5. Too bad VV is an extreme libertarian. His novels reek of it. They are good; but the POV...
takes away from the scifi.
Like in "A Fire Upon the Deep", where he goes on at great length about some computer-based virus that zombifies people. And these zombie people spout platitudes that sound like liberal slogans when they are really evil incarnate.
Then, in "Beyond Realtime" its all about some libertarian hackers overcoming the evil plot of some government bureaucrats run amock.
I refuse to read the stuff anymore, even though the scifi is rock solid. The societies he envisions are ugly crap.
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