A Deepness in the Sky was the book where Vinge's mustache-twirling villains became ridiculous to me, and where they became much more noticeable in his earlier work. The return of Morgoth in A Fire in the Deep is still okay, but that's Tolkien with Usenet, can't really screw that up too much.
I tried with two of those, didn't like any of it. It felt reactionary to me, but people told me his personal politics were something else.
Lately I've wondered if I read his description of the multiple-bodies kind of canine people wrong -- almost wondered about it enough to go back and re-read it.
Hm. I don't know what you've been told, but Vinge has used the political and economic analyses of David D. Friedman for forty years in his fiction; they're close friends.
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Lately I've wondered if I read his description of the multiple-bodies kind of canine people wrong -- almost wondered about it enough to go back and re-read it.
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I feel much better about my powers of perception and critical reading now.