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Originally Posted by ardeegee
That's sort of what I was thinking. By "science fiction authors" they seem to mean mostly "military science fiction authors." Every author you mentioned in the first sentence is amongst my favorites-- and (by design) almost all SF I read is "massively, massively left."
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Kurt Vonnegut
Philip K. Dick
Issac Asimov
Edward Bellamy
George Orwell (Anti-Stalinism, pro socialism!)
Gene Roddenberry
the list goes on...
Sci-fi deals a lot with utopias, and politics will inevitably play a part. Bellamy, for instance, envisioned a utopia 100-odd years in the future (10 years ago now) where socialism had made the world a paradise.
Of course, there's just as many conservative utopias to be found as liberal ones.
Generally, though, it seems to be
libertarians and liberals authoring sci-fi. Conservatives seem to be a minority.
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.” --Robert Anton Wilson
Politics change, and sci-fi authors seem to, as well.