Tau Zero

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Ultimately, I can handle bad science or outdated sex stuff or weak characterization - especially in older SF. The main problem I had with this book was "Carl Reymont, a macho alpha male who beats people into line for their own good", as a reviewer on Goodreads wrote. It is the entire ideological setup of the novel that bothered me most. Anderson writes about a character that knows best, and assumes the 50 scientists that people the ship could not function as a healthy group without a Machiavellian hero/leader/brute. It's the kind of thinking that results in justifying violent dictatorship via elitist conceptions about the masses. Paternalistic bullshit. Yuck.

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