To see him oink about the trailer like that is strange, because going off that idea it doesnt seem like the type of slop he would be into. He just will consoom anything Star Wars or Marvel, won't he? Has he ever actually shared criticisms of any of the films he sees, or does he just see them all in the same way he saw seeing Avengers as being the greatest moment of his life? It just depresses me to think that someone who calls himself an author wouldn't be able to give critique on a work unless that critique involved Pmurt or Nahzees in some inane way. Even most normies could tell you what they liked or disliked about a slop movie.
It's another sign of him objectively being a terrible sci-fi author.
Really good authors of any genre are not just able to be critical of work they like, but critical of their own work.
It's also why it is common that noted authors say that they are embarrassed of their earlier works.
Obviously, with time comes experience, wisdom, and different perspectives.
These authors are not necessarily saying that their earlier works are bad, it is just that now they feel they could have improved upon them.
e.g. Anthony Burgess about a Clockwork Orange, the now MeToo-ed Neil Gaiman and the early Sandman Chapters, even Leo Tolstoy grew to dislike War and Peace.
Patrick on the other hand seems completely unable to see any of his effort as bad.
Even when on the subject his 1.7 GPA during some of those podcasts, he tries to deflect it by saying how his teachers all saw how smart he was.
He extends this to stuff he likes. As in, "I like marvel and star wars, therefore there is No Such Thing As A Bad Star Wars Film."
The little I have bothered to read of his novels, the one featuring the girl on the space station called "Firstname Lastname", most of what I remember is him literally referring to the Cantina moment in the first Star Wars movie to describe the hubbub and diversity of the aliens present on this space station.
That is not only such a lack of personal creativity, presumptive that the reader has seen Star Wars, and arrogantly mistakenly thinking this story is as good as Star Wars, but it also demonstrates his total lack of understanding of how to be a good writer.
A good sci fi writer of popular sci fi, in my opinion, is a writer who can write a novel which any reader can pick up and understand what is happening in the pages of that novel, just on information given within the novel.
Granted, a reference or two to other popular works or cultural touchstones isn't unreasonable, but take semi obscure author, Melvin Burgess's Bloodtide.
A "Young Adult" novel, which means it is for teenagers, but it is fairly compelling and readable for adults.
It is a re-telling of the Volsunga saga set in a near future Cyberpunk-Dystopian London.
It briefly sets up the world, doesn't specifically refer to anything from the Volsunga Saga, as in it doesn't assume the reader is familiar or even has heard of it.
While the sci fi elements are not deeply explained via pseudoscience and it is light on technobabble, there is enough to give the reader an idea of the technology, how it has affected the wider world and what kind of society it is.
Even the Norse mythology derived elements do not depend on a reader's independent frame of reference. They are present, mysterious, and given even enough explanation and hints for the reader to create a picture in their imagination, but not to solidly define the author's interpretation in the reader's mind.
A really good author of this sort can even write a novel which takes place in the middle of their magnum opus long running saga of a dozen books, but it still is an enjoyable read for someone who has never read any of the other novels.
Granted, there are celebrated authors whose books are infamous for this not being the case, Kurt Vonnegut as an example, but that is due to their body of work being deeply self-referential, not pop sci fi referential.
Patrick just isn't that. It is a pitiable shame that he was never content just to be an insurance salesman who managed to get a couple of novels published.
He would be a happier man if he was.
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