50 Fantasy & SF books for socialists

[beer good]

Interesting list:

Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read - By China Miéville

Not all of these books are explicitly socialist or anti-socialist, of course, but it does raise the interesting question of just how much we read books through our own ideological/cultural filter, and how works of fiction can take on different meanings and reinterpret real-world issues.

(Also, at least one glaring error; AFAIK, The Master And Margarita didn't get past the censors. It was banned for decades after Bulgakov's death.)

 

[saliotthomas]

It would be interesting to have a list of the ones conservatives should read.Starting with Robert Heinlein Starship trooper,...

 

[Peder]

It might also just of course be possible that conservatives should read the socialist books, and socialists the conservative books. :innocent:

 

[sparkchaser]

It would be interesting to have a list of the ones conservatives should read.Starting with Robert Heinlein Starship trooper,...

That would have been at the top of list too. :lol:

 

[joderu95]

They got all hot & bothered by Crichton's State of Fear too.

 

[Isambard]

How was H.G. Wells absent from the list? He's gotta be one of the more well known socialist authors.

 

[beer good]

How was H.G. Wells absent from the list? He's gotta be one of the more well known socialist authors.

H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
Like a lot of Wells's work, this is an uneasy mixture of progressive and reactionary notions. It makes for one of the great horror stories of all time. A fraught examination of colonialism, science, eugenics, repression, and religion: a kind of fantasy echo of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

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[Isambard]

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Yeah, I'm dumb. lol

Nvm.