I just learned he is very racist, does Hyperion have his political views in it? I can read Lovecraft just fine, since it is it a product of its time. This on the other hand is recent. I also heard it has a Palestinian character how are they portrayed?

https://web.archive.org/web/20060424105133/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, it was a recent TIL for me too.

I don't think it comes across like that in Hyperion, if anything it's like diversity or something. Then again, I don't read books as if I'm the lead character, my morals don't roleplay, it's just a character with their own faults etc.

What I've noticed (more so in other his books) is how often (but not always) poorly women are treated. But eg in Drood that is just plainly realistic af (Victorian England). And tbf, racism in space also sounds realistic af. Also religious cults, mysticism, etc.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

From what I heard his later books are the issue like flashback:

!a poet who fled Israel after 6 million Jews were murdered by the Muslim "Global Caliphate" — seem to have been created for the sole purpose of explaining why the left wing has destroyed America. !<

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/28/137621172/one-rant-too-many-politics-mar-simmons-dystopia

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, this is exactly why I added the thing about me not speaking for all his books.
(This was also a recent TIL of mine. It also sounds like a poorly thought out plot tbh, it just seems that it will be riddled with logical plot holes, which I really hate bcs lazy writing. Or motivated otherwise.)

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 4 days ago

I think it feels alive AND like an Opera. So good.