(paraphrased from a lawyer friend of mine)
Another Awful Warning is Marion Zimmer Bradley the scifi/fantasy writer. She could tell a good story if she would cut out all the feminist/lesbian/radical garbage, but seems like every 50 pages or so it's "Drop the story, let's spend 25 pages expounding my brilliant philosophy." Ugh. Only read some of her stuff because a friend was a big fan. Didn't help.
Sherri Tepper preaches too much too, but she works it into the story better (and she writes better dialogue than Bradley).
Indeed.
Atlas Shrugged would have been much better if Ayn Rand had trimmed down the preaching.
The story and the dystopian situations in the book conveyed the idea perfectly without it!
My favorite scene is near the very beginning, when the train won’t move because the switch on a red light has frozen in the “ON” position. Although there is nothing wrong with either the train or the track, everything stops because NOBODY will take responsibility or think “Outside the Box” to get things done. It is SO typical of today’s world!
JMO, of course! ;-)