Robert Heinlein. I love some of the basic worldbuilding elements, I love the whole Manifest Destiny across the galaxy thing, the life extension, it all just feels like a classic American fable, but sci fi.

But, well, you can probably start seeing the conflict there too. We’re just not as naive as we once were. Well, most of us anyways. But that quintessential American post-WW2 optimism from decades ago just shines through all the misogyny and exploitation, and just creates this horrifying milieu… I love it. And I hate it. Simultaneously, as I’m reading it.

Time Enough For Love in particular. Whoooboy did that book not age well.