Stalin in Space

When people ask me why I critique science fiction, this is why.

So. Let's recap.

The box office smash of the year is a scifi movie with "too much sand" and a warning against religious wars, released IN THE MIDDLE of a bitter religious war.

Netflix are streaming Liu Cixin's not very well disguised argument for authoritarian government as the only hope of survival in a "Dark Forest" reality, as another war is being foug…