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Left-Wing Science Fiction - PM Press

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Radical Left-Wing Science Fiction - PM Press
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By Eve Ottenberg Counterpunch April 29th, 2022 Despite its boys’ club origins, science fiction long exhibited a leftist streak. Even in the early 1950s, the heyday of white masculine conquest of space and battle with multi-legged monsters and nefarious aliens, there lurked at the margins of the genre alternate views on human forays into the […]
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    Wells, Huxley, Orwells

    K.Dick, Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr. , Roger Zelazny

    Ursula K. LeGuin, Asimov, Heinlein, Micheal Moorcock

    Edit : and Asimov and Heinlein are used as examples of right leaning sci-fi

    Here’s all the name in the article

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      It uses Asimov and Heinlein as examples of right-wing fiction though, so you might want to separate those out.

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        Asimov eventually woke the fuck up, but definitely in the twilight. His early stuff is Americana cringe.

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        Yeah I organize the name roughy by the paragraphs where they appears.

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    I think Kim Stanley Robinson and Charles Stross are rather left wing too.

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      +Cory Doctorow

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    I mean Le Guin is head and shoulders more “left”, although I think that’s an oversimplified view to the point it breaks down a bit

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      Moorcock is an Anarchist, as well.

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