(urth) SciFi politics

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 12:56:36 PST 2005


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:52:10 -0500, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I didn't think they were clumsily inserted. I think they were jarring
> because the plurality of SciFi writers are politically liberal.
> 
> Thus, placing favorable views to gun-ownership and supply-side economics in
> the mouth of a very simpathic and (presented as) wise character might have
> caught you unaware if you did not previously know of Wolfe's conservative
> politics.

We must not be reading the same SF: Heinlein, Weber, Niven and/or 
Pournelle - well, I gave up on those two years ago... There is a long and
rich tradition of conservatism in SF.

Which doesn't make it right, of course. 8*)

--Dan'l

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