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
Hail Martin Septim!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
Heinlein too.
edited 17th Jan '12 7:21:06 PM by Falco
"You want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed." - Emily Wong.Oryx And Crake and The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood are both pretty political.
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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).

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