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I really loved this book. It felt like the interest and passion in biology that Mikhail Bakunin exhibited in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution but told ask a sci-fi epic@!

analyzing the conditions and contradictions of a human inmate labour camp upon an exoplanet with alien life Tchaikovsky looks at what makes us human, what mutualism and organization mean, and the struggles against domination.

I would liken this to The Dispossessed of Tchaikovsky's catalog and want you all to read it then get coffee with me and talk about the ups and downs.

Alien Biological Anarchy, let's go!

just finished this book today. pretty decent and the take was a bit more nuance than i was expecting. Generally I think of this author is the luxury space communism camp, and very much like: communism creates innovation, innovation frees us from work, we all get Rolexes. presented in the marxist does economics way, there is arguments presented from the right and left side of a full-automation perspective (more technology, machines, robots, AI than just AI). anti-tech arguments aren't really explored but he tries to poke holes in the idea that work will be eliminated or made obsolete and this will lead to downtime or communism. His larger argument is that surplus labour and declining employment and automation/production are not linked as we are often presented by economics and politicians and that capitalism is making people obsolete, not technology specifically.

not trying to make the arguments here just present them. read the book if you are curious, it's pretty short at around 100 pgs.

enjoyed reading this, it's short, it has some annihilation vibes to begin with but the story diverged enough from that line in the send half that it wasn't just a remake of a popular book.

is this an easy summer read. most definitely

so far this book has almost to much overlap with annihilation...

i am literally distracted by the annihilation plot line and it's differences reading this.

Generally was really enjoying the triology of the red rising, nothing fantastic, but an interesting space opera that kept my attention and got better book by book. but this 4th one i just struggled to kind of get into until the end.

in order of my liking them: 3rd book 2nd book 1st book 4th book

not gonna continue with the series and supporting novellas anymore i think