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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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.
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Ha. Read some scifi by the Scottish Authors. Banks, Gibson, MacLeod, Stross...
Not to mention Richard Morgan, too, northern UK but not Scottish.
Left. Massively, massively left. Start MacLeod with
The Cassini Division, by the way,
not The Star Fraction. (Which was published first, but...it's better this way, trust me)
And the best thing about Starship Troopers the movie? The armour has been used in a lot of much better TV series and films, like Firefly