[lbo-talk] What are you reading now?

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 9 04:06:54 PDT 2007


--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:


> Kim Stanley Robinson is a he. The Mars trilogy is
> what really returned me
> to reading SF agaon. It's such an amazing radical
> utopia. The new books
> on climate change are good, but they focus on
> Washington, rather than the
> emphasis on constituent power that you find in the
> trilogy. I'm actually
> reading George Schuyler's Black Empire (Schuyler is
> a black
> arch-conservative and anti-communist), which is a
> pulp SF novel printed in
> black newspapers in the 1930's. It's a story about
> a secretive and
> authoritarian black nationalist organization
> decolonizing Africa by force.

Sort of a Black Nationalist version of the Nazi pulp hero what's-his-name, the Voelkish version of Doc Savage?

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