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Originally Posted by emellaich
Similarly, Baen's books have quite a range here. Some of the Heinlein stuff leans much more libertarian. Weber really mixes things up: a monarchy, capitalism, and personal responsibility with duels and all their consequences. In his Honor Harrington, the "peoples republic" is theoretically democratic, but its actually the most restrictive. Flint, promotes the power of the people and he's a long time Socialist, but he still uses the military and conquest to pave the way. So, Baen has a lot of guns, swords and stuff and a lot of fighting. However, I would not necessarily paint Baen universally as 'right-wing'.
Finally, I do recognize that original statement implied that only some of Baen's stuff was right-wing -- I'm just sharing my thoughts and agreement that there is a wide range to the positions that can lead to guns, wars, and fighting and that its not just a right-wing position.
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Oh, I don't mind guns, and I actually really liked the Empire of Man series which is chock full of them. It's just that know that some of Baen's authors sometimes get a little, er,
strange in some of their books (John Ringo...), and most of the ones that do tend to write military sci-fi and/or be somewhere on the right-wing side of things. I don't think Baen as a whole is right-wing, and I don't think that liking guns or having a lot of guns in your book makes you/it a right-wing thing.
So we agree there!