Discussion
For this road trip, my wife has elected that we'll be listening to the audiobook of Dungeon Crawler Carl.
This is my first exposure to the franchise, and I am tennatively enjoying it. I am damn suspicious of it though. We have not ventured fully into Ender's Game "sometimes genocide is the only option" territory, but the book is flirting with some dangerous ideas.
The whole thing is clearly a critique of modern capitalism, but there is this underlying libertarian bent to it that I expect will get worse, and a lot of contrived excuses for the "correct" course of action to be hurting innocent people.
This could be read as a pretty leftist take on capitalist exploitation, but it is a hop and a skip from rugged individualism. (which the book has, so far, explicitly acted against.)
I'm curious about how it will continue to evolve.
@ajroach42 Carl is kinda the anti-Ender. Well, similar body counts.