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- From: zebee@wattle.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
- Newsgroups: aus.sf
- Subject: Re: Political Science Fiction
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:45:52 GMT
- Organization: The University of Adelaide
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- mwp@iconix.oz.au (Michael Paddon) writes:
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- >In <dyfl.726473285@phobos> dyfl@kbs.citri.edu.au (Daniel Lam) writes:
- >>I once heard a talk where the speaker said that science fiction can
- >>be roughly classified politically as either libertarian (e.g. Robert
- >>Heinlein, Vernor Vinge) or socialist (e.g. H.G. Wells).
-
- >How about right wing (eg. Jerry Pournelle)? There's a growing
- >body of SF that espouses a political spectrum ranging from imperialist
- >to facist. This is usually dressed up as military SF.
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- I tend to see that as "wish-fulfillment escapism" for men, in the same
- way that Marilyn Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey are wish-fulfillment
- escapism for women.
-
- Not to say that people of both sexes don;t enjoy them, but they seem to
- be "men's stuff" and "women's stuff".
-
- I can't stand Pournelle, as he seems to think that the world would be
- perfect if only it was run by the US Marines.
- i
- One good adventure/semi-military author is Lois McMAster Bujold, whose 5
- books dealing with the Barryar society (Shards of Homour, Barrayar,
- Warrior's Apprentice, Brothers in Arms and somthing Infinity) are well
- written, intelligent and funny.
-
- She is one of the few authors I consistently re-read.
-
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