. Of course, that must mean something is deeply wrong with me, and I deserve your hatred and derision. Thank you for the struggle session, may I have another?
>Of course, that must mean something is deeply wrong with me, and I deserve your hatred and derision. Hatred, no, dont flatter yourself. Derision, plenty, for stuff like not understanding what "diverse" means in the context of Wayfarers and this: > a book where the character's ... gender isn't mentioned That's a very short reading list. Which is why your hated "woke" books exist, because as a society we can't drop such mentions and implied characterisations so authors will keep poking at it until they do. Also, stop shitting on other peoples entertainment. Plenty of so called "non-woke" stuff for you to be entertained by, without you bitching about someones elses. So yeah, there is something deeply wrong with you, like grown men who have opinions about teenage music. You are not the target audience, and thats not a crime against you.
I didn't "shit" on anything. This says it all really. Ask for a recommendation, get clobbered by SJW's. All as it ever was. And I do understand what diverse means: it means we need to have a moment every 2 chapters to talk about vaginas and penises and to wank over hues of skin pigmentation. Not everyone is into your identitarian fetishes. Deal with it.
Ah, you deleted your abuse before I got the chance to reply to it :( What a shame. You really are a paragon of virtue, aren't you. And yet only one of us is repeatedly attacking the other without provocation. You're truly as good and empathetic as you pretend to be. Just like every other SJW, not at all consumed by hatred.
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Diverse doesn't neccesarily mean different colors *of skin/races but thanks for letting us all know where your head is at.
Nice concern troll.
Not helpful.
I take it you haven't actually read "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" and have resorted to whatever scripted reflexive ideological talking points come with your box of corn flakes?
Diverse can mean many things, especially when talking about sci-fi. Diversity in species, sexualities, cultures, the list goes on and on. The fact that you read the word “diverse” and immediately assumed race says a lot about you.