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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 1689126" data-attributes="member: 1297">While I disagree about the first 200 pages, I do agree about the handlingers. But the scar had less of that in there, so I suspect as his writing matures the needless wierdness will get less and less.On the politics thing, basically he's a very political person. I'd imagine that he would be unable to write these books without his politics.Though to be honest, as a very political person with views not dissimilar to Meiville's, I don't find that he IS that political. But I guess that's just me. Ken MacLeod is a much more political writer, where as Iain M Banks, who is a very political person, is very rarely described as a political writer of fiction. But I have no doubt what Bank's politics are upon reading his work. Meiville's books remind me of Banks's in terms of their political-ness. Smilarly with Ursela LeGuin, with the notable exception of two books and a short story, she doesn't have much overt politics in her writing. But she is also a very political person whose politics informs her work. Moorcock as well.This is probably a dangerous line of discussion tho. I'm pretty sure I'm sailing as close to the wind as I can without being specific and breaking the rules.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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