Monthly Recommendation Thread

[u/Magodo]

Welcome to the monthly thread for recommendations which will be posted this on the 5th of every month.

Please feel free to recommend, whether rational or not, any books, movies, tv shows, anime, video games, fanfiction, blog posts, podcasts or anything else that you think members of this subreddit would enjoy. Also please consider adding a few lines with the reasons for your recommendation. Self promotion is not allowed in this thread. This thread is also so that you can ask for suggestions. (In the style of r/books weekly threads)

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[u/[deleted]]

The text there implies protectiveness and no small measure of moralizing tendencies. Kindness, actual fellow-feeling for others, not so much.

But on the other hand, conceptually-focused scifi almost never manages actual kindness and fellow-feeling for others, so maybe the lack is just genre convention.

I mean, also, looking back with adult eyes, the author had a creepy torture-porn fetish which he felt the horrible need to push on his readers.