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joever :
"I make non-political art, I don't have any social commentary" = "I severely lack self reflection and I am unable to understand how the social and material conditions surrounding me make their way into my art"
2026-04-14 01:27:02
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Ethan :
Andy Weir gives Reddit mod vibes
2026-04-13 21:21:46
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🧡🤍🩷VonnieVania🩵🤍🩷 :
They nuked the antarctic in your book, Andy! They turned the Sahara into a giant solar farm!
2026-04-14 12:17:17
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Sav Miller :
The comment about social commentary is so mind boggling to me because in my mind the entire purpose of science fiction genre is social commentary. It’s a speculative genre that comments on how the systems and structures of the present may have consequences on the future.
2026-04-14 02:05:36
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Jade :
it is impossible to produce apolitical art. all art is social commentary.
2026-04-14 16:20:53
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Ferbstorm :
i love hail mary, but i dont understand how anyone can write something about a potential future and thonk for a second that their work is entirely apolitical. although, a friend made a good point that its actually not a bad thing to regard "climate change is real and needs to be dealt with" as apolitical. cause if its a fact accepted by all parties, then its not a political point of contention. i would like to live in a world where we could genuinely consider climate change as apolitical
2026-04-14 05:14:31
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Heron_Overview :
yes. Artemis is god awful. it was definitely a contract fulfillment book.
2026-04-13 19:55:59
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Ashley | booksaremythirdplace :
OMG thank you!!! I LOVED the Martian, so I read this one, and I HATED it.
2026-04-13 21:14:14
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📚 Alistair 📚 :
This book was so boring that I forgot I'd already read it and ended up reading it again. Definitely not his strongest work 😂.
2026-04-13 20:44:27
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nyve :
I am beyond tired of “politic bad” people not understanding that politics track 1:1 with morality. As an author, if your character makes a moral decision, that’s inherently political. It shows the characters worldview.
2026-04-15 12:38:59
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Anna 🧠 📚 :
Stick to isolated men in space lol
2026-04-13 22:28:26
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MackenziesMassiveTBR :
You know things are serious when you break out the iPad notes
2026-04-13 19:46:02
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davidPT :
Loved The Martian.. LOVED Project Hail Mary… Artemis was a “disappointment” to say the least
2026-04-15 14:47:29
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Gil :
He really is a bad writer - the only intrigue in his books is the accurate science. I feel like he lacks the ability to understand other people's emotions. In PHM he has to force the main character to feel sad that his crew died and he does this by saying, "I'm sad my crew died because they were my crew." He's emotionless.
2026-04-14 17:18:27
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August :
Floozy? Was this book set in 1952?
2026-04-14 07:54:24
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Marie 🇨🇦 :
Oh! I loved The Martian and Project Hail Mary and almost buy it last week!!!
2026-04-13 22:34:08
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Gwen Rathbone :
As someone who LOVES the Martian and project Hail Mary, Artemis is a SLOG to get through
2026-04-14 11:00:46
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YakiSloth :
him making that comment makes me question whether he actually wrote Project Hail Mary. Are we sure he didn't have a ghost writer create it? (and after watching this video, i am even more convinced that maybe he didn't write it)
2026-05-18 17:39:05
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zooblegoobie46 :
I LOVED PROJECT HAIL MARY. and Artemis was SO SO SO SO bad. Couldn't believe how bad it was honestly.. worst book I've read in a while..
2026-04-14 06:49:50
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Jonathan :
There is the possibility that he thinks he is the enlightened apolitical centrist who is immune to ideology, but there are also people who think that politics is just “a thing I don’t like” or “a thing that’s controversial to me.” Both are wrong but for different reasons.
2026-04-14 18:43:49
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Write Faster, Theo :
Respectfully, Mr Weir, it's all political. In this essay I will--
2026-04-15 04:40:40
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memarselo :
Art inherently cannot be apolitical.
2026-04-16 10:47:24
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coleoid :
counterpoint: the biggest gap in his social commentary vis a vis climate change plots is that he basically wrote the whole world reluctantly cooperating to take on the threat, and there was no dissident reactionary political movement calling the astrophage a fraud and talking about how the sun goes on regular cycles anyway. While nothing in the world is truly apolitical, that was shockingly abstinent from a very contemporary political phenomenon, and it's one of the weak parts of the background.
2026-04-14 09:58:32
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spiralsuitcase :
I am 75% through Project Hail Mary and while I am going to finish it, I am also never going to read anything by him ever again.
2026-04-14 04:33:55
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Marianne Faithless :
I wanna know how hard you have to work to make a-political scifi.
2026-04-14 10:17:11
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