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ImAbove Over you from England Since: Jan, 2012
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#1: Jan 17th 2012 at 11:06:14 AM

Hi there. Does anyone have any recommendations for politically-heavy Science Fiction? Thank you.

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Pulsar Since: Apr, 2015
#3: Jan 17th 2012 at 2:36:48 PM

Do you mean science fiction that focuses on politics in the story, or science fiction promoting a particular political agenda?

ImAbove Over you from England Since: Jan, 2012
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#4: Jan 17th 2012 at 4:09:52 PM

The former.

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DomaDoma Three-Puppet Saluter Since: Jan, 2001
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#5: Jan 17th 2012 at 5:00:20 PM

Well, there's always the Dune series in the unlikely event that you haven't read it, and Michael Flynn's Firestar series is both a tract and a book with lots of interesting political maneuvering - he's clearly a pro-space-travel libertarian, but he also writes some damned sympathetic anti-space-travel progressives and lets the lot of them collide.

edited 17th Jan '12 5:00:51 PM by DomaDoma

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MrShine Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#6: Jan 17th 2012 at 6:49:23 PM

All science fiction by Ursula K Le Guin, CJ Cherryh, Isaac Asimov or Frank Herbert. Also China Mieville and Iain Banks, although some people might dislike them for advancing their politics too much in their novels.

And I stupidly forgot Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series. Red Mars is totally awesome, its half about politics and half about engineering.

edited 17th Jan '12 6:50:55 PM by MrShine

Falco Since: Mar, 2011
#7: Jan 17th 2012 at 7:20:57 PM

Heinlein too.

edited 17th Jan '12 7:21:06 PM by Falco

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Sessalisk from Wheeeeeeeee Since: Sep, 2011
#8: Jan 17th 2012 at 7:38:50 PM

Oryx And Crake and The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood are both pretty political.

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MrShine Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#9: Jan 17th 2012 at 7:39:29 PM

Yeah Heinlein too, I thought of him but didnt include him because i think his ideas about politics are mostly wrong.

Falco Since: Mar, 2011
#10: Jan 17th 2012 at 9:16:12 PM

[up]Yeah but disagreeing with his politics actually makes his books kinda interesting (or did to me, anyway). Yes Starship Troopers is a conservative's wet dream, but it helped me define why I didn't like the world he set out and what were my underlying principles (I read it when I was in my teens and I consider it a book that deeply influenced my politics- in a completely different direction to Heinlein).

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