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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I'm a right-ish kind of guy, so their political persuasion doesn't alarm me any. (but it wouldn't bother me even if they were outright communists, as long their books are well written) I do notice though that Science fiction authors tend to be more conservative politically than not. I wonder why that is.
I have to laugh at the political transformation between Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and that abominable movie! Why make the movie if you are going to change the whole point? You don't need a plot or ideas to show tits and monsters.
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There a quite a few interviews with Paul Verhoeven, the director of Starship Troopers, where he explains that at least one motivation of his was to rub away the veneer of the Heinlein book and show the pro-fascist ideology that lay beneath the novel (deference to power, unquestioning patriotism and the like). Whilst doing this he also wanted to bring in the audience with lots of violence, gratutitous nudity and fast action so that by the end you were cheering for exactly the wrong side. It was, in a roundabout way, a statement on how easy it is to fall into the mindset of the fascist. It's understandable when you learn that Verheoven was a child during the occupation of Holland.
In any case, I believe you're right about the right-leaning aspects of science fiction. It's one of the reasons I stopped reading the genre early on. It's altogether baffling that fiction about what might be possible leans toward ideologies that are most resistent to change.