Comment by syndacks
3 days ago
A lot of people here like this guys writing.
For a longer and more biting critique of SF one should read
Private Citizens (2016) by Tony Tulathimutte
“ Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire.”
I picked up Rejection, he has a keen sense of observation and understanding of people. Still, I found the variations-on-a-theme stories to be a downer, or at least repetitive. By the 3rd story I was hoping for another direction.