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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I do the same thing. And I was able to that with every other work of his. Mostly because I try to remain blissfully unaware of authors' personal beliefs. But with Flashback... Dan Simmons beat me over the head with personal beliefs that were only thinly disguised as a story. That's the first time he's ever done that to me. As long as he never does that to me again, I'll continue to buy and enjoy his work and write this one off as an aberration.
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Once authors start doing that, they seem to find it hard to stop. John Ringo is the classic example: he used to write good military SF; now he writes extreme right-wing political diatribes in the guise of fiction.