Reading what you want.

With all the identity politics, outrage merchants, drama swirling hurricanes, what does that leave readers with? Well as far as I am concerned, it means:

• Questing! Find the things you love. Promote them so other genre readers can finds the precious.
• If its not on the shelves, make it! #SuperheroSpaceOpera! Gonna blend all the things I love into one series. Babylon 5, Lensmen, John Carter of Mars, Uplifted/Space Animals, Green Lantern type cosmic adventures, Advanced Space Earth, Lazer Guns! Action! Adventure! Atlantis, Area 51....Flying Saucers! A dash of Magic! Melting the Ice Queen! Lovable side characters. Those are not Mulder and Scully Grays!
• Not Giving two Damns Worth on who is writing. Fun pew pew stories? I am there.  
• Cosmic Horrors? Go for it. Space Opera? Go for it. Hard Sci fi? Go for it. Onward!
• Big Honking Mechs.
• Giving Fantasy more Love.
• Reading more this 2020.
• Escaping the 24 Hr News Cycle.
• More PC gaming.
• More Doggos. In SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
• Planetary Adventures
• More "Choose your Own" Adventures. Some even make more on kindle nowadays.
• Awards aren't the end all be all of a good book or series.

At this point I don't even give a frack about tribal warfare. I'm gonna read what I want and write what I want. Share what I care about. 2020 is going to be epic. Join me and find more fun cosmic adventures to read.

Jam out to retro 80s fun:

Read da Books, Love da Books. The comics and movies too. Especially if its not trying to preach anything but reader's entertainment. That's my biased preferences. But if you have to put anything in the books or medium that has politics, make it tongue and cheek. Or lampshade everyone. Don't just indulge your own preferences as a writer or reader.

An example of what I avoid when reading for entertainment:

On the battlefields of America, even our children will have to fight.
In his most powerful novel to date, acclaimed author Craig DiLouie presents a near future in which America is entrenched in civil war.
After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war. Orphaned by the fighting and looking for a home, 10-year-old Hannah Miller joins a citizen militia in a besieged Indianapolis.
In the Free Women militia, Hannah finds a makeshift family. They'll teach her how to survive. They'll give her hope.
And they'll show her how to use a gun.
"An instant classic that will join the ranks of dystopian futures that at times feel all too real." - Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today Bestselling Author

Because its a thin allegory of "OH NOS TRUMP!" OH NOS R VS D! 

Yet another 24/hr news cycle dystopian book of "Well that looks like the writer isn't hiding or masking their own biases very good" story. I'd be just as annoyed if someone did an alt Earth were Hilliary and Trump were on opposite sides of a civil war. Because its our own stupid current year politics when I just want fracking entertainment. That's it. If I want the news. Ill go searching for it.

That shit? Right there? The quickest way for me to nope out of any book. Because I use books and comics to escape this fracking BS. In any event. That's my slight aside for today. Now back to the real stuff. Finding more books to share.

In addition: If you are going heavy on the politics, make it an actual Allegory. A mishmash of political ideas you agree with and disagree with. It's why classics like Animal Farm and 1984 are still around. Sure, did they reference some real effects/people? Yea but it wasn't a whisper thin strawman of whatever was going on currently. It's why I don't give a crap about woke shit anymore. They are crying wolf so bad all the time that when something genuinly happens? Regular people like me wont give two iotas of a damn.

Because you made this the end all be all of everything and I am tired. So yeah, lets get back to something more fun.