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Asher can be an enjoyable author. The Polity stuff is generally exciting and not too bogged down in the author's politics. The settings are very diverse and if the characters are cardboard, it's not much worse than the genre as a whole. Then there's the Owner trilogy he wrote, which is unbelievable tripe. I've ranted about it before and won't belabor the post, but it's almost impossible to see it as the same author. Maybe he got a brain tumor?
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General Battuta posted:The problem I have with ninety percent of mil SF even in the explosion porn category is the lack of interesting adversaries. For a bunch of writers who fetishize Rommel and Yamamoto and all those "honorable" foes, they don't seem to get that a hero is only as credible as their antagonist. This is why I can't handle the Dread Empire Falls books. The entire premise of the series is that the protagonists are the only thinking people in the universe. Way to build up the tension, Walter!
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