I was so disappointed when the Sword of Truth series turned out to be right wing propaganda. His take on communism was so dumb and obviously dishonest that even younger me would pause reading to roll my eyes. Until I got to the end of one book that was just Richard giving a pages long lecture, at which point I just skimmed to find out how the story ended and close out that story in my mind.
Actually, thinking back on the series now has me realizing it wasn’t just capitalist propaganda, it was outright fascist. Richard was an absolute dictator (after deposing the previous despot) that everyone had to swear their lives to otherwise the evil bad guy would invade their dreams. I had been casually trying to sell the books I have but maybe I should seal them away instead.
Though Piers Anthony is one I read when I was even younger. I hope you’re including him more for the fetish part than the politics, or that he at least wasn’t thinking similar to Goodkind. All I can remember from those books were puns, him giving credit for where he got the ideas for various puns, and one of them being nymphs are nymphomaniacs.
That reminds me, I just started The Completionist Chronicles by Dakota Krout and it started off with some really weird Elon Musk fanfic… Fortunately I haven’t seen anymore but damn I was nearly nauseous.
That way-off-in-left field plot point from the “creative” player’s backstory that the GM feels like they have to wedge in somewhere, so they kindof just stick it somewhere.
Plus a few points if you cram all that into young adult fiction so that the kids get their first exposure to that stuff without their parents knowing. Looking at you Heinlein.
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