Jeremy lassen ([info]jlassen) wrote,
@ 2008-04-28 15:16:00
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I just want to say....
GIANT PSYCHIC WATERBOARDING CRABS!!

Did I mention I love Neal Asher, and his Polity Fiction!

I just realized that one of the core metaphors in his polity-verse is that the Prador are actually stand-ins for Neocons! Dick Cheney is actually a giant flesh eating crab!

I'm just his publisher, so I could be very wrong in this interpretation. But I urge you to read Prador Moon, and The Skinner*, and come to your own conclusions.


*The Skinner is actually published by somone else, but it deals directly with The Prador, and, along side of Prador Moon, provides the basis for my Prador/Neocon interpretation.


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[info]nballingrud
2008-04-29 01:52 am UTC (link)
I've always assumed Asher's politics were pretty conservative; but I base that almost entirely on his stance on global warming, so it's that likely I'm not being fair.

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[info]jlassen
2008-04-29 04:09 am UTC (link)
He made a comment on the Night Shade Message boards to the effect that he was tired of seeing young kids cheerfully going off to die/making the best of coming home with stumps, etc.

British conservative doesn't necessarily = Straussian Neo-conservative.

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[info]nballingrud
2008-04-29 12:13 pm UTC (link)
Fair enough.

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