I’m reading dark skies, which is about how space is going to be used for military purposes, corporate expansion, consolidating power.
Are there any fiction books that deal with similar things, things that could happen in the next 50 years. I think Arthur C Clarke sometimes touches on this in things like 2001, when he talks about cold war politics continuing with orbiting nuclear weapons.
by Tricky_Witness_1717
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have you ever seen the movie pluto?
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martin was very good. Not the next 50 years, but space politics in thousands of years from now that focuses on the characters and their diplomacy while using the sci-fi as a vehicle to tell the story.
_Neptune’s Brood_ by Charles Stross deals with this, especially the financial aspects. You don’t need to read _Saturn’s Children_ first, but it’s the same universe.
‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson is a book I recommend for its fast-paced action and satirical take on the information age. In a future America fragmented into corporate city-states, the story of Hiro Protagonist unfolds as a gripping tale of language as a virus and the commodification of the mind.
The Expanse series by James SA Corey
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is Japan’s most famous Space Opera and is highly political.
No magic, just tactics and political manoeuvring.
Yang Wen Li is one of the greatest character in fiction
And book covers are magnificent.