Comment by presidentender
1 day ago
One of my favorite science fiction novels deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain
1 day ago
One of my favorite science fiction novels deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain
Read the novella and skip the novel.
What a fascinating book series that I've never heard of. It looks like it sort of takes a middle ground between Le Guin and Rand?
It doesn't preach so much as it explores. The author strikes me as being more economically literate than Rand or LeGuin, but not as good a writer as the latter.
The real and staggering excellence of the series is the speculation - it's not such hard SF that it explains the mechanisms by which everything happens, and there are real characters who do more than stand as cardboard observers to technology, but it's crunchier than most.