[aerovistae]

Hmm.

> My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes and beds.

This is a bit of a turn-off. Sounds like a modern day conservative whining about not being able to say Merry Christmas and people convincing children to destroy themselves with surgery.

And I say this as someone who loved reading Moonraker...

[thomascgalvin]

That quote was written decades ago. It's not a reaction to "woke culture" or any of the right's current bullshit. It's just an author saying he is unapologetically writing books with tough men, hot women, and dumb action. He's admitting, proudly, to creating junk food lit.

[mft_]

Funnily enough, when I read:

> I am not an angry young, or even middle-aged, man. I am not “involved.” My books are not “engaged.”

...I wondered whether, were he writing in 2022, he would have written "My books are not woke"?