I was browsing stuff here and trying (operative word) to author a book just for my own fun started to think about politics and such that might run through the narrative. Well, if it's there at all. Most Sci-Fi books I read are by US authors, some UK. Not sure if other foreign authors get their books translated. Dissappointingly I find there's always bias towards the authors' country of origin. Many books on first contact and lone hero stuff (which I'm not overly fond of but I guess it's difficult to avoid) reflect that leaving out any world (reaction) context. My novel (near future!) although it has a sort of Hero (rather benign one) tries to cover world reaction to an Arrival (e.g. I don't have NASA but JSA combining Europe, India and friendlies with China, Africa and SA as antagonists of sorts with a bunch of neutrals of course). I also find many stories try to bring in advanced ideas but fall short of bringing the context the people involved live in up to scratch (e.g. current day tech obviously should be buried in the past). In fact I often don't get through the story. Finding it difficult to tie these together but perhaps the scope is too wide.
Wandering about a bit, sorry, but maybe there's a debate in there somewhere and feedback welcome. Thanks.
Wandering about a bit, sorry, but maybe there's a debate in there somewhere and feedback welcome. Thanks.