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To: Lazamataz
Isaac Azimov was a far-right conservative...

I'm a fan of Asimov, but he was no conservative.

Some people are hard to place in politics, because they combine libertarian tendencies with "progressive" tendencies.

I am unaware of any mainstream writer from the golden age who fell for communism. but I suspect many were democrats. This era -- 1920-1960 -- was when mainstream writers were kissing Stalin and Castro's boots and glorifying revolution.

H.G. Wells was supposedly a socialist, but he didn't put it in his sci-fi.

112 posted on 01/31/2005 5:05:26 PM PST by js1138
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To: js1138

Laz was being sarcastic.


115 posted on 01/31/2005 5:08:20 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: js1138

Actually, Wells's socialism is pretty evident in The Time Machine, which can be read as a cautionary tale about the gap between the bourgeoise and proletariat, the rich and the poor blah blah blah.


148 posted on 02/01/2005 4:21:38 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Marxism-the creationism of the left)
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To: js1138

Fred Pohl was a communist when he was a teenager, but he quit when Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler. I think, having gone to lots of sci-fi cons in the Chicago area, that fandom skews either to the far left or right.
Gene Wolf is very conservative and I always enjoy talking to him whenever I see him at a con.


151 posted on 02/02/2005 9:06:18 AM PST by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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