How is it that authors get reclassified as “harmful, as happened to Wright and Stross”? Do you mean that later works become less helpful? How would earlier works go bad?
What I mean: the author’s name on the cover can’t be used anymore as an indicator of the book’s harmfulness / helpfulness.
An extreme example is the story of a certain American writer. He wrote some of the most beautiful transhumanist science fiction ever. But when he crashed his car and almost died.
He came back wrong. He is now a religious nutjob who writes essays on how transhumans are soul-less children of Satan. And in his new fiction books, transhumanists are stock villains opposed by glorious Christian heroes.
How is it that authors get reclassified as “harmful, as happened to Wright and Stross”? Do you mean that later works become less helpful? How would earlier works go bad?
What I mean: the author’s name on the cover can’t be used anymore as an indicator of the book’s harmfulness / helpfulness.
An extreme example is the story of a certain American writer. He wrote some of the most beautiful transhumanist science fiction ever. But when he crashed his car and almost died.
He came back wrong. He is now a religious nutjob who writes essays on how transhumans are soul-less children of Satan. And in his new fiction books, transhumanists are stock villains opposed by glorious Christian heroes.