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15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“I would say Dune with Frank Herbert because of thinking of the broad scale of the interplay of politics and religion in the evolution of society, because science fiction is, by making these artificial future societies, a lens onto our own.”
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- 15 Jan 2020
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…Oh, it’s definitely going to be interesting. I would say Dune with Frank Herbert because of thinking of the broad scale of the interplay of politics and religion in the evolution of society, because science fiction is, by making these artificial future societies, a lens onto our own. I would say Isaac Asimov’s question around psychohistory in the Foundation series. And then things where you start thinking about Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and also Stranger in a Strange Land. Those were probably the early ones. And then Ender’s Game was probably towards the end of the arc of my childhood science fiction. And that reflects the empathy emphasis?…
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