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Are most Science Fiction authors and fans liberals/leftists?
Posted on 01/31/2005 1:37:19 PM PST by EveningStar
I've been a science fiction fan for decades and it appears to me that the vast science fiction writers and fans are liberals/leftists. Am I imagining this?
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To: atomicpossum
And Michael Crichton has been coming around. :-)
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:12:14 PM PST
by
bootless
(Never Forget - And Never Again)
To: Beowulf9
What a great website! (I support your heroic quest for more voluptuous women)
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:12:20 PM PST
by
Enterprise
("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
To: dfwright
My bad too. I should have caught the sarcasm.Heck, I thought that the name "Lazamataz" was an automatic Sarcasm-Alert!
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:13:19 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: dfwright
To: discostu; Snake65
I know one writer for a fact that is NOT a liberal! Paging Snake65!
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:14:16 PM PST
by
bootless
(Never Forget - And Never Again)
To: grizzly84
Always been a big Frazetta fan, started reading Conan just because of the covers.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:16:10 PM PST
by
discostu
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
To: Lazamataz
Heck, I thought that the name "Lazamataz" was an automatic Sarcasm-Alert!LOL! I'll be sure to add that to my "notes to self" section for future reference. The sad part is that Asimov didn't register as obvious. Roddenberry was just too ripe a plum...
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:16:49 PM PST
by
dfwright
To: bootless
Then there's Johnny Ringo who used to hang out here, not sure when he left or why, good action sci-fi though.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:17:19 PM PST
by
discostu
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
To: EveningStar
Laz was being sarcastic.And, so obviously, that I am embarrassed that I didn't catch it. I need a 5 second delay... :^)
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:18:47 PM PST
by
dfwright
To: EveningStar; Bear_in_RoseBear; Rose in RoseBear
Not this Starship Trooper.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:20:26 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Caution this poster contains 39 Transistors, 78 diodes, and 1776 blown capacitors.)
To: EveningStar
Er, a fan who is far from liberal. I wouldn't be surprised about writers tho'.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:21:42 PM PST
by
k2blader
(It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
To: discostu
My fav is that Egyptian Queen thing. He got a lot of work published in Playboy, his females painted in pretty erotic tones. Maybe a dumb question, but not being a Playboy reader, but wasn't and isn't it still (Playboy) a pretty much a politically liberal magazine?
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:21:52 PM PST
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Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
Heff is about as left as they come, and his daughter (who actually runs the company) is just as far left.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:22:53 PM PST
by
discostu
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
To: discostu; Lazamataz
Cool! And Laz, sorry I didn't get the sarcasm. I know that Roddenberry started off as a cop, so I wasn't sure!
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:24:51 PM PST
by
bootless
(Never Forget - And Never Again)
To: Beowulf9
I do know a sci-fi writer, who did write for a famous sci-fi show, and is liberal to the hilt, as were and are his associates. Their condemnation of the United States more conservative ways of life and religion were a constant target in the show, lambasts laced in and out the plot and disguised amongst symbolic images. That could be Kenneth Johnson, J. Michael Straczynski, or any number of other folks. :)
To: EveningStar
True science fiction by its nature is liberal. Challenging the world of today. However, I believe the guy who wrote Starship Trooper was pretty conservative.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:28:29 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Rumsfeld for President - 2008)
To: EveningStar
I don't think so, any more than other writers and their fans might be...there have been some notable libertarian Sci Fi guys, I think...but yeah, authors and artists tend to be leftists.
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:29:27 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: EveningStar
Not having ever been at a convention, I can't relate; but I have ready literally hundreds of SF novels in my younger days, and met dozens of likeminded SF fans who dismissed fantasy in a heartbeat. Sword and sorcery stuff...
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posted on
01/31/2005 2:30:54 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
To: Sam Cree
I am familiar with some of the more libertarian and conservative writers like Heinlein, Niven, and Pournelle. Koontz is probably in that group too.
To: Publius6961
I'm not a fan of S&S either.
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