@fifischwarz@boeken@bookstodon I read KSR’s Red Mars a year or two ago and loved it so much, I keep planning on going back to him, but I haven’t yet. I was sure at the time he had a degree in mechanical engineering or something, but was surprised to learn (from Wikipedia) his first doctoral advisor was Frederic Jameson- the guy Slavoj Zizek and Mark Fisher always talk about