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Originally Posted by dorino
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.
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I'd like to claify that Orwell was not pro socialist, nor was he a science fiction writer, he was more in line with the anarcho syndacilists and he saw in socialism (at least organised socialism at the time) the same dangers as he saw in communism, stalinism etc. His only work that edges near to science fiction is 1984, but it so transcends all the restrictions of genre, I don't believe it deserves that name. Just as Animal Farm is not a 'children's book', 1984 is not 'science-fiction'. Orwell was a great writer and there endeth that story, you can't lump him in with people like Asimov and Dick, that's an insult to his capability. It's like putting James Joyce in a list with Maeve Binchy. *shudder*