YMMV / Greg Egan

• Anvilicious: He does a lot to counter the belief that science is cold and sterile and that one should believe in comforting lies that are known to be such. Yet though he is very capable^note such as in “Oracle” and in the opening scene of “Glory” of showing the pursuit of scientific knowledge as good on its own merits and the best means of human improvement we have, most of the time he neglects this and falls back on just making a strawman of his opponents so cartoonishly evil or superstitious that the reader has no choice but to side with the protagonists instead. Even people who agree with him think this is his greatest weakness.