A unique adventure in literature; a startling philosophical investigation cloaked in sci-fi; a straightforward, unsurprising story that will somehow sneakily have you pondering deep questions years later… I guess what I appreciate most about Butler and this trilogy is just how different it all is, and how it never tries to be like anything else.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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