Thread: Please recommend Meaningful Sci-Fi
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Old 02-26-2021, 02:27 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by hildea View Post
Do you include alternative history in scifi? I just finished Jo Walton's triology starting with "Farthing", in a UK which negotiated a peace with Nazi Germany in 1940, and slides slowly but surely into fascism. Chilling.

Some classics:
Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale"
Octavia Butler's "Kindred" (time travel, so may or may not fit your definition of scifi)
I second these two books. Well worth reading.
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