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Blindsight.

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anyone else really enjoying reading in the summer weather?

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Any books which portray Aliens as alien as Blindsight?

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Because most writers are dumb and can't write well. Alternatively, most readers are dumb and see what they expect in fictions not designed that way. Also some authors are just really political, or mad (see Heinlein)

The only type of science fiction than can really isolate itself fully from politics is the really original or weird stuff. Something like Blindsight can be read ten times and drip no less political stance than a biochemistry textbook.

I think politics doesn't need to be omitted from scifi though. The last two Three Body Trilogy books, Dark Forest and Death's End, have an underlying theme of western democracy VS modern Chinese autocracy politics, especially in the context of great hardships, namely world threats and space travel. However, none of the books really waste time having characters argue over it, instead leaving a lot of the thinking up to the reader. Which is just how it should be, enough politics to provoke a discussion, but not so much it begins to detracts from the scifi.