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What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion?
(kbin.social)
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A great many of the "old classics" really aren't very good, IMO. Some of them are downright awful, in fact.
One that comes to mind that has garnered me many downvotes in the past is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I disliked on pretty much every level. The characters were uninteresting, the worldbuilding was bad, the lunar culture made no sense and was an obvious "isn't libertarianism awesome?" author insert, the Earthside baddies were cartoonishly stupid, the military conflict should have never worked out for the Lunarians, and Mycroft was a lazy deus ex machina.
How's that for an unpopular opinion.
You're probably right. I absolutely adored Heinlein, Stranger in A Strange Land and Moon is a Harsh Mistress were probably my favorite books EVER other then Foundation and Dune, but this was also 20 years ago when I was a teenager. I'm scared to read them again since I'm sure they haven't aged well.
"The golden age of science fiction is twelve", as they say.