Bought a bundle of Fading Suns RPG books a while ago and I want to like it, but it kind of makes my flesh crawl.

The premise - a far-future mashup of Warhammer 40k, Dune, and Gene Wolfe done with enough dignity to disguise the worst absurdities - is promising, but there's a horrible sincerity to it that makes me think the authors aren't being ironic about the dangers of science, democracy, and free thought.