207. The Anti-Politics of Sci-Fi

2021-04-16

A lot of sci-fi skirts around substantive questions of politics - is this a coincidence, or is there something about the genre that encourages it?

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A Political History of SF (Raymond, 2014) - http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/sf-history.html

The Skylark of Space, by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20869/20869-h/20869-h.htm

Why “The Martian“ Author Doesn’t Mix Politics With Sci-Fi (Vice, 2019) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Wjz5G8WVg

Our Greatest Political Novelist? (Kreider, 2013) - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/our-greatest-political-novelist

The Libertarian History of Science Fiction (Hill, 2020) - https://quillette.com/2020/06/12/the-libertarian-history-of-science-fiction/

Is Exploration Violent?, by Electric Didact - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDLGT9BEbPM

Sci-Fi Writers Are Imagining a Path Back to Normality (Kirtley, 2019) - https://www.wired.com/2019/03/geeks-guide-sci-fi-future/

Fantasy, science fiction, and politics (China Miéville interviewed by John McDonald) - https://isreview.org/issue/75/fantasy-science-fiction-and-politics

The Engineers and the Political System (Timms, 2017) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-engineers-and-the-political-system/

40 Years of the Prometheus Award (Nicholl, 2019) - https://www.tor.com/2019/04/08/40-years-of-the-prometheus-award/

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