David Brin, The PostmanAlthough I am in no way a Conservative, I've read and enjoyed all of these. The list author says the books "raise questions for conservatives or develop ideas from which conservatives can learn." I find the list and that description a bit confusing, because there are so many science fiction books from which conservatives could learn. Most of them, maybe. After my experiences with conservatives insisting that the Harry Potter books were converting The Kids to witchcraft, I'd argue that conservatives could learn from any book which exercises the imagination.
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Robert E. Howard, Conan stories
H.P. Lovecraft, anything really, but particularly the “Cthulhu cycle”
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
The books are worth reading no matter your political leanings.
HT: SF Signal
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While I had only read 3 off the list I had heard of most of them. The list that inspired the article the 50 must read socialist SiFi and fantasy novels contained many where I had never heard of the authors or novels. It makes me wonder if the list writer was looking for the more obscure or just had weird taste.
ReplyDeletei've got the socialist list written up to publish later. i've read 17 out of the 50. i hadn't heard of a lot of those either. "obscure" seems like a fair description.
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