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Project Hail Mary is a Male Pattern Fantasy
Published 4 months, 1 week ago
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“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. You know it, don’t you?
You’ve seen it on a Breaking Bad poster, or perhaps you vaguely recall it from a GCSE English syllabus you ignored because you were too busy wondering if a lightsaber could, in theory, be powered by a sufficiently large alkaline battery.
It’s a poem about a massive, male ego, crumbling in a desert.
It’s a poem about the fantasies of men.
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Men who are, as I speak, vibrating with a very specific, localised form of excitement. “Finally,” we the men cry, “Finally, we are getting Hard Science Fiction in the cinema!”
Hard SF. Defined as a narrative subgenre preoccupied with technical accuracy and the rig