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| Socio-political sci-fi? Ken McLeod. His first, The Star Fraction, has plenty of big guns and shiny metal action too. His later novels (equally ace) tend to deal with clashes of ideology- first contact between an anarcho-syndicalist society and anarcho-capitalism, that kind of thing. (Much of the sewcond volume of the Engines Of Light trilogy deals with arguments over whether it's better to intervene to cause a civil war on a planet whose levels of technology are rapidly rising, on the grounds that it has to happen at some point given the tensions between its societies, and if they put it off much longer then it'll be all the bloodier when it comes). |
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