50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read
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jondwhite wrote:
From that list I’d recommend Bulgakov and Zamyatin. I hated Jack London’s Iron Heel when I read it many, many years ago but it was just after I’d read Robert Barltrop’s biography of London, and no doubt my opinion was coloured by Barltrop disclosure that London was a racist.I’ll probably read it again one of these days.
There are some works I’d include on the list, such as E M Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ and John Christopher’s ‘Tripods’ quadrilogy. And if they qualify as sci-fi (which they probably don’t, although they have some sci-fi elements), Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and Anna Bowman Dodd’s ‘ The Republic of the Future’.
I’ve read only 7 of them (Bellamy, Anatole France, Ursula LeGuin, Jack London, William Morris, Marge Piercy, Oscar Wilde). Does this score of 14% mean I’m a philistine?
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