>But Asher says he’s not interested in sending any sort of message in his fiction. “I just wrote it as I saw it,” he says. “I’ve never thought that much about it. My aim is to tell a story and to entertain.”
That's what political writers using entertainment to push a political message always say in interviews.
>He’s more outspoken on Twitter, where he regularly posts about politics. He says that social media has made him acutely aware of just how unwelcome his views are in the overwhelmingly liberal world of science fiction, to the extent that he simply avoids science fiction conventions altogether.
>But Asher says he’s not interested in sending any sort of message in his fiction. “I just wrote it as I saw it,” he says. “I’ve never thought that much about it. My aim is to tell a story and to entertain.”
That's what political writers using entertainment to push a political message always say in interviews.
>He’s more outspoken on Twitter, where he regularly posts about politics. He says that social media has made him acutely aware of just how unwelcome his views are in the overwhelmingly liberal world of science fiction, to the extent that he simply avoids science fiction conventions altogether.