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It might age like fine wine once the current political situation passes. The self insert part is also very uncharitable.

Uncharitable, yes, but bluntly, he’s got form. Look at Dodge in Reamde.

And I dunno about age improving it. Niven and Pournelle’s politics just looks kind of ridiculous now, even if you don’t know exactly who they had a bee in their bonnet about.

> and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't think that's horribly unrealistic, is it? He's pretty much a scientist the media picked to represent the topic, like Dr. Fauci in real life. They could have picked a coronavirologist, but they didn't.

I liked the part where one of the tech CEOs ate a bit of radioactive nickel or whatever and diarrhead to death.