[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[Mike Ballard]

Gar Lipow wrote:
In the U .S.,  Science Fiction is a sub-genre with a whole of lot
socialists,  S. Brust, Terry Bisson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Maureen F.
McHugh, Gregory Feeley, Eric Flint have all explicity identified
themselves as socialists.  Also I can think of a number who are at
least left-liberals completely devoid of market worship the late
lamented Octavia Butler was at least radical if not socialist. Charles
Stross. Cory Doctorow,  John Barnes, (It would not surprise me of
Corty Doctorow had actually used the S-word, but I canotn find
anything offhand.)

I guarantee that I've left out many times the number of socialists
I've included, not mention the more or less radical non-socialists.
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Mack Reynolds was one of my favourite socialist sci-fi writers.

Mike B)

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Being an active Socialist, about half of Reynolds's stories were for the
misused and down-trodden. His work reflected a suspicionof power. All of these
stories, though usually containing clever and witty satires, focused on a
mis-trust of mono-maniacal groups and what would happen if they gained control
of the world. Maybe SF for Mack meant Socialist Fiction, which, in no small
degree, it is. However, he would laugh at that. Mack's intellect was full
spectrum and he blew hot and cold on various issues at various times. Stories
can become static snapshots that never change and should not be taken as an
absolutely true view of the author. 

A lot of what Reynolds wrote dealt with humor. "It is surprising how little
there is of it (humor) in our genre. I suspect that we take ourselves too
seriously. Possibly, this is as it should be, for the future is a very serious
place. It is either that, or perhaps we will have no future." 

full: http://www.gwillick.com/Spacelight/reynolds.html

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